Tennis Succeeds Crew as Most Popular Freshman Sport, Physical Education Figures Reveal--Football Comes Third

According to figures given out by the Department of Physical Education at Wadsworth House, tennis has displaced crew as the most popular Freshman sport. Although there are 208 candidates for crew positions this year, an increase of one over 1928 and 11 over 1927, tennis has gained 31 in the last two years to take top honors with 214 candidates.

Securely in third position ranks football, with 137 first-year men having signed up for the squads-under-Head Freshman Coach A. E. French '29 and A. W. Somborski '25 in place of but 116 last fall.

Singles as a form of exercise has regained its former position of fourth in popularity by attracting 62 candidates, which number, although less than last year and the year before, holds its place because of the decline in popularity of track, which last fall 'crew the unusually large squad of 83 candidates, as compared with 49 of the Class of 1933, and 47 of 1931 in its Freshman year.

The rest of the fall sports open to Freshmen, with the number of men who have signed up for each, are as follows:

Swimming, 61; soccer, 35; fencing, 33; cross country, 31; handball, 28; managers, 20; polo, 11; lacrosse 11; hinking, 11; baseball 7, and special, 10.

This year, there is one new activity, which fulfills the requirements for Freshman physical exercise that of being in competition for one of the managerial positions. Three of last fall's occupations, one of which held sixth place in the ranking, have failed to make their appearance for the Class of 1933. Squash, which drew but three aspirants in 1928, and the gymnasium class, which has annually attracted a small number of Freshmen, are not listed this fall, while Equitation, heretofore an activity which had 40 to 50 followers, is no longer a satisfactory requirement for the demands of the Department.