Cornell Alvmni News Vol

CORNELL ALVMNI NEWS VOL. III.—NO. 7. ITHACA, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1900. PRICE TEN CENTS. THE CORNELL FOOTBALL SQUAD. CORNELL WINS. Princeton's 30-yard line. A trick fifteen-yard line, when the men froϊn of the Cornell ends in getting down play sent Starbuck around the end Ithaca would stand like a wall of the field and to their surety in tackl- ing that Cornell was able to gain from Γrinceton Defeated on Her Home for 30 yards and the first touchdown adamant which all the strategy of the Grounds, 12—o. -Cornell a "Vic- was made. The second touchdown Tigers could not successfully storm. 10 to 20 yards on almost every ex- tor Over the Tigers for the was made by hard, straight football. Both times that Cornell scored, the change of punts. "Pop" Warner Second Time. Cornell secured the leather on theTigers had the same chance to show was a tower of strength to the team Tigers' 40-yard line and by line their defensive strength, but each throughout the struggle. Time after With perfect mass formations and plunging and end plays carried it to time the mass formations of the Ith- time the big fellow would be taken with an invulnerable rush line, on Princeton's 5-yard line, where Pur- acans would gradually, slowly, butback of the line to carry the ball, and Saturday afternoon Cornell admin- cell on a double pass went around surely push the Tigers back until a rarely did he fail to make a good istered a crushing" defeat to the foot- the end for another touchdown. Notrick play would send a Cornell player gain. Time and again little Brewster ball team from Old Nassau. For the further scores were made, the teams around the end for a touchdown. would call on Pop to open up the first time in the history of Princeton playing each other to a standstill in Brewster, Starbuck, Warner, Taus- Tiger line and every time the Cornell football were the Tigers defeated in the second half, but the advantage, if sig and Purcell are the men to whom backs would find a big hole waiting their own lair for the second time any, was with the Ithacans. the great victory is mostly due. With in Pop's place for them. Dorner, in the annals of football at Cornell The game was played under the a slippery, slimy ball the little fresh- though he had been out for but a few did the men from Tigertown go down most trying circumstances. Rain man quarter never once fumbled, days, was in excellent condition and in defeat before the Red and White. began to pour down early in thethough his opponent, Duncan, did so stayed in the game throughout, allow- The victory was a decisive one, 12—0, morning, and when the teams came repeatedly and never once did he ing Princeton to make but one sub- and the Princeton men were out- on the field at 2:38 it was still rain- drop a punt, while Duncan twice at stantial gain through him. Whitney played and outclassed in almost every ing down upon a slippery, muddy least watched Starbuck's punts sail and Lueder at the tackles played a department of the game. field. The condition of the field wasdown the field, only to be recovered hard, aggressive game, and but few Three minutes after the referee believed to be an advantage to the by the omnipresent Cornell ends. gains were made through them. Pur- blew his whistle for the kickofϊ Star- Tigers, for their line averaged eight Starbuck may safely be said to have cell carried the ball well, seldom fail- buck went over the line for the first pounds heavier to the man than been the star of the game. When ing to gain, while Morrison at right touchdown of the game. Princeton's Cornell's. Nevertheless, Cornell little Brewster needed a gain of ahalf was hardly at his best. supporters were simply dazed. It played all round the Tigers on de- yard or more on the last down he The whole Cornell team was in the was so sudden and so unexpected. fense, for they held them at least six would almost invariably call on Star- very pink of condition, not a man be- Starbuck had kicked off. Mattis times for downs while the wearers of buck for it, and he rarely failed to ing taken out of the game. Prince- punted and Starbuck returned the the Orange and Black could hold make the required distance. At punt- ton, on the other hand, sent two men punt. Duncan fumbled and Taussig Cornell but once. Several times the ing Starbuck clearly outclassed Mat- to the side lines, and she might ad- was on the ball like a flash, on Tigers carried the ball to Cornell's tis, but it was mainly due to the speed Continued on page j6. 52 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. Sophomores ΛViii Underclass Xlie Klag Rush. Special lectures in Political "Like your Mother used to make" Track: Meet. Science. Although the result of the under- May be a matter of conjugal argument, The special courses in the Depart- but like what you used to wear at college class flag rush on Halloween was is a sentiment that a man can cherish for The underclass track meet, held noticed in last week's ALUMNI NEWS, ment of Political Science, some thirty his very own. In the matter of DRESS Friday afternoon at Percy Field, re- a detailed account may be of interest lectures during the year, will not be-AND NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, if we ever had your sulted in an overwhelming victory for to alumni, owing to the novel de- gin until the winter term, owing to measure we can make them for you still the sophomores, the freshmen suffer- other engagements by some of theand mail you samples of material at any parture from the old-time "cider raid," time. We are head-quarters for CORNELL ing defeat with a score of 98 1-2 to with which Cornell grads of recent lecturers. The courses during the FLAGS and have the only correct Carnelian 44 1-2 points.The only noticeable work years are familar. present year will be of three different shade which differs from all other reds done at the meet was the equalling of Last fall, at the request of the Fac- types, corresponding to the different and we now have dyed to order. All the popular sizes at 50c., 75c, $1.00, $1.50 and two Varsity records by Sears, '04.ulty, the raid was not held, and on its divisions of the Department,—political science, economics and politics. $2.00 on hand and mailed at once without In the first trial heat of the 100-yard proposed revival this year, the matter extra charge. dash his time was 10 1-5 seconds,and in was taken up by a committee, ap- Mr. James B. Reynolds, the head C. R. SHERWOOD, ITHACA, N. Y. the 220-yard dash, 22 1-5 seconds. pointed by the upperclassmen, to worker in the University Settlement This is the second of the under- supervise the affair and eliminate, as in New York, a man who has prob- class athletic contests which the far as possible, its dangerous features. ably had more experience in social work of that kind than any other in Office. Bates Stock sophomores have won this year, the The classes were not to be allowed Ithaca. N.Y baseball game going to them by a to fight en masse, as heretofore, but the United States, is to give fivelec - Phone. score of 12 to 8. The third contest, a series of three five-minute bouts tures on the "Problems of a Great the football game, will be played just was arranged. Fifteen men, chosen City." before Thanksgiving. from each class, composed a team Mr. E. D. Brockway, for many The following is a summary of thethirty men to fight at once. years the superintendent of the Elmira events of the meet: 100-yard dash, About eight o'clock on Tuesday reformatory, is to give five lectures first heat—Won by F. M. Sears, '04 evening, Oct. 30, the juniors and on the "Criminal and his Relations to second, W. G. Warren, '03 time seniors appeared upon the campus. Society." For many years the Elmira 10 1-5 sec. Second heat—Won by J. Meanwhile, the freshmen had asreformator- y under Mr. Brockway's COTRELL & Walz, '04 second F. G. Ransom, sembled, about four hundred strong, management was recognized as the LEONARD, '04; time 10 3-5 sec. Final heat— in front of the Sigma Phi house and model institution of the world for the Won by F. M. Sears, '04 second, J. across Central avenue, the sopho- reformation of criminals, and Mr. 472-4-6-8 BROADWAY, Walz, '"04 third, W. G. Warren, '03 mores occupied the Armory parade Brockway has been recognized as the ALBANY, N. Y. most successful practical worker in fourth, L. J. Hibbard, '04; time ground. Makers of Caps and Gowns. 10 2-5 sec. Fully fifteen hundred students had that field. Hurdle, 120-yard : First heat—Won turned out to see the contest, and af- Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of Correct outfits under the Intercollegiate the American Federation of Labor, System for those holding degrees from by B. F. Longnecker, '03 second, R. ter a time, they were formed into an any American Institution. Illustrated G. Marvin, '03 time 19 sec. Second immense ring on the north side of the will give five lectures on "Modern bulletin, etc., upon application.

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