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

THE SCROLL. 381MASSACHUSETTS ALPHA. WILLIAMS COLLEGE.On March 12 the basketball season closed with the Wesleyan game atWilliamstown. Out of twenty-two games, this year's team has won fifteenand lost seven. Columbia, Brown and Minnesota were the only teams outof the league which downed the purple. In the triangular league series,Dartmouth defeated Williams three times by exceptionally close scores, thussecuring first place. Williams, however, by a marked brace in the latterpart of the season, twice won from Wesleyan, and ensured herself secondhonors. Cowell, '06, A Z A captained the team throughout the season.Wadsworth, '05, A T is the captain-elect.The baseball season opens April 15 with the Andover game at Andover.Twenty-five games in all are scheduled including contests with Yale, Harvard,Princeton, and West Point. Breckinridge will coach the team, and expectsto turn out an aggregation of strong hitters. Bro. Northup, '04, managesthe team. With the large majority of last year's nine still in college, theprospects for a championship season are remarkably good.The football management has been exceptionally fortunate in securingEly, the famous Yale quarterback, to coach the'eleven next fall. Harvard,Columbia, and West Point are among the strong eastern elevens whichWilliams will meet.Since the last letter, Massachusetts Alpha has secured her full share ofcollege honors. At the annual election of the assistant football managerfrom the sophomore class, there was the largest college meeting held inrecent years. Bro. Case, '06, on the first ballot secured 156 votes, onlythree short of an election, and on the next ballot was easily elected. Heassumes the full management after the close of the next fall season. Bro.Hulst, '06, was elected editor-in-chief of the '06 Gulielmensian, the collegeannual which each junior class publishes. Bro. A. P. Newell, '05, has takenup the duties of editor-in-chief of the Williams Record, and by a unanimousvote of the board, the paper has been changed from a weekly to a semiweekly.The chapter letter, issued at the press of Bro. Geo. Banta, is out, and isin the hands of the alumni and the different chapters.Williamstown, April 2, 1904.ALBERT P. NEWELL.RHODE ISLAND ALPHA, BROWN UNIVERSITY.We have just returned from our spring vacation, college opening March30. Brown has been in a state of turmoil for the last few months in regardto her athletics, and the sequel of it all is yet to come. At the close of lastyear the board of athletic directors of the university, composed of students,faculty and alumni, voted to change the eligibility rule in regard to summerball playing, allowing students to play on semi-professional nines. Thecorporation of the university, however, has seen fit, since the announcementof the change in rule, to forbid any athletic games whatsoever to be playedunder the changed rules. Therefore the students are resolved to make thebest of it and to play a team the members of which shall lie eligible in everysense of the word. The outlook at present is rather dubious, as none of lastyear's championship team will consent to play unless the rule is changed.Brown will have an altogether new team, but one that will be pure to itscore. A southern practice trip, which had been arranged, has been canceledon account of the poor team. Brown has a schedule yet to be played whichhas never been excelled in our baseball career, and it seems rather hard tomany that we can not have a repre.=!entative team. The board which passed