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Statistics compiled from the managers' lists show that a total of 1137 men engaged in some from of athletics this fall. This is an increase of 144 over last year's total of 993. A slight gain is recorded in every sport except tennis in which case the total fell from 149 to 112, but this is at best only an approximate estimate deduced from the singles entries in the fall tournament. This might indicate that there is a tendency towards participating in some organized sport rather than developing individual play. Track shows the largest gain with a total...
This evening a number of men will be given a chance to show their worth, and although hockey is a sport that cannot ever be played well at the beginning of the season, nevertheless a substantial improvement over the playing in the B. A. A. game is hoped for. Reserved seats at $1 and 75 cents each, and admission seats at 50 cents each, may be obtained at the Arena...
...ones. The opinions of several leading basketball authorities were published in the News on Tuesday on the reasons for the perceptibly waning interest in the game at Yale, and the prospects for awakening enthusiasm were discussed. When Harvard, always Yale's warmest rival, abandoned basketball as an intercollegiate sport, the interest at New Haven fell in consequence...
...Tuesday morning, Dr. Endicott Peabody, of Groton School, will speak on "American and English Ideals of Sport." Dr. Naysmith, one of the first men interested in basketball, will give a talk on that subject. The third speaker, Dr. Ehler, of the University of Wisconsin will speak on some phase of college athletics. The afternoon session will be given over to reports and in the evening Dr. E. H. Nichols '86 and Dr. Young of Cornell will both talk on the subject of "Summer Baseball...
...charge of the swimming and the rest will be under the direction of the various instructors at the Gymnasium. The class is intended primarily for those who have had little training in athletics, its object being to promote all around physical development, rather than to prepare for any particular sport...