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RECREATION, 



University of Chicago football team for 

 next season is as follows : 



Oct. 7, University of Iowa; Oct. 14, Cor- 

 nell; Oct. 21, Oberlin; Oct. 28, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Nov. 4, Purdue; Nov. 11, North- 

 western; Nov. 18, Minnesota; Nov. 25, 

 Beloit; Nov. 30, Brown University. 



Harvard and Yale will hold their dual 

 athletic meet on the 13th of this month, at 

 Springfield, Mass. 



Cornell's football trouble culminated in 

 the refusal of the Cornell Athletic Council 

 to ratify Mr. E. R. Sweetland's election as 

 captain of the '99 team. At the same meet- 

 ing when the foregoing action was taken 

 Mr. R. D. Starbuck, 1900, full back of last 

 year's team, was chosen to fill the position. 

 He is 21 years of age, weighs 170 pounds 

 and is 5 feet llV£ inches in height. Before 

 the election each member of the 11 was 

 handed a copy of the following which needs 

 no explanation: 

 To the Members of the Cornell Football 



Team: 



The Athletic Council having declined to 

 ratify the election of Edwin R. Sweetland 

 as captain of the football team, the Commit- 

 tee on Football respectfully transmits the 

 following resolution passed by the council: 



" Resolved, That in the interests of 

 harmony among the various elements 

 whose co-operation is necessary for the suc- 

 cess of Cornell athletics, the council deems 

 it inadvisable to ratify the election of Ed- 

 win R. Sweetland as captain of the football 

 team." 



The specific reasons for the action are 

 twofold. First, in view of the factions 

 created here this fall in the matter of the 

 coaching and captaining the team, it was 

 thought best that the leaders of these fac- 

 tions should retire. Mr. Warner and Mr. 

 Fennell withdrew as candidates for coach 

 and Mr. Reed withdrew as captain. The 

 retirement of Mr. Sweetland leaves the field 

 open for the selection of a captain and a 

 coach who have had no leading part in the 

 unfortunate rivalries of the past season and 

 can unite the interests of the ensuing sea- 

 son. 



Second — A large number of football 

 alumni, including many of those who have 

 assisted in coaching in the past and whose 

 assistance is necessary in the future, have 

 protested in the strongest terms against die 

 ratification of Mr. Sweetland's election. 

 The council was not in a position to judge 

 whether this opposition is just; it knew 

 only that it existed and that harmony be- 

 tween football graduates and the football 

 management would be imperilled if Mr. 

 Sweetland were captain. 



A charge was laid before the council that 

 Mr. Sweetland had lost his amateur stand- 

 ing by receiving compensation for playing 

 on the Elmira A. C. football team in the 

 fall of 1897. This charge was supported by 

 affidavits from the various officers of the 



club, stating that the club had paid Mr. 

 Sweetland "his expenses" and a further sum 

 of money as consideration for his playing 

 football. Mr. Sweetland appeared before 

 the council and denied the truth of the 

 charges, and said that he had received his 

 expenses and no more. None of the ac- 

 cusers, nor Mr. Sweetland, would say how 

 much had been paid. In this state of the 

 evidence the council did not feel justified, 

 without further inquiry, and especially 

 without ascertaining the sum so paid and 

 received, in deciding whether Mr. Sweet- 

 land had or had not become a professional. 

 Mr. Sweetland has been offered the chance 

 to bring the matter up again so that it can 

 be probed to the bottom if he so desires. 



ROWING, 



The Newell Boat Club, of Harvard, has 

 engaged Dan Murphy to coach its 8. Har- 

 vard now has 3 professional oarsmen acting 

 as instructors, namely: Donovan, at the 

 Weld, Murphy, at the Newell, and O'Dea, 

 the university instructor. 



At a meeting of the Poughkeepsie High- 

 land Amateur Rowing Association and the 

 Stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing As- 

 sociation the following gentlemen were 

 present when it was decided to hold the 

 Poughkeepsie Regatta on June 26 and 27 : 



W. A. Meikleham, Columbia University, 

 Chairman; Thomas Reath, University of 

 Pennsylvania, and Norman J. Gould, Cor- 

 nell. Stewards I. R. A., Capt. Kintzer and 

 James Bond, Universitv of Pennsylvania; 

 C. E. Lambert, C. C. Hughes, H. W. Peck- 

 well, J. H. Campbell and F. R. Fortmeyer, 

 Poughkeepsie Highland Amateur Rowing 

 Association. 



The freshman contest is to be rowed on 

 the first day over a 2 mile course, and the 

 'varsity over 4 miles on June 27th. The 

 races are to be started, if the present plans 

 hold, at 6.30 p.m. 



Wisconsin is to be represented in the re- 

 gatta by both a 'varsity and freshman 8. 



The advisability of holding single and 4 

 oared shell contests on the day of the fresh- 

 man race was discussed. These races, 

 which are to be open to all colleges, will 

 probably be held. 



Next month will see the rowing of Amer- 

 ica's greatest annual aquatic events. Cor- 

 nell, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Wiscon- 

 sin will row on the Hudson over the Pough- 

 keepsie course, while Yale and Harvard will 

 fight it out at New London. All the crews 

 have now been on the water for a month or 

 more, and are showing up in a form that 

 augurs well for closely contested struggles. 



In June Recreation will be found a de- 

 tailed criticism of the work of the different 

 eights. In the same number will be found 

 the statistics of the most likely men in all 



