Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

Page 269 text:

The 1926-1927 Varsity Swimming Team E. FRED UHRBROCK, '27 Captain FREDERICK DASSORI, '28 Assistant Manager 440-Yard Swim Douglas W. Bowden, '27 T. Lloyd Tyson, '28 ' Clarence K. Conard, '28 50-Yard Swim Horace Davenport, '29 William Wright, '27 150-Yard Backstroke Frank Bowden, '29 Edward Bratter, '28L ROYAL C. MONTGOMERY, 28 Manager EDWARD KENNEDY Coach Fancy Dive Henry W. Kumpf, '29 Charles B. Horton, '28 100-Yard Swim Horace Davenport, '29 E. Fred Uhrbrock, '27 William Wright, '27 200-Yard Breaststroke Richard W. Ince, '28E William H. Dragunas, '27 SCHEDULE Opponent Date Place Columbia Opponents Wesleyan January Columbia Yale January New Haven Williams February Columbia C. C. N. Y. February C. C. N. Y Navy February Annapolis Dartmouth February Columbia Syracuse March Syracuse Pennsylvania March Columbia Princeton March Columbia I:2791

Page 268 text:

Varsity Swimming W? far T the start of the current swimming season the prospects for a suc X K? class opposition that was scheduled for the Varsity Natators The ling, Eastern Intercollegiate League by the admission of Navy and Dart N N mouth, had become the strongest league of its kind in the country. However, mid-years and the consequent eligibility of several men wrought a decided change in affairs, and as we go to press the squad seems to have an excellent chance of making at least a better record than that of the last couple of years. The season opened on January 12, with a non-league match with Wes- leyan in the Columbia pool. The Blue and White made an auspicious start by easily conquering the Middletown athletes. Horace Davenport carried off the individual honors for the evening by winning the fifty and hundred yard dashes. He also swam anchor man on the victorious relay, the other members of which were Pick, Uhrbrock and Forsyth. The most exciting race was the 200-yard breast. Ince and Dragunas both trailed during the early stages of the race but pulled up towards the end and lnce nosed out Gray of Wesleyan for first place, Dragunas finishing third. Columbia picked up eight points in the back-stroke when Frank Bowden and Bratter finished one-two. The irst league meet of the season followed. The Yale swimmers proved so invincible in their own pool that they turned in a perfect score against the Morningside team. On February 5 the team lost another meet, this time in the local pool. The opposing college was Williams, which came down with a surprisingly well-balanced team of fast swimmers. In this meet two Colum- bia stars made their debut of the season. They were Henry Kumpf and Bill Wright, both of whom had been ineligible to date. The winners in all events made exceptionally excellent time and two Columbia Pool records were broken: Walter Schott of Williams did the 200-yard breast-stroke in l:4-2, and the Blue and White relay team, composed of Uhrbrock, Davenport, Forsyth and Wright, won with l:42 4-lO seconds. The second league meet of the year took place on February llth at C. C. N. Y. Although Columbia won by only four points, the result was never in doubt. Wright, as usual, won the 50 and 100-yard events with Davenport a close second in both. Uhrbrock competed in the back-stroke for the first time, and captured second place. Kumpf once again led the field in the dive. The last event contested, the relay, saw Columbia with a safe lead of twelve points. Columbia captured this event but was disqualified because of the failure of one man to touch one end of the pool in making a turn. Meets are still to be held with Navy, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Penn, amd Princeton, and the outlook seems to be excellent. cessful season seemed rather poor, especially in view of the high ' . P - - f278j

Page 270 text:

Varsity Riiie Team ,QT OLUMBIA'S Varsity Rifle Team completed an exceptionally suc- f cessful 1925-26 season by defeating Syracuse, C. C. N. Y., Ren- sallear, Penn State, Princeton, and Buffalo by decisive scores to win the championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Rifle League, and by taking third place in the annual Shoulder-to-shoulder meet held at the Crescent Athletic Club, in which representatives of twelve Eastern and Middle Western colleges participated. The men who bore the brunt of the work in this victorious season were Captain Affelder, Devereux, Fry, Cahalan, Torrey, Wallace, and Coshland. In the six matches in which the Lion remained undefeated in order to Win the Eastern Intercollegiate Rifle League Championship, the scores were: 7 c Xb P if If Columbia, 1906 Syracuse, 1899 Columbia, 1912 C. C. N. Y., 1902 Columbia 19 07 Penn State 185 7 Columbia, 1905 Princeton fforfeitj Columbia, 1929 Buffalo, Cforfeitj Columbia, 1918 Rensallear, 18 8 6 During the present season, the Lion Rifle Team has shown exceptional strength, having defeated Rutgers, Leland Stanford, Pennsylvania, C. C. N. Y., Rensallear, Johns Hopkins, and Pittsburgh by ample scores, while they were nosed out by Norwich and George Washington by slight margins. During the remainder of the season, the Columbia team will face Nor- wich, Boston University, George Washington, Georgetown, Pennsylvania, Penn State, and Virginia Poly in the Intercollegiate Rifle League Telegraphic Matches. Beside these league matches, the team will fire against the M. I. T. Rifle Team and will also meet Rutgers and C. C. N. Y. in the Metropolitan Prone Championships, the title which is now held by C. C. N. Y. To end the season, the team will compete in the Intercollegiate Shoulder- to-shoulder Rifle Meet which is the match which the majority of the rifle teams of the Eastern and Middle Western colleges all look forward to, for the winner of this contest is generally awarded the highest place among the collegiate rifle teams for that season. Although the Columbia team was disappointed in its attempts to obtain a new and larger range in the new student center, the men are still doing their best in their cramped quarters. 12803