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...Yale, as at the University, all intercollegiate athletics have been given up, spot for sport's sake becoming more evident. The baseball team, after winning five straight victories, wound up its season with the election of R. F. Snell, 1918, regular second baseman on last year's team, as captain for next year. Intramural contests have been started however, and the first game between the college and Sheffield was played Saturday. With the election of J. D. Nagel, 1918, a pole-vaulter, as next year's track captain, the official season of the track team was brought to a close...
...that college that athletics should not be entirely given up. The board will make its stand known tomorrow. Regardless of its decision, the track and baseball coaches are to be retained and opportunity given to those students who desire to go on with a certain amount of outdoor sport...
...quarter past three this morning, less than 15 minutes after the passage of the war resolution by the House, Dean Briggs, acting with the power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal athletics at the University. The Dean has recently conferred with Professor Conwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan, of Princeton, who were acting in a similar capacity for their respective universities, and a joint decision to abolish intercollegiate athletics when war should be declared was reached. It is understood that they have already...
...practice this spring. Arrangements had been completed to hold the practice under the guidance of Coach L. H. Leary '05, and it also had been hoped that P. D. Haughton '99 would have been able to give a few days to the squad. Football is the first sport of the University to be called off because of the threatened outbreak of hostilities...
Subcommittees will be appointed by the Graduate Track Committee to look into and suggest improvements in other matters pertaining to the sport...