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

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246 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. Freshman team had a fine record, the only defeat coming at the hand of Harvard, by the slim margin of 66-69. Sophomore year savv Yale with one of the most powerful and Well-balanced aggregations in the East, for it overcame all opposi- tion except Princeton, with whom the meet was tied. Among the victims of this strong squad were N.Y.U., Cornell, Harvard, and Penn. The following men received major Y's for their excellent work in their respective events: Combs, Loud, Smith, and Dunbar. Iunior year the team's record Was not as impressive as the record of the previous year. Penn and Prince- ton were defeated, but Cornell and Harvard administered defeats. These defeats were in part atoned for by the team placing second in the I.C.4A. outdoors and third in the I.C.4A. indoor meet. It is expected that Combs, Dun- bar, Loud, and Smith will again perform well in Senior year and We CflPtrli11B1'0wf1- wish them every success.

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ATHLETIC HISTORY 245 Fletcher's Varsity faced with a very tough schedule, and McGill, Clarkson, and Toronto took the measure of the Blue. The Princeton series was taken by Princeton in two straight games, 2-3 and 1-2. Yale won the first game of the Harvard series, 4-1, but lost the sec- ond by the same score. In a fast and exciting play-off, the Harvard team eked out a very close victory, the final score standing 4-3. Iunior year Captain Gilli- ganis squad undertook a very ambitious schedule. On the Ca- nadian trip before Christmas the team lost to McGill, 5-1, but won from Toronto, 5-3, the next night. In the Princeton series Yale turned back Prince- ton in two straight games, 7-2 b and 3-1, thus getting revenge Arena. for the two defeats at the hands of Princeton the year before. The first game of the Harvard series boded ill for a favorable outcome when Harvard opened with a 6-2 win. Yale, however, staged a smart comeback in the Boston Garden, winning handily by the score of 3-1. The play-off in New Haven was a.nip and tuck battle all the way, Yale finally emerging the vic- tor by virtue of Ioe Gilligan's winning tally in the last few minutes of the overtime period. Senior year again found the team playing the best of the Canadian and American college teams. Both Harvard and Yale defeated Dart- mouth and Princeton easily, and the Yale-Harvard championship series was eagerly anticipated. The hrst game of the series was won by Yale, 4-3, in a tense game that went into an overtime period. The second game was played in the Arena before a Prom week-end crowd, hoping for a Yale victory. The Crimson won, 4-1, however, in a game that was unexciting and disappointing. The following week a determined and fighting Yale team defeated Harvard in the play-off at Boston by the score of 3-2, thus bringing the Hobey Baker trophy, emblematic of the Intercollegiate Hockey champion- ship, again to Yale. Track ln the fall of Freshman year our Class was represented in track by Harry Combs, Phil Hirsh, Nels Loud, Don Murray, Ben Short, Edge Smith, and Charlie Dunbar, who was elected captain. The

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ATHLETIC HISTORY Frank Harris and Sherm Wing were awarded numerals in Freshman year in that tough grind, cross country. C few Long Ned Wilson handled the No. 4 oar and Frank Hunt coxed on a strong Freshman crew that defeated all competition, with the exception of the Pennsylvania frosh. Fitz Quarrier, carry- ing on a family tradition, pulled a lusty oar on the second crew. Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Kent, and Harvard succumbed to the superior power and precision of Captain Ben Taylor's 247 nn. 9 ay fi ,Jizz I' H4 f l S hcl? Zl'LlCk.S'lEl'. Athletic Association. take both the Blackwell and Carnegie cups, race at New London by 722, seconds. During the summer the Na- tional Intercollegiates were held at Long Beach, Calif., and Yale sent her Varsity, one of the greatest sprint crews in the country, to compete. In the pre- liminaries Yale won over Cornell and Cali- fornia Qwhose crew men. At New London the Blue stroked over the course in 8:16, 14M seconds ahead of the Crimson, to a new Freshman record. The Freshman ISO- pound crew, which had for years been a Sheff monopoly, did not include any of our men in its ranks. As Sophomores we saw the Varsity again but lose the four-mile Winter sport.