The day when we shall see interscholastic boat-races is far distant, I am afraid; although there is no reason why it should be.
The interests of so widely representative an interscholastic meeting must be so diverse that it would be unwise, for many reasons, to hold it in a town identified only with one of them.
I am glad to say that the suggestion of forming a general league has been favorably received by many enthusiasts in interscholastic sport, and, so far as I know, has been unfavorably commented on by no one.
Uniformity is a great thing in any branch of human endeavor, and the sooner we can attain to it in interscholastic sport the farther advanced we shall be.
The Yale Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held in New Haven on the same date as Harvard's in Cambridge, and although the entries were not so many from the Connecticut schools, the work of the players was excellent.
Then he had the bar put up a quarter of an inch above the interscholastic record mark of 5 ft.
A notable feature of this event was that every place man in it surpassed the interscholastic record, the third man bettering it as much as 3 feet.
The bicycle racers broke the interscholastic record of 2 min.
Space prevents my inserting a comparative table of the interscholastic and intercollegiate records, but I shall do that at an early date, and the showing will by no means discredit the school athletes.
The latter change was commendable, because the inter-collegiate event is two miles, and so it is in almost all of the other interscholastic programmes of the country.
Boston, May 2d, the legislators very wisely voted to keep men over twenty years of age out of all interscholastic contests.
As far as I know not a daily newspaper of this city announced, on that morning, that there would be interscholastic games at the Oval that afternoon.
Then the Interscholasticgames of the New England League come, at Cambridge, on June 15th, and they will be preceded on June 8th by the Western Massachusetts I.
This was doubtless due to the pacing of Ehrich, which was permitted by the mutual consent of the Interscholastic Committees.
The New England Association is now the largest interscholastic organization in the country, having twenty-eight schools in its membership.
It will give interscholastic sport a great boom in every way, and raise the standard and importance of school contests.
Every boy and girl interested in Interscholastic Sport should own a copy of "The Book of Athletics and other Out-of-Door Sports," edited by Norman W.
One was the question which football rules shall govern the contests held under the supervision of the association this fall, and the other was in regard to the formation of a National Interscholastic Amateur Athletic Association.
National Interscholastic Association, for an enterprise of this nature requires much time and thought to ensure success, and in order to hold a creditable field day next June preparations for the gathering should be begun at once.
I would suggest that all other interscholastic associations whose sentiments lean in this direction communicate informally with this Department, giving the name and address of some member with whom the N.
The New York interscholastic football season is more backward this year than ever before.
This school belongs to the Academic Athletic League of the Pacific Coast, and is imbued with sufficient sporting spirit to wish to come East, and enter the National Interscholastic lists.
This league ought to grow and prosper, for it is just the kind of thing that is needed among the schools of the Northwest to encourage and foster interscholastic sport.
This organization shall be known as the National Interscholastic Amateur Athletic Association of the United States.
With Bien giving the signals it is safe to predict that no interscholastic team of this season in the New York or Brooklyn League could score against the All-New-York eleven for 1895.
Any interscholastic league, association, or club, composed of at least two schools, shall be eligible to membership.
Of the formation of the National Interscholastic Amateur Athletic Association I can only say a few words this week, but I shall go into it more extensively at an early date.
The championship schedule for the Senior League of the New England Interscholastic Football Association was made out last week at a meeting of the Captains held at the B.
More men have already entered than for any previous Newport interscholastic tournament, and several cracks have not yet been heard from.
The Interscholastic Tennis Tournament will no doubt be held this year during the first week of the single championships at Newport.
In spite of the fact that we are in the middle of the summer, with the track-athletic season several weeks behind us, the interest in the formation of a general interscholastic athletic association seems to be just as lively as ever.
Presently the long line was crouching on the mark, the pistol sounded, and the interscholastic meeting had begun.
I hope you’ll use them when you win the mile at the interscholastic meet.
I am glad to see so much interest displayed in the approaching interscholastic meeting.
I’ll time you this try, and the fellow that finishes second will have to work hard next week if he wants to go to the interscholastic meeting.
Then both those institutions would feel that their interest in the welfare of the Interscholastic League entitled them to an eye in its supervision.
The objection I make to this arrangement is that it is hardly right to look upon the Interscholastic Football Association as a feeder for Harvard alone.
If the plan now proposed in the middle West can be carried out, we shall see next year an Interscholastic Association composed of the principal schools of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
I remember that in 1888, the year the Interscholastic League was formed by Harvard to train players for the Cambridge eleven, several of the best players of one of the strongest teams went to Yale.
This year no less than seven of the Crimson's players, including Captain Whittemore, are graduates from the interscholastic ranks.
To encourage sharp work in interscholastic baseball the Boston A.
Latin School, and Bryant & Strattons vigorously opposed the adoption of this rule, because each one of them has candidates for interscholastic honors who are affected by the new legislation.
That school has always been unfortunate in interscholastic athletics, never having finished higher than fourth place in baseball.
Still, where there is so much smoke there must be some fire, and, on the whole, I am inclined to believe that the new rule will tend toward the purification of interscholastic sport.
If he is at school, he should enjoy all privileges ininterscholastic athletics.
Charter Oak track at Hartford next month promises to be one of the most interesting contests of the interscholastic season.
The principal difficulty in the way of such progress at present lies in the fact that so few schools have crews, that interscholastic contests are hard to arrange.
I am assured that at that meeting the first steps towards the formation of the National Interscholastic League will be taken.
Now that the fall term is about to open, this matter promises to be taken up with the energy required for such an undertaking, and all we need is the hearty co-operation of the many interscholastic associations from every State in the Union.
There was a rumor last spring that one of the New York principals made one of his pupils sign an agreement to the effect that he would only enter in certain events at the interscholastic games.
We shall have to look for some other method of routing these Tammanyites of interscholastic sport.
If some good genie would only come up out of the earth and apply the ribbon test to interscholasticsport as conducted in New York city, I can assure him he would get a response that would startle him.
If this be true I commend last week's Interscholastic Sport columns to the Cheshire scholars.
The managers of the New York Football Association are having considerable difficulty in securing the services of college graduates to act as umpires and referees at interscholasticchampionship games.
During the spring of 1906 a large number of interscholastic competitions were held.
On June 1 and 2 the annual interscholastic competition for the Whitney trophy was held.
The high schools which are equipped with this subtarget gun machine have organized rifle clubs, and are holding interscholastic contests in the armories of the different regiments of the National Guard, shooting with .
Owing to a delay in the receipt of the photographs, the announcement of the All-New-York interscholastic football team has been necessarily postponed until next week.
For the Honor of the School A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport.
We certainly did her up finely at the interscholastic meet, eh?
I won the four hundred and forty at the handicap meet in the spring, and wanted to go to the Interscholastic Meet, only Beck said I’d better wait until this year.
A correspondent suggests that the schools of New York--and I don't see why it would not be just as good an idea for schools of other cities--hold an interscholastic bicycle meet this fall.
If a bicycle field day cannot be gotten up this fall, there is no reason why there should not be an interscholastic road race.
If they do, the interscholastic associations will no doubt follow suit, and then the wheelmen will find themselves, to a certain extent, out of it, if they have not already prepared for separate contests.
Baltazzi, of the Harvard School of this city, who holds the interscholastic high-jumping record not only of the N.
The first three in this last group hold United States interscholastic records in their events.
Nothing in sport to-day is more important than to maintain a broad and honest spirit of fair play, for without such a spirit interscholastic athletics, and every other kind of athletics, are bound to deteriorate.
Part of this addition is the athletic department, entitled Interscholastic Sport.
Barnard, of course, will make a desperate endeavor to carry off the honors of the day, and thus secure a full title to the Interscholastic Cup.
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic championship having been settled, there now remains the New England championship, the decisive game of which will be played in Boston on Friday, and the Inter-City championship of the N.
In spite of the heavy rain-storm of May 18th the Princeton Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held at Princeton, resulting in the championship remaining at Lawrenceville.
Mr. Wood brings out many interesting points in his letter regarding football, and though most of his objections to the game refer more to intercollegiate than to interscholastic football, still, to a certain degree, they apply to both.
As soon as the regular Interscholastic League season of baseball, tennis, track athletics, and cricket closes there will be more time to devote to other branches of sport.
Over 7000 people paid admission to witness this interscholastic contest.
Some creditable performances were made at the field meeting of the Pittsburg Interscholastic A.
No effort should be spared to bring it about, and the only way to do it is to form one large all-embracing Interscholastic Association.
Illustration: Royal Baking Powder] The Interscholastic Sport Department of Harper's Round Table will be as full of matter interesting to its present readers during the summer months as it is now.
It is a question whether, for the purposes of an Interscholastic meet of this kind, a mile track would be as good as a lesser one.
The Pratt Institute team opened the Long Island interscholastic season with a victory over Adelphi, and by a score that surprised even those who knew what a strong eleven the Institute had.
The National Interscholastic Athletic Association question will come up for discussion again before the New York I.
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