Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1917 — METHOD TO REWARD PLAYERS [ARTICLE]

METHOD TO REWARD PLAYERS

Cornell Adopt* Unique Plan to Recognize Work of Athiete3 in Winning Various Games. Cornell university has adopted a new method of rewarding football and baseball players for winning games, which has been indorsed by the athletic council of the Ithaca institution. The privilege of wearing a miniature gold football on the watch chain or fob will be given to wearers of the football C after a season in which the team has won both the Michigan and Pennsylvania games. Gold baseballs may be worn similarly as a reward for the winning of six out of nine baseball games from Pinee ton, Yale, Michigan and Pennsylvania, provided that the six victories include two over Pennsylvania.