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...reform, which was projected last winter, called for a decisive cut in all schedules, limited the varsity football season to five games with traditional rivals only, confined all training tables to the College dining halls, and barred all pre-season practice. According to Mr. Farmer, the board of athletic control only discussed the project when it was submitted, and decided that as they were not willing to adopt all of the recommendations, they would vote merely to receive the report only as a guide for the future. The corporation also accepted the report, but did not vote its adoption. Assurance...
...Yale varsity squads, including football, will be much smaller, do less, cost less, omit pre-season practice, scouting, intersectional games, special training tables. The football team will play five games instead of seven. Like a leaking dirigible, Yale's great athletic plant will gradually deflate, will be cut up, blown up, to become...
After a month of indoor practice, the eight Freshmen who had been selected by Coach Harry Cowles for pre-season training on the courts of the New Indoor Athletic Building played outside yesterday for the first time this season. A tournament is now in progress, in which about 90 aspirants are entered, and from this group Coach Cowles will choose ten or 12 more players. These men, together with the first eight, will form the 1935 squad, and by a series of elimination matches within the squad the six men who will make up the first team will be selected...
...more for whetting the baseball appetite of the public than for conditioning players, have been starting a few days earlier every year. This season John McGraw created a shrewd sensation by taking his New York Giants to Los Angeles instead of San Antonio. There, last week, they played a pre-season series against the Chicago Cubs, which Philip K. Wrigley inherited from his father and which trains at Wrigley-owned Catalina Island. Later the Giants lost a night game to the Hollywood Stars...
...definite itinerary for the annual spring trip of the Club was given out it was intimated that the vacation tour would make western Ohio its objective. Following the singing in connection with Class Day and Commencement exercises the Club will disband for the season. There will be no pre-season appearance of the Club this year, corresponding to the reception for President Hoover given at the Gardiner Museum last summer...