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quite necessary. We're still pretty mad
about it. We don't want to see it happen
again. That's why we are bringing up
this Tribune of the Plebes business.
We recall one boy who came to say
goodbye that first year. He was being
busted, he said. He made no complaint
because he'd passed only eight hours and
had conditioned the others. He said h~
hadn't loafed and had tried hard, but
somehow he could not make the stuff
stick. Perhaps he'd had too many other
things on his mind. He didn't mention
it, but we knew he'd been hit at St.
Mihiel and had gotten more than a
whiff of phosgene in the Argonne. His
room-mate told us once he was a difficult
person to live with, because he cried in
his sleep so much.
It didn't seem to us that this boy
ought to be busted—not the first time,
anyway—and Davy didn't think so
either when we told him. Davy went into
action so fast that he knocked over two
Sun compets and an assistant instructor
in getting out of Morrill and over to
Gold win Smith where the trouble was.
That night he telephoned us pretty late
that the judgment had been reversed and
the boy wouldn't have to go home after
all.
We ought to be looking around for
another good Tribune of the Plebes and
breaking him in right now. And don't
let anybody tell you in avoidance that
to get one would necessarily require
another administrative office, trustee
action, and an additional salary.
Davy Hoy had no title and didn't get
a cent for being Tribune of the Plebes.
He did it on his own time!
ANOTHER "E" AWARD
Copperweld Steel Co., of which William
K. Frank Ίi is chairman of the
board, received August 2. the Army-
Navy "E" at its plant in Glassport, Pa.
On leave from his company, Frank has
been chairman of the Resources Protection
Board of the WPB in Washington,
D. C. The Army-Navy "E" is given for
excellence in war production.
ROTC JUNIORS MAY RETURN
Possibility that many of the 2.46
Juniors in the University who completed
the first year in the advanced ROTC and
were ordered to active duty for training
last May, may come back this fall, is seen
by Colonel Edwin R. Van Deusen, commanding
officer of Army units here. The
Military Department has notified all
these men, now in replacement training
centers, of a regulation from fhe Adjutant
General that they may return to college
pending vacancies in officer candidate
schools. Still on active duty, they will be
enrolled in the Army Specialized Training
Program and "will be given academic instruction
designed to make them useful
officers in their branch. Military instruc-
tion will continue during this college
period." It is assumed that men thus detailed
will remain in the University six
to nine months.
About
ATHLETICS
TEN FOOTBALL GAMES
Adjustment and readjustment of football
dates and opponents culminated last
week in announcement that the team
would play ten games this fall, beginning
September 18 against Bucknell, on
Schoellkopf Field. This is the first tengame
football schedule since 1914, when
a Cornell team coached by Dr. Albert H.
Sharpe defeated Ursinus, Carlisle, Bucknell,
Brown, Holy Cross, Franklin and
Marshall, Michigan, and Pennsylvania,
and lost to Pittsburgh and Colgate.
Bucknell and Sampson Naval Training
Station have been added and Penn State
takes the place of Syracuse, which gave
up football when it became certain that
Army trainees would not be allowed to
play on college teams where they are
stationed.
The Colgate game October 2.7, will be
played in Syracuse in response to requests
of Colgate officials, according to
Robert J. Kane '34, Acting Director of
Physical Education and Athletics, if
arrangements for a playing field can be
made. This date was originally scheduled
for the game with Syracuse University
after an earlier trade with Princeton.
The schedule now stands:
September 18 Bucknell at Ithaca
X5 Sampson Naval Station
at Ithaca
October 2. US Naval Academy at
Baltimore
9 Princeton at Princeton
16 Holy Cross at Ithaca
13 Colgate at Syracuse
30 Columbia at Ithaca
November 6 Penn State at Ithaca
13 Dartmouth at Boston
15 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
The Naval Academy game in Municipal
Stadium, Baltimore, Md., is called for
7 p.m.
Kane said that arrangements for the
game with the Sampson Naval Training
Station included agreement that Sampson
would not use former professional players,
but for that day would conform to
the same eligibility rules as Cornell.
Cornell and Bucknell will play football
for the first time in twenty-six years,
except a spring practice game on Schoellkopf
Field in 1937. Cornell won all but
one of eighteen games played between
1888 and 1917.
Coach Carl Snavely called off football
practice between August 2.5 and 30, then
renewed the drills six days a week. Many
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of the Navy V-ii and US Marine Corps
Reserve men who started practice July 19
have since dropped out because of the
time demanded for their studies.
TRACK TEAM UNDEFEATED
Meanwhile summer term teams in three
sports turned in five victories against
two defeats as two of them completed
their seasons.
Undefeated was the track team coached
by John F. Moakley. It won easy victories
over Penn State, 93-2-/3—37-1/3, on
Schoellkopf Field August 14 and over
Colgate, 86—45, at Hamilton August 2.1.
These meets completed home-and-home
series.
Top performer was David A. Scott,
Jr. '45 of St. Louis, Mo., who won the
no-yard high and xxo-yard low hurdles
in all four meets. James W. Bates
'47 of Riverside, R.I., who had trailed
John P. Arrigoni, Naval Aviation cadet
of Binghamton, in the first two meets,
won the 100- and iio-yard dashes against
Penn State, then bowed to Clement Furey
of Colgate and Arrigoni in the sprints at
Hamilton.
Captain Andrew Lawrence, Navy V-ii
of Flushing, won the mile and 880-yard
runs against Penn State, but bowed to
Luciano of Colgate in their return duel
at Hamilton. Luciano thus reversed the
decision won by Lawrence in their first
meeting at Ithaca and bore out a prediction
of Assistant Coach Edward G. Ratkoski
'35, made August 7, that Luciano
would be tough in the Hamilton meet.
Everett F. Perryman '44 of Sheridan,
Wyo., won the two-mile run in both
meets.
In the field events Ralph C. Calcagni,
USMCR, of Smithton, Pa., won the shotput
twice, as did Ferdinand Wascoe '45 of
Trenton, N.J., the javelin throw. Calcagni
was football captain-elect at University
of Pennsylvania.
BASEBALL WINS, LOSES
The baseball team defeated Columbia,
4-3, in New York City August 14 after
taking an 11-10 decision from the local
Inter-County League All-Stars in a sixinning
practice game on Hoy Field
August 11, then lost, 5-10, to Colgate on
Hoy Field August 2.1.
With two games left to play, the team
has won four and lost three.
The Colgate game marked the first time
that Donald R. Clay '45, USMCR, of
Milton, Mass., has been knocked out of
the box since the summer of 1942.. Cornell
outfumbled Colgate in that game, committing
two misplays in the third inning,
which, combined with two bases on balls
and a lone hit, gave the visitors three unearned
runs. But the big collapse came in
the eighth inning when Colgate scored
six times on five hits, a base on balls,
and another error.
Including the Colgate game, the team's