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...time to formulate a definite general policy regarding the baseball and track teams and the crew. In none has it been decided whether meets with outside colleges will be arranged and whether definite university teams will be organized or not. At present there is material for fairly strong major-sport teams, and it is believed that hockey, basketball, swimming and water polo will also have successful seasons. No definite plans for hockey have been announced, but the basketball and swimming teams are already under way. At Princeton the water polo squad has just been organized and it is expected that...
...organized by the Athletic Association, I should be glad to promote the formation of one this year, especially as the men who acted as officers last year have all left College. Under present conditions it is certainly advisable that as many men as possible take an interest in this sport...
Last season candidates for the rifle team were not called out until February 20, when a series of matches with other colleges was arranged, but the advent of the war caused the abandonment of the sport. Two years ago the University rifle team was a member of the National Rifle Association, a league of those colleges which had teams in the field. The colleges were divided into classes according to the calibre of their teams, and the University was put in class C when the sport was first organized. The difficulty with this was that Yale, Princeton, and Cornell were...
...leading interests, sport and war preparation, continue to wedge their way into the glossed pages of the Illustrated. The current number affords a photographic record of the latest Harvard disaster--the defeat of the Freshman team by Yale--but alongside such a record are pictures of the same Freshman team whipping the Tigers. These latter were taken by an enterprising staff photographer, who made the trip to New Jersey on the hunch that victory snapshots would be obtainable only there...
...this whom we regarded as mere theorists a few years ago would lead us to believe no small changes is coming. The above three changes would not be opposed by the members of teams themselves. Their effect will take away none of the enjoyment or the value of sport. They will simply remove collegiate athletics a little farther from the realms of professionalism toward which they have drifted much too far, Under the new regime we may not turn out soon perfectly-drilled machines, but we shall turn out as physically fit man who, in addition, have a purer love...