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...sport calling out the greatest number of men was football, with 365 names enrolled. This is an increase of 19 men over last year's mark, in spite of the fact that the Haughton Cup series was cancelled. Track showed a total of 247 aspirants as against 178 for last fall. The largest increase was in the tennis tournaments, with 252 participants, a gain of 105 over last year's mark. The decrease in soccer may be laid to the fact that no inter-dormitory series was held this season. The detailed statistics follow...
Princeton, N. J., December 10, 1915.--A new plan of election of major sport managers at Princeton has been approved by the Senior Council, which combines the elements of popular election and competition. According to the new plan the class from which the manager is to come will elect four of its members to compete for the managership in question. The competition will last through one season, at the conclusion of which a committee consisting of the captain, coach, and manager, and the General Treasurer of the Athletic Association, is to select the university assistant manager and a Freshman manager...
These rather dull winter days, before the hockey season for all is well under way, offer an excellent opportunity to interest the sedentary student in boxing. Although once flourishing, this exercise has long languished as a competitive sport. Yet there are professional coaches in the Gymnasium ready to give instruction in it. Why cannot a competitive series of matches be instituted, to seduce the inert undergraduate from his hibernation, and to add zest to the aimless work of the lonely exerciser in the Gymnasium? Medals given to winners of the various classifications would add inducement; limited rounds and heavy gloves...
There is no need to urge the value of boxing as exercise; nor should any man look askance at the sport from its association with the professional ring. Ex-President Roosevelt found it his most valuable exercise in college. Both his physique and his vocabulary were invigorated...
...unanimity shown at the meeting tonight, is keen indication that popular sentiment is strongly in favor of absolute clarity in the management of athletics in general, which presages well for the future of sport at New Haven