Word: minor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When one considers the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones, no fair-minded critic will question the right of Cornell's athletes to rank first this year. Yale and Pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year, and when it is considered that Cornell, had some claim to the baseball championship as well, which is here awarded to Princeton, it may be stated that Cornell's 1911 record is just a little bit superior to anything ever done by either Pennsylvania or Yale...
Yale Strong in Minor Sports...
...points by winning the championship in golf, shooting, gymnastics and tieingfor the tennis honors and winning the swimming and water- polo titles, two sports which are classed as one. In all of these sports they have had considerable competition, but the relative importance of the minor to the major sports is such that Yale would probably have given all of them for one championship in the major...
Columbia did about as was expected in basketball by winning the intercollegiate championship. Only twice since the organization of this association have the Columbians lost the title. Both times the victor was Pennsylvania. Columbia's failure to make good in any of the minor sports was somewhat of a surprise for the reason that the New Yorkers pay very little attention to the major sports, and since they dropped football they have been concentrating on the minors...
...Floyd '11 on the thirty-sixth annual meet of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association held on Soldiers Field May 26 and 27 shows an increase in returns of more than $1200 over any previous meet. Athletes and trainers attending the meet said that it seemed as if every minor detail was provided for. The credit for this is due to Manager Floyd, who had the advantage of the experience of J. D. Leland '09, who made a record managing the meet two years...