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Intercollegiate track championships, far more than Poughkeepsie boat races or post-season football games, are a test of the legend, carefully nourished at its source, that California athletes are superior to those produced by Eastern colleges. Superficially, it does not seem to be a fair test. Only three California colleges?Stanford, Southern California, California?sent teams to the I. C. A. A. A. A.* meet at Philadelphia last week to compete against 31 Eastern colleges. Actually, the excuses of Eastern coaches?that all the best Pacific Coast athletes go to one of these three, that the climate permits all-year...
...from Field (London sporting weekly) to show that British university sports, reputed to be less overemphasized than collegiate sports in the U. S., actually require more of the students' time & energy. In addition to regular intercollegiate cricket matches, the Field said there was an annual average of 14 post-season matches, some as late as mid-July. The average number of events on teams' schedules was given: cross-country, 12; association football (soccer), 20; rugby, 28; golf, 20; hockey, 25; lacrosse, 15 ; swimming, 12. Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over...
...Dame 27, Southern California 0. Getting up speed for their charity game with Army, the Navy plungers slammed through the Penn line, tossed passes for long gains. Navy 26, Penn 0. A 76-yd. march in the last three minutes almost brought New York University a tie in their post-season charity game, but Colgate blocked the kick. Colgate 7, N. Y. U. 6. North Carolina's punting quarterback, Johnny Branch, held Duke at bay, but that was not all his team had to do. The scoreless tie played in the mud gave Duke the State championship, since North...
...committee, appointed by Mayor Curley for the purpose of investigating the possibility of a post-season football game between Harvard and Boston College for charity, is expected to confer with President Lowell today...
Such a meeting, according to an agreement between Harvard and Yale that neither team is to play a post-season game, rests in the hands of the presidents of the respective universities. W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics in the University, refused to comment on the possibilities of such a contest and said that this would be for President Lowell to decide. It is, however, highly improbable that a post-season game will be played...