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That rowing is one of the most expensive sports and at the same time one which brings in small receipts is evidenced by the report of the graduate dirrector of the Columbia University rowing assocation. He states that over $2700 is still owed by that university toward the payment of expenses incurred during last spring's successful season, and asks the student body to come to the aid of the athletic association in the payment of the debt, in order to assure the continuance or rowing as an organized sport...
...year 1914 among college athletic teams has shown no great advantage of one college over any other. In many branches of sport, the various institutions have been so closely matched that it has been very difficult to determine to whom the championship should be awarded. This is so true of the past intercollegiate baseball season that no award has been made. The title of champion in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse is given to those who lead their respective leagues, while in track, swimming, gymnastics, cross-country, golf, fencing, and wrestling the results of the intercollegiate tournaments are used...
...college won more than one major sport championship, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton each gaining this honor. Cornell leads in the number of highest honors won with four wins and one tie to its credit, Harvard comes next with two wins, and two shared with Princeton in golf and tennis, Columbia third with two wins and one tie, and Princeton fourth with one championship and two ties. It is interesting to note that these are also the four colleges to win major sport titles. Johns Hopkins, New York University, Pennsylvania, and Yale each have one highest honor to their credit...
...University may be proud of the advances which have been made within the last few years in every branch of athletics. It must, however, be admitted that one major sport has not made proportionate progress when considered in relation to the general development. In this field there is by no means the same individual distinction nor collective recognition, as one finds in other branches of athletics. Track arouses no such excitement as is occasioned by all the other major sports. But the fact remains that track is a major sport, and as such, counts heavily in the general athletic average...
...much opportunity for improvement by dint of plain, hard work. Moreover, no time is so propitious for such work as are the long, empty winter months. The whole paraphanalia of organized athletics is at the disposal of the candidate. He will receive careful and scientific training. In no other sport will he be assured of so certain a return for work done faithfully...