Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — Swimming Popular at Yale. [ARTICLE]
Swimming Popular at Yale.
Swimming ia the most popular form of athletics at Yale, according to the report of Prof. William G. Anderson, director of the university gymnasium. Of the thirty-three hundred students enrolled at Yale nearly two thousand take part in some branch of athletics. The men are divided among the various sports as follows; Swimming, 600; squash, 150; lawn tennis, 115; handball, 100; rowing, 80; football, 50; cross-country running, 75; track athletics, 65; basket ball, 40; baseball, 25; soccer football, 35; golf, 20; gym* nasties, 25; fencing, 15; boxing, 40; wrestling, 40; bowling, 70; and trap shooting, 25.
