Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Ei57'qE-zvd V cg ,V W-H W W-1 1 -r if, 5 Elgin 7 Y! ' ' ,Way -IK fa i f .- t - if f 'J ai? M' f s lm.. -7, Y ii if ? y iiggrttrynfy ,Wnmvlf M ' Q Q 1 G-:-- L.. fi .., ff.,,1 -.-iw:w:1f,ew-f'.:r,a. N .. - yum. . A ,wdgw We, the Class of 1916 Sheff, can claim with unquestionable justice that we have done our share in attempting to maintain the Yale standard in athletics. For we have performed the traditional duty of every class, which is to give not only the best but all that it has, in material to all teams. If success crowns the effort, well and good. If the issue is less fortunate-and such has been our occasional fate-the fault lies not in the attempt but in seine more superficial cause, such as the system or the regular cycles of defeats which are inevitable. We have seen two football teams, on which were men from our Class, defeated by better trained, better equipped, and better coached Harvard elevens, but we believe that this was not the fault of the men who were thoroughly imbued with the Yale spirit. At the same time our Crew has attained the pinnacle, winning from Harvard in two successive years, and through its other victories last year, being awarded the intercollegiate championship. In track and baseball our teams have been up to the average. It is early to predict what the spring will disclose but our prospects are bright in every sport and the results should be praiseworthy. Our contribution to athletics has been large and has not been lacking in stars. We shall have, I believe, by Commencement time the greatest representation in athletics of any Sheff class- no fewer than twenty men having won the coveted letter already, while half that many should be added to the number of Hwearers of the 'Y' in the spring. Freshman year we were well represented in football. On Chub Sheldon 's team were Art Bunker and Bill Easton as backs, who with Chub and Clarke Painter at tackle, Bob Sayre, Duke Farrar and Carl Betts as guards, composed a formidable team, which, though winning most of its early games, lost to Harvard

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400 HISTORY OF 1916 S. UNIVERSITY HOCKEY TEAM, 1916 and Princeton. The following QJuniorD year Carl Betts, Chub Sheldon, Fat Conroy, Jim Sheldon, Carl Wliite, and Babe Waliden on the line and Mal Scovil and Bill Easton, half-backs, ably assisted in defeating Princeton 19-14, but lost to Harvard. Last fall nine of our men played in the championship games, Carl Vlfhite, Fat Walden, the two Sheldons, Mal Scovil, Bill Savage, Higs Higginbotham, Emile Jacques, and Carl Wiede- mann. Senior year the team was successful against Princeton but were again losers to Harvard. The winter brought forth a considerable number of the Class to compete in baseball, track, and crew. In May our Freshman Track Team won the championship by piling up over seventy points against Princeton and also Harvard. VVe were repre- sented by Bill Preston in the pole vault, Bill Brown in the ham- mer throw, Ben Story in the high jump, and Walt Coachman in the quarter-mile. Last spring brought out the four just named in their events while additional material was furnished in Bunk Barker who made an excellent half-miler and Joe Marcus in the mile. Bill Preston proved his ability by vaulting into a tie for