Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1917 — METHOD TO REWARD PLAYERS [ARTICLE]

METHOD TO REWARD PLAYERS

Cornell University Permits Winners of Baseball and Football Games to Wear Prizes. Cornell university has adopted a new method of rewarding football and baseball players for winning games, which has been indorsed by the athletic council w 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 baaeballs may be worn similarly as a reward for the winning of six out of nine baseball games from Princeton, Yale, Michigan and Pennsylvania, provided the six victories [ include two over Pennsylvania.