University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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jHERE are two important aspects to First Year athletics, two co- ordinate phases of the service which the maintenance and encourage- ment of athletic organizations among First Year men render the University. It is considered desirable by most American institutions, and by the Southern Conference in particular, to safeguard the essentially amateur character of intercollegiate sport by forbidding the participation on Varsity teams of men who have not resided at least one session at the institution they seek to represent. Tlius it hoped effectively to discourage the migratory athlete and to reduce to a minimum the possibilities of an insidious profes- sionalization of intercollegiate sport. Therefore, inasmuch as First Year men are disqualified for the time being from representing the University on regular teams, it is of prime importance that they be afforded some other means of engaging in organized sport. Contests with men of similar status in other colleges are valuable per se, if Varsity sports themselves are of value; for they parallel Varsity sports in their fundamental purpose. A secondary consideration, though of hardly less importance, is that First Year teams serve as a means of preliminary training for positions on the Varsity. In them lies the foundation of future success and athletic prestige. Outstanding success was earned in the majority of the departments of First Year athletics during the last year. The track team of 1926 was vic- torious in every one of five meets, perpetuating the standard attained by its predecessor. The baseball nine of the same spring maintained a rather con- sistent 2 to I ratio between wins and losses. The football team of 1926, rounded into shape by Coaches Diffey, Holland, and Bramble, captured three games out of a schedule of five. The Yearling harriers, as usual, it may be noted, were successful on every occasion. The basket-ball team of 1927 unfortunately found difficulty in getting started and did not make an impressive showing, but the swimmers of the same season again batted one thousand per cent. The session was noteworthy, so far as First Year athletics are concerned, for the formation of Yearling teams in two additional sports, boxing and wrestling. Matches arranged in the former resulted adversely, but the single wrestling match on the First ear schedule was overwhelmingly won. [342 1

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9a7 ' 1; ii!i ' iiiijM»ii! ,»n| } the season ' s outset with even the most rudimentary tactics of the game, and consideration made of the strength of the opponents encountered and the character of fight and skill displayed against them. In every instance the Cavalier lacrosse men acquitted themselves with distinction, giving evidence in successive contests of an improvement remarkable and impressive. Several players, developed in this single season, acquired a mastery of their respective positions outstanding in college circles. But few will be lacking from the 1927 line-up and the season gives promise of noteworthy achievement. The 1926 schedule opened on Lambeth Field April 2nd, after several weeks of intensive practice, with a 1 to I tie with Randolph-Macon. The Yellow Jackets revealed unexpected strength and provided enthusiastic oppo- sition. For three quarters of the next Lambeth Field encounter, with L ' Hiron- delle Club of Baltimore, victory smiled on the Cavaliers, but the greater experience of the rival stickmen, all former college stars, told in the conclud- ing moments and enabled them to win, 6 to 2. In the Johns Hopkins game in Baltimore the following week, Virginia was almost unique in scoring on the ranking college team of the United States and was second only to Army in holding them to so low a score. The superb form of the Cavaliers elicited abundant favorable comment from sports critics. A 10 to I loss on Lambeth Field to Maryland, the second ranking team of the country, and a tie with Randolph-Macon in Ashland, after a prolonged intervening period of inaction, concluded the season. Bud Power, whose superior work as goalkeeper proved one of the season ' s exceptional features, was selected to captain the 1927 stickmen. The absence of Thompson and Halsell, captains of 1926 and 1925 respectively, whose work was outstanding, will be keenly felt. As CoRKS AND CuRLS goes to press games with Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, L ' Hi- rondelle Club, Randolph-Macon, and others are pending. [341]

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CORKJ CURILi V, ' ininijnMii ,?fi! I » hi 1 -- ' ' 1927 Track, 1926 BENJAMIN VAUGHAN BOOTH, Jr Manager HENRY HADEN LANNIGAN Coach F. H. ANDREWS R. R. BEASLEY D. J. C. CORPS G. T. DANIEL C. L. GILBERT R. B. GRINNAN L. M. HAMMOND J. C. HUTCHESON First Year Team. First Year Team. First ' ear Team. First ' ear Team. TEAM L. E. KNIGHT D. L. M-AULSBY S. H. MIRMELSTEIN J. C. NEELY C. J. OVERSTREET J. J. PLEASANTS RECORD P. E. SACKETT J. W. THOMAS J. M. THOMPSON J. M. WARREN W. S. WIEDEN B. T. WHITE F. C. WILLI.AMS E. P. WOODWARD . . . 65 Woodberry Forest School 52 .105 2-3 Maryland 1 1 1 -3 . . . 84 ' ashington and Lee 33 . .. 76 V. M. i 42 I HE First Year Team of 1926 maintained the high standard of its immediate predecessor and went through the season without losing a meet in four starts. Victones over Woodberry Forest, Maryland, Washington and Lee, and V. M. I. in outdoor competition together with a creditable indoor record rank it amongst the best of Cavalier yearling aggregations. The oung Cavaliers, running in the Lord Reading Club Invitation Meet in Rich- mond, lost to the Fork Union Military Academy mile relay. The Virginia quartet was composed of Mirmelstein, White, Thomas, and Beasley. In the University of Richmond Inoor Meet, however, the same four brought back the South Atlantic cham- pionship freshman cup by defeating the cub teams of William and Mary and the University of Richmond. The outdoor season opened with a hard-earned 65-52 victory over Woodberry Forest. Neely, former Woodberry captain, took high-point honors with wins in the 220 and the low hurdles and second place in the I 00. Maryland was swamped by the Cavalier yearlings 105 2-3 — 1 1 1-3. The Orange and Blue took twelve of the thirteen firsts and all thirteen second places, granting the Old Liners but one win and six thirds with a tie for another. Washington and Lee succumbed to the Virginia cubs, the count being 84 to 33. The Young Cavaliers took nine firsts and made a clean sweep in the 880, mile, high jump, and shot put. In the final meet of the vear the First ' ear Team took the measure of V. M. I. 76 to 42. 343