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...Aviation as college sport" is the plea made by Mr. Laurence L. Driggs, President of the American Flying Club, the organization which conducted the recent New York-Toronto and transcontinental races. Predicting that in no very distant time colleges will officially take up aviation as a recognized sport, Mr. Driggs urges that "in the meantime every encouragement should be given these enthusiastic airmen of the colleges who hold their first aeroplane contest on May 8 at Mineola, Long Island...
...Coming College Sport...
...first basketball game between Harvard and Yale for more than 10 years the Yale freshmen on Saturday proved their superiority by the overwhelming score of 63-14. Their greater experience and the fact that basketball, as a major sport at Yale, creates more competition for the team, showed clearly in the relative playing of the two teams. The Harvard team fought hard, but their best efforts were unavailing, and after the first five minutes it was clearly a case only of how low they could keep the score...
...Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 7.30 o'clock, the Freshman basketball team will play Yale 1923. The Freshmen have won three of their six outside games and have a record of six straight victories over the upperclass teams. At Yale, however, where basketball is a major sport the 1923 organization has had an unusually successful season. They have won all of their nine games, mostly by overwhelming scores and have amassed 348 points to their opponents' 149. The game tonight promises to be the fastest and best played seen at the University this year...
...recommend that a change be made in the rule regarding the kicking of a goal after a touchdown. According to this change, which was recommended by the University football committee, the goal after a touchdown will be kicked from scrimmage formation, as a drop-kick or placement kick. Sport writers in New York expect this proposal to be adopted by the intercollegiate committee...