Word: favors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Entries have been made from all of the eight universities which form the Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association--Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, New York University, Haverford and Rutgers--and the meet promises to be close. The chances, however, favor New York University which has won the meet for several years. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be given in the six regular events and three special cups will be given for first, second and third places for the all-round championship...
...chances seem to favor the Senior team, which is made up of the same men who fenced for 1907 for the past two years, winning both championships. Both the Sophomore and the Freshman teams have been handicapped through lack of material, mainly on account of scholarship qualifications. The Junior team has been doing fairly good work, and should take second place in the tournament...
This policy would have the following advantages: (1) it would fix responsibility for economy and for the assignment of aid to the teams where it belongs, with the graduate manager and Athletic Committee; (2) it would avoid discrimination in favor of the sports that happen to draw large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more...
...President regrets that athletics have become so largely the business of college life. Mr. Reid frankly takes "the football business" as his subject. His argument in favor of an organized and salaried coaching system is thoroughly sound provided we admit his premise that football now ought to be a business. He explains what has been done, and outlines what remains to be done. If we are to succeed, we must give up all notion of a desultory scheme of amateur coaching. "We did not start out," he says, "with the expectation that after only two years of work...
...lost six games. The development of the University team has been very erratic, but marked by success in the later games. Harvard will suffer from the loss of Broun, while Kinney will be unable to play for Yale. Although both teams expect a hard match, the chances favor Yale...