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It seems almost incredible that any foot- 

 ball team should fail to pay expenses, but if 

 the reports be true the Princeton. Freshmen 

 team is in that predicament. Only the 

 grossest mismanagement could bring about 

 such a result. 



The Athletic Board of the University of 

 Michigan as well as that of the University 

 of Wisconsin, contemplate sending their 

 u's East next fall. A game with Harvard 

 seems to be the attraction desired. 



The Harvard football team's kicking 

 squad is practicing every afternoon on 

 Soldier's Field. It is reported that the form 

 of the work is equal to that of the '98 team. 



Mr. G. S. Warner, who coached the Cor- 

 nell football 11 last year, has been engaged 

 to coach the Carlisle Indians for next sea- 



son. 



NOTES. 



The Harvard Rifle and Pistol Club, 

 through its representative, Mr. C. H. Tay- 

 lor, has sent the following challenge to the 

 University of Pennsylvania: 



The attention of all students of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, interested in 

 rifle, pistol or revolver shooting, is called 

 to the recent formation of the. Harvard 

 Rifle and Pistol Club. Its members 

 earnestly hope that similar organizations 

 will be" formed at the other leading universi- 

 ties so that intercollegiate rifle, pistol and 

 revolver matches may be instituted. As an 

 incentive to the early formation of such a 

 club at Pennsylvania the Harvard Rifle and 

 Pistol Club hereby extends a challenge to 

 the students of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania to a team match with rifle, pistol or 

 revolver, to be shot under any reasonable 

 conditions Pennsylvania may name. 



The announcement has been made by the 

 graduates' advisory committee of Yale that 

 Mr. A. F. Copeland has been engaged as 

 the trainer of the track team, his duties to 

 begin immediately. Mr. Copeland is a well 

 known athlete and became prominent in 

 1888 when he was a member of the Man- 

 hattan A. C. team. At that time he was a 

 crack sprinter, hurdler and broad jumper, 

 and still holds a number of world's records, 

 the principal of which are those in hurdling 

 for 75, 80, 100, 120 and 250 yards. His time 

 is 14 3-5 seconds for 120 yards over 10 

 hurdles, 2 feet 6 inches high. In 1897 

 Kraenzlein, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, beat Copeland's time for 300 yards, 

 which was yj 3-5 seconds. Copeland's 

 record for the running broad jump, 23 feet 

 3% inches, was not broken until last year. 



meeting held in the St. Nicholas Skating 

 Rink, New York City, on December 23, 

 1898: 



Resolved, That in a series of games to be 

 played by the above colleges, the team hav- 

 ing the highest percentage shall be entitled 

 to the championship, each team playing 2 

 games with every other. In case of a tie 

 for the championship between 2 teams, an 

 extra game shall be played. 



Captain J. C. McCracken, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania track team, has an- 

 nounced that the following named men will 

 be the squad lieutenants for the team. 

 They are to have charge of the candidates 

 for their special events, and will assist 

 Coach Murphy in training the new men: 



One hundred-yard dash, J. W. B. Tewks- 

 bury, '99; 220-yard dash, T. B. McClain, 

 '01; 440-yard run, E. A. Mechling, '99; 

 880-yard run, L. J. Lane; one-mile run, A. 

 R. Earnshaw, '01, and W. V. Little, '01; 2- 

 mile run, Alex. Grant, '00; 120-yard 

 hurdle, J. M. McKibben, '99; 220-yard 

 hurdle, A. C. Kraenzlein, '00; pole vault, 

 E. W. Deakin, '01; broad jump, W. P. 

 Remington, '00; high jump, I. K. Baxter, 

 '00; shot put, A. Garland, '99, and hammer 

 throw, T. T. Hare, '01. 



John Flanagan, the champion hammer 

 thrower of the New York Athletic Club, 

 will get in his preliminary training at Har- 

 vard, and will incidentally give a few points 

 to the crimson men training for the weight 

 events. A corner of Soldier's Field will be 

 devoted to this especial purpose, and sev- 

 eral rings will be laid out. The weight 

 material at Cambridge this year is very 

 promising. H. J. Brown, the St. Paul's 

 School hammer thrower; Spear, the New 

 England interscholastic champion, and Ea- 

 ton, the football player, are among the 

 Freshmen who will try. 



The following was adopted by the repre- 

 sentatives from the hockey teams of Yale, 

 Columbia, Brown and Pennsylvania at a 



The manager of the Princeton Track 

 Team announces that for the first time 

 Princeton and Cornell will hold a dual 

 track meet. The contest will take place at 

 Ithaca, on May 30th, and will include prac- 

 tically the same list of events that will be 

 followed in the intercollegiate meet. It is 

 probable that a joint relay race will also be 

 run. 



Reports from Harvard would now lead 

 one to suppose that the crimson fencing 

 team would soon be disbanded for lack of 

 skill in the men. Columbia, Cornell and 

 Annapolis want to look well to their 

 chances, for 9 times out of 10 an advertised 

 cripple is a pretty good investment. 



John F. Cregan has reconsidered his de- 

 termination to resign the captaincy of the 

 Princeton Track Team, and is now in 

 charge of the Tiger's whelps. 



