| Show I I SONS oi Of Ell j GOING DOWN GRADE CRADE IN All Aft SPORT Blue Men Hen Losing Prestige on Gridiron Diamond and TracK What is the matter with ith Yale Yale's 5 athletics ath ath- Tho The question is not only being asked at New Haven but in every evory quarter of the world where the sons of Old Eli Eliare aro are to be bo found Hockey Hocko and basketball are aro tho the two great eat winter sports at tho the big bit colleges and in both of these games Yale is 19 is being being being be be- ing represented by inferior players Tho hockey team is tho the poorest that has hns worn the blue for years Tho The New v NewHaven Haven algro aggregation won the championship champion on ship last year Tear but no one believes that Captain Herons Heron's mon men will finish much better than fourth this year y Tho The basketball situation is just as ns bad Captain Cushman faces s tho the hardest proposition that a Yale Yalo leader has been called upon to meet in many manya a R year Not only does docs a tail end cud finish fin fin- jab ish stare Yalo Yale O out Ot t of countenance but the tho prospects of sound defeats from minor institutions is causing the tho bas ha basketball leader no end of sleepless nights It is not only in in the tho minor minor sports that Yalo Yale has lo lost t h he 1 prestige Tho The football football football foot foot- ball t team am fell before Harvard last fall The crew was also beaten bv hr thin tho Cambridge Cam Cani- bridge ci eight ht Yale did n riot t win the intercollegiate track championship p and no ono one has advanced l tho claim m that tho the blue hail had the best college o baseball team teim Something is is surely surel wrong tHon at New Kew Haven and unless the tho Eh Ell students students students stu stu- dents tal take o tho the bull ball by tho the horns Yalo's Yale's athletic prestige will m bo be a th thing IlL of tho the I pat past The story ston that was printed printer a a. week ago ao regarding the interference of fraternity fra fra- men ilien in Yale Yalo athletics is believed be be- by ninny man manto to bo be tho r real al root of if tho the evil ovil which is slowly but surely sureh- killing all kinds of sport at New Now Haven Fraternity interference is an anold anold old oM story ston at Harvard ara an and although societies societies so so- o- o have havo hail had their hands banns on tho throat thront of Yalo Yalo's s 's 5 athletics for years Years the success of New cw Haven teams team in jn in former seasons has in a t measure h hidden the evil ovil With Yalo Yale losing iu in every branch of sports sport tho the undergraduates s sand and apri tho thio alumni at New n lra aro are beginning be he ginning to realize at nt last that th something something some some- thing must be he dono done or Yale will bo ho heI numbered no lon longer er among the tho bi big athletic ath letic colleges of the country countr II I I |
