Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — The Rank of College Athletes. [ARTICLE]

The Rank of College Athletes.

A. Yale correspondent gives these facts about the standing of men prominent is college sports, so far as that college is concerned: “Taking up the list of those who received appointments at the graduation in 1876,1 find the name-of one base-ball man, four football men, and one of the crew; also the winner of the four out of the five events of the spring athletic meeting. Among the composition prize men, two football men and one of the crew. The Townsend prize in the law school was taken by a crew man. In ’77 I find the valedictorian a foot-ball man, and the shortstop of the ball nine on the appointment list. In TB, on the appointment list is two base-ball and two football men. while the recipient of the Scott prize is the right-fielder on the ball nine, and the first French prize is taken by a foot-ball man, two of the crew and the cox-twain, and in the same class the sophomore mathematical prize is taken by a foot-ball man. In ’BO on the appointment list are three foot-ball men, one base-ball man, and one of the crew. In ’Bl on the appointment list are five foot-ball men, one base-ball man, and two of the crew, while the second man in the class is a foot-ball man, and one of the five Townsend men is also on the team. In ’B2 on the appointment list are four foot-ball, three base-ball, and two crew men; the winner of the junior exhibition prize is a foot-ball man and on the crew; the Scott prize man is a foot-ball man. Finally, in the last catalogue, I find the lacrosse cover-point dividing the Woolsley prize for the highest examination in the studies of the year with a loot-hall, half-back and a baseball man—the same man taking the mathematical prize and the first Berkeley, while a foot-ball man takes the Hurlburt scholarship and a second Berkeley. The Scott prize is taken by the President of the Hare and Hounds club, and I find two crew men, a coxtwain, and a base-ball player among the junior appointments.