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...whole, poor candidates and, onn the whole, poor teams, far below the standard set by her major sport teams. Yale and Princeton have been winning with remarkable regularity. So it has been suggested that a Minor Sports Club be formed, membership being awarded to wearers of minor sports insignia. "The chief gain," to quote the Crimson, "would be a coordination to the end that all lesser sports be pervaded with a spirit now very much lacking...
This hardly seems to solve the problem. The Varsity letter in itself is a big incentive and a big reward for playing on major sport teams. Its value is not enchanted by also bringing with it the membership in the Varsity Club. The insignia awarded for minor sports is, after all valuable in a much lesser degree. There are few who go out for minor sports to win the insignia as an honor to be worn. The incentive is more in the abstract honor of being on the team and in getting the exercise. The privileges of a Minor Sport...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee held recently, announcement was made of the award of insignia to the first and second University football teams, the Freshman football team, the University and 1924 soccer teams, and the squash racquets team...
...carry out its plans, the council appointed a committee to see about a training table, the awarding of insignia to members of the various teams, and to formulate plans to establish a minor sport club in the University...
...following men were awarded the insignia of the 1923 Tennis Team: Morris Duane, of Philadelphia; LeRoy Frost, of Nyack, New York; John David Farnham, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Martin Grabau, of Buffalo, New York; George Chewer Guild, of Roxbury; Robert Walter Hoskins, of Hartford, Connecticut; Gerald Felix Warburg, of New York City; and John Robert Melish, of Brooklyn, New York (manager...