. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . a championship team, so that arare schedule of games is in prospect. Columbia, with everyone of last years champion team back, has the advantage onpaper, of course, but Columbia will have to play a very goodbrand of basket ball to win the first leg on the handsome silvercup which has been presented to the new league by Mr. F. of Philadelphia. Mr. Heppe has stipulated that the team to win permanentpossession of the cup must win three championships. Following are the scores of games played between the teamsthat formerly composed the Ea
. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . a championship team, so that arare schedule of games is in prospect. Columbia, with everyone of last years champion team back, has the advantage onpaper, of course, but Columbia will have to play a very goodbrand of basket ball to win the first leg on the handsome silvercup which has been presented to the new league by Mr. F. of Philadelphia. Mr. Heppe has stipulated that the team to win permanentpossession of the cup must win three championships. Following are the scores of games played between the teamsthat formerly composed the Eastern Collegiate Basket BallLeague: Dec. 16—Pennsylvania, ^t, ; Princeton, 15 ; at 7—Columbia, 40; Princeton, 9; at New 13—Cornell, 28; Pennsylvania, 11; at 15—Columbia, 27; Princeton, 15; at 19—Yale, s^; Princeton, 22; at New 22—Pennsylvania, 31; Yale, 20: at 8—Columbia, 29; Yale, 21; at New 12—Columbia, :^3; Pennsylvania, 11; at New York,. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 9 Review of the Eastern CollegiateBasket Ball Season By Ralph Morgan, University of Pennsylvania. The winter of 1909-1910 was one of fast basket ball. Itseemed as though the development of previous years came toa head at several of the colleges, for there were no less thansix remarkable teams in the East, any one of which was goodenough to be styled champions. Columbia, with an unbroken record of victories for theseason, must be conceded the championship, although it mustbe admitted that the title was not so clearly earned as in 1909,since the New Yorkers played a greatly restricted schedulewhen compared to former years. Columbia failed to meet WestPoint, Rochester, Annapolis, Williams and Swarthmore; andall of these teams were of championship calibre. Notwithstanding, great honor is due to Columbia, for it waswith a green and light team that the New Yorkers opened theseason. The Blue and White lads playe
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