1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

126 THE SCROLL.athletics, and not only has he aided greatly in advancingSyracuse to the front rank in that direction, but in otherdepartments of college as well. He is ever ready to helpthe student in difficulties. As the right hand man of thechancellor, he has patched up many difficulties between thechancellor and the various classes.The athletic interests of Syracuse were at a low ebb tenyears ago. Then there was no splendid athletic field with itsgreat quarter-mile track, and ground laid out for baseball,track, and football. It was in the first year of ChancellorDay's rule that the Archibold Field, with its excellent facilities,was completed. Since then the growth in all branchesof athletics has been wonderful. In the early nineties it wascounted as remarkable to have a football or baseball teamdefeat Colgate or Rochester. Two years ago the crackColumbia eleven awoke one fine November morning to seeorange men from the Salt City depart from the gridironwith the trophies of victory. The preceding year saw thestar Cornell baseball team get neatly trimmed by a score ofsix to one. Recently three successive years have witnessedthe orange track team take fifth place at the inter-collegiateMott Haven games. Such men as Prinstein, Lee, Whitemore,Lewis, Waite, Gardner, Scrafiford, and Will Lowehave assisted in this remarkable feat. The more noteworthyas only seven or eight men are sent down each year to competewith the cracks of the whole country.The university navy is the latest branch of sport Syracusehas developed. This was started through the generosityof Lyman C. Smith. It is now but four years old.In that brief time its growth has been almost phenomenal.Coach E. R. Sweetland, who recently severed his connectionwith the university, is the man who saw the birth of thenavy and assisted materially in bringing i£ to its presentprosperity and success. Last year the orange was representedby two strong crews, 'varsity and freshman, atPoughkeepsie. The freshman crew gained an easy victoryover the junior Harvard eight on Lake Cayuga last May,and also pushed the junior Cornell crew hard for first place.Last year more than eighteen thousand dollars wereraised and expended on athletics. A generation ago it wasa hard proposition to raise one-fourth that sum. Coachesare now chosen and training tables kept for the regularbranches of the work. This is one result of the increased