Review of Athletics for 1906.
The year 1906 has been a splendid
one in athletics for -Old Penn State."
With the happy, echoes' of the grand
football victory over W.U.P. still ring
ing in the ears of all loyal "State"
men, the good name of the "White
and Blue"!has been upheld with brill
iant success this year in basketball,
track athletics, and baseball for a grand
total in these three branches of sport
of 23 victories and only 10 defeats in
contests with the foremost college
teams of the East.
In basketball Captain Heaton and
his men won six games out of ten
played, and defeated such worthy op
ponents as W.U.P., Susquehanna,
Wyoming,, Greensburg, etc; losing only
to Penn's champ.on five, Lehigh and
Southside of Pittsburg, after hard
fought games... Throughout the sea
son, owing 'to injuries and Faculty ac
tion, the basketball team was scarcely
ever able to muster its full strength,
blit always kept working hard for vic
tory and,had a very succcssful season.
On the track State's sons have con
cluded a great season's work by win
ning dual Meets from the Carlisle
Indians„ and Dickinson, and losing only
to the '.Middies" at Annapolis after a
record-breaking meet, which was higher
class all around than the Yale—Prince
ton meet held- on the same day at New
Haven. In the Inter-collegiate Relays
at Philadelphia, State's team, coin
posed of Captain Arnold, Henry, Kai
ser, and Stapler, ran third to Virginia
and Lafayette after a terrific race, in
which the time .made, 3:28 3-5, was
only second to that of the Inter-colle
giate championship event. Our-old track
rivals,the Indians, were beaten for the
first time on their own reservation by a
score cf 51 1-2 to 52 1-2; while Dick
inson was given the most overwhelming
defeat in her track history, the final
score standing 86 to 18. Our rivals
from Carlisle did not win a single first
place in this meet, and State's loyal
undergraduates had good reason for re
joicing. Efforts were made to sched-
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
ule dual meets with Lafayette and W.
U. P. and although arrangements
could not be made this year, it is hoped
that these attractions may be added
to next season's schedule.
There has been something doing in
the record-breaking line also, as shown
in the Carlisle meet. -Hi" Henry low
ered the State•time for the 100 yards
to 10 seconds flat; while at Annapolis
"Johnny" Kaiser lowered the mark for
the half mile to 2 minutes 2 1-5 sec
onds; and in the Dickinson meet
"Mother" Dunn advanced the distance
for the hammer throw to 128 ft. 9 6-10
inches, and Captain Arnold, 'O6, holds
the quarter-mile rocord at 51 2-5
seconds. Thus it is seen that during
the present season a decided improve
ment has been made in all around
track-work, and each year State's
standard in track athleti6s is becoming
higher, For next season V. L. Hen
ry, 'O7, has been elected captain of
the "White and Blue's" track team,
and he will surely prove a popular,
magnetic leader, so that the coming
prospects on the track are decidedly
bright. In basketball, Waha, 'O9, is
the captain for next fall; in football
Dunn, '08; while the next baseball
leader has not as yet been chosen.
In baseball the grand record of 13
victories and 5 defeats has been
achieved after a - season filled with
accidents and discouragements. As
but a single game (the Villanova con
test) remains to be played on the
peerless schedule of Manager Himes,
it is interesting to review briefly the
work done this season by the Varsity
Handicapped at the very start by
the loss of five such star players as
Ray, Forkum, Moorhead, Yoder,
and Brandt, the prospects in March
locked only too dismal to every
body concerned.
Then with an untried team the
Southern trip was taken, and such
cold, wet, chilly weather encountered
as to put the condition of the players
back several weeks, instead of irnprov-
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