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RECREA TION. 



stroke, and his ideas. Now Dr. Peet must 

 either accept Mr. Cowles' teaching and reap 

 all the glory of the victory which will soon 

 be Columbia's, or start in all over again, 

 and undo the progress that has been made. 

 If this last is done, it will be another 3 or 4 

 years before Columbia can hope to put a 

 respectable, much less a winning crew on 

 the water. 



SOME RECORD BREAKERS. 



When we look back and see how the rec- 

 ords in the different branches of sport have 

 changed it seems more than wonderful. In 

 1876 the jumping record was 18 feet 3^2 

 inches. The present record is 23 feet 7^ 

 inches. This is a difference of almost 6 

 feet. Authorities on the sport of broad 

 jumping attribute this advancement en- 

 tirely to science and system in training and 

 style. The jumpers of former years, when 

 considering the records made last season, 

 claim that if the men who held the records 

 in their day, had had the advantages that 

 the training of the modern athlete gives 

 they could have improved their jump from 

 a foot to a foot and a half. 



Of all the different events in track athlet- 

 ics none has shown the steady and marked 

 advance, from season to season, as that of 

 the running broad jump. It reached its 

 height this year when 3 men broke the in- 

 tercollegiate record of 2.2 feet 11J/2 inches 

 made by Victor Mapes, of Columbia in 1891, 

 and 2, the world's record of 23 feet 7 1 /* 

 inches, made by M. M. Rosengrave, at 

 Sydney, Australia, in 1896. 



The new intercollegiate record is held by 

 Meyer Prinstein, of Syracuse University. 

 The record is 23 feet j¥% inches, and was 

 made at Berkeley Oval on May 28th last. 

 J. P. Remington, and A. C. Kraenzlein of 

 the University of Pennsylvania were the 

 other 2 men who broke the Mapes record. 



FOOTBALL CAPTAINS. 

 The following have been elected as cap- 

 tains of the principal college football teams 

 for '99: 



Yale — Malcolm McBride. 

 Harvard — W. A. M. Burden. 

 University of Pennsylvania — T. T. Hare. 

 Cornell— D. A. Reed. 

 Brown— H. S. Pratt. 

 Lafayette — E. G. Bray. 

 Wesleyan — R. W. Rymer. 

 West Point— W. D. Suntle. 

 Dartmouth — J. Wentworth. 

 Columbia — E. Stow. 

 Williams — L. L. Draper. 

 Amherst — W. D. Ballantine. 

 Virginia — H. T. Summersgill. 

 State — J. Randolph. 



Washington and Jefferson — J. A. Mat- 

 thews. 



Rucknell— H. B. Reimer. 

 Chicago — W. S. Kennedy. 



THE NUMBER CHOSEN. 

 The following table shows the number of 

 men from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cor- 

 nell, West Point, the University of Mich- 

 igan, and the University of Pennsylvania 

 who have been given places on the All- 

 American foot-ball team since 1889. 



Y. H. P. C. W. P. M. Pa. 



1889, 3 . 3 5 o o a o 



1890, 3530000 



1891, 5230001 



1892, 3520001 



1893, 3 3 5oooo 



1894, 5 120003 



1895, 2221004 



1896, 2240003 



1897, 4 2 2 o o 03 



1898, 2420111 



32 29 



30 



16 



During that time Yale has had 24 substi- 

 tutes. Harvard, the same number, Princeton, 

 21, the University of Pennsylvania, 14, Cor- 

 nell, 4, West Point, 4, Lafayette, 2, Brown, 1, 

 and the University of Wisconsin, 1. 



AS GOOD AS A BANK. 



Few things pay better than a good foot- 

 ball team. When it has puilt up a reputation 

 it can pay the expenses of every other ath- 

 letic interest in a college. The total receipts 

 from the Harvard- Yale game at New Haven 

 were $34,342, the expenditures being $3,791.- 

 80. The net proceeds were thus $30,550.20, 

 of which Harvard and Yale each received 

 $15,275.10. 



The receipts of the Yale-Princeton game 

 were $24,944.00, and the expenditures $4,- 

 482.57. The net proceeds were $20,461.43, of 

 which Yale and Princeton each received 

 $10,230.72. From these 2 games alone Yale 

 pocketed $25,505.82. When the other 

 games played are taken into consideration 

 it is safe to say the profit of the Blue will 

 figure up nearly $30,000.00. 



Harvard netted $26,750.68 on her football, 

 and Pennsylvania almost as much. 



COMING EVENTS. 



The Yale and Princeton gymnastic teams 

 will this year, instead of giving a mere ex- 

 hibition, as heretofore, engage in a contest, 

 and a decision will be rendered by 3 judges, 

 selected from among the leading gymnastic 

 experts in the country. This contest will 

 be held in New Haven some time next 

 month, and arrangements are being made for 

 competitions in wrestling, and fencing as 

 well as an exhibition in boxing. 



The schedule for February, of the Yale 

 University basket-ball team, is as follows: 



February 2d — Middletown Y. M. C. A., at 

 Middletown. 



4th— Washington Heights Y. M. C. A., at 

 Washington Heights. N. Y. 



8th — Trinity College, at Hartford. 



nth — New Britain A. C. at New Haven. 



