YALE LEADS UNIVERSITY IN MINOR WINTER SPORTS

A summary of all the winter sport contests held since 1900 between the University and Yale, shows that Yale has a slight lead in the lesser contests such as basketball, swimming, and wrestling, but that the University is far ahead in hockey.

Prior to 1900 Harvard did not meet Yale in any of these sports although both universities had established teams a few years before. The first wrestling meet was in 1907, while water polo and swimming did not commence until two years later.

In the grand total of thirty hockey games between the University and Yale, Yale has won but nine. In the first few seasons the two universities won about an equal number of games, but, with the advent of Alfred Winsor '02 as hockey coach, Harvard lost only one game to Yale between 1903 and 1912, and consequently gained a big lead. Usually more than one game has been played in a season the team winning the majority of games being credited with the championship for the year. The series standing is Harvard, 13; Yale, 4.

In basketball Yale holds a large margin of victory over the University. Since 1909 there has been no Crimson basketball team but before that Yale had won twelve out of fifteen games, the majority of them by large scores. In the years that the University was a member of the Intercollegiate League, her team finished above Yale only once.

Yale has also had the advantage in swimming, winning both the dual meets in this branch of sport, and twice winning the open Intercollegiate Meet. At water polo, the University has only once opposed Yale but in that game she was successful. Yale has also come out ahead in the few dual wrestling meets that have been held, while in the Inter-collegiates in which both universities have competed Yale has every time amassed the greater score.