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Statistics compiled yesterday by the CRIMSON show that there are 345 candidates for the four major spring sports of the University, as compared with 306 and 200 candidates at Yale and Princeton respectively. Of this number, crew, with 177 oarsmen, attracts over half, baseball is second with 71, track third with 67, and football last with 30. Crew likewise leads at Princeton, where 107 men are rowing, and track and baseball second and third with 47 and 36 respectively. At Yale, baseball is in the lead with 135 candidates, followed by track with 96, and crew with only 75. Neither...
...statistics for the University are of interest in connection with the question of compulsory athletics, because they show how large a proportion of the undergraduates are now taking part in some major sport. Including Freshmen, there are 513 candidates for crew, football, track, and baseball. The last registration figures of the College show an enrollment of 2016 men, of whom 288 are unclassified, and consequently ineligible to represent the University in outside contests. Therefore 29 per cent., or almost one out of every three eligible undergraduates, is attending regular practice in one of the four major sports. When this total...
These figures compare favorably with both Princeton and Yale. At the former college, 27 per cent, of the upperclassmen are candidates for a major sport team, and the figure is slightly lower for Yale...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...
...other reason for the old major sport situation has not yet been entirely removed, nor is it as easy to cope with as the first. It is none other than that old bogy, the apathy of many college men toward athletics, and a non-realization of the real and permanent good to be obtained from any form of physical sport steadily pursued. The situation in this regard is much better than formerly, but there is still much room for further improvement. That by far the greatest interest in sports is taken this year by Freshmen is a good sign...