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...extension of lacrosse to institutions where, up to the present, it has not been played as an intercollegiate or recognized sport was given great impetus at the fifteenth annual meeting of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, which was held recently in New York. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following members of the League: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Stevens, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Hobart and Johns Hopkins...
Although lacrosse is not yet included on the list of sports which will take place in the Olympic games at Antwerp this year, the intercollegiate League intends to use its influence to place it there if possible. A committee consisting of Roy Taylor, J. T. McGovern, and Cyrus C. Miller, was appointed to take the matter up with the American Olympic Committee. The ancient American Indian game has long been Canada's most distinctive field game, and in England where it is likewise popular, no opposition is expected if the American Committee decides to introduce the sport on the Olympic...
...supply an ear trumpet to any of the amateur athletes of this country, and the response from the punters of the pigskin was close to 100 per cent. How well they played the game is evidenced by the fact that about half of the men connected with sport who today sleep over yonder are football...
Abundant material and great enthusiasm for every branch of sport, major and minor, is the report from the authorities at Princeton. Although the interest in minor sports now occupies the attention of most of the men, the athletic directors have found time to give consideration to plans for the major sports of the coming year, and preparations are well under way to turn out in 1920 the best teams in football, track, and baseball, and the fastest crew that Princeton has seen in many years...
Here is their opportunity. At tonight's meeting plans for the revival of the sport will be discussed--plans which include a strenuous schedule on the boards, a winter carnival in March, and weekly handicap competitions designed primarily for the benefit of novices More candidates must come out, with 400 reporting daily at Cornell compared to the scant fifty here. It is needless for the Crimson to effort the undergraduates to support the track team in its laughable efforts to turn the oldest of major sports back on sound footing...