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Only two of Columbia's sports have been paying propositions so far this year, according to a partial report submitted by the graduate manager to the athletic association. In spite of a very heavy initial expense accompanying the return of football to Columbia last year, the gridiron game proved profitable, although the entire cost of erecting stands, fences, and of altering the playing field, were charged against the season's account. The other profitable sport is rifle shooting, adopted again this year after two years of suspension...
...seven hundred athletes who come from colleges scattered over the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Harvard extends the heartiest reception. Present conditions have caused the track to become the largest and most representative meeting ground for the students of all colleges. In no other sport or academic activity do so many men from different colleges gather to compete in general games. For this reason it is a great privilege for Harvard to receive these athletes as her guests...
...Yale University Athletic Association has been admitted to membership in the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, and in future Yale athletes in all branches of sport will be able to compete in the championships of the Metropolitan association. At various times Yale's sub-athletic association have held membership in the association, but the institution has never been represented in the governing body of amateur sports in this district by its University Athletic Association...
...nine of them as here given. The three questions asked each were as follows: Number of men in senior class going to the University, Yale and Princeton respectively; number of men in senior class who had won their letters, going to these three institutions; and college choice of major sport captains...
...choice of captains of major sport teams in preparatory schools is also overwhelming for the University. In next year's Freshman class there will be enough school football captains to compose a complete football team, with one substitute, providing each man could play a different position. There will also be eight baseball, five hockey, five crew, and four track captains. Yale will receive seven baseball, five football, three track, one hockey, and two crew captains, while Princeton gets three football, and only one each of baseball, crew, hockey and track captains...