. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide. rom mid-floor, and, in winning the game, wonthe championship and took the Heppe Cup for the secondconsecutive year. Notwithstanding the great interest in the league race, therewas unusual appreciation of the usual good teams turned outby Swarthmore, West Point, Annapolis, Syracuse, Rochester,Pennsylvania State and the College of the City of New much interest was manifest in the playing of these teamsthat it is too bad that a second league is not formed. Itwould, of course, make too cumbersome a schedule to includeall these teams in th
. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide. rom mid-floor, and, in winning the game, wonthe championship and took the Heppe Cup for the secondconsecutive year. Notwithstanding the great interest in the league race, therewas unusual appreciation of the usual good teams turned outby Swarthmore, West Point, Annapolis, Syracuse, Rochester,Pennsylvania State and the College of the City of New much interest was manifest in the playing of these teamsthat it is too bad that a second league is not formed. Itwould, of course, make too cumbersome a schedule to includeall these teams in the Eastern League, and the proper wayto do would be to have two or more separate leagues andthus focus the already great interest there is in the work ofthese teams. But the keenest interest was exhibited in the EasternIntercollegiate League. While the teams started the seasonmore evenly matched than ever before, if there was a favor-ite it was Pennsylvania, with four players of the winningfive of the year previous remaining in its line-up; and yet. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 9 there was no clear division of sentiment favoring any oneteam. Columbia, it was known, would be dangerous, for while allof the champion players of the year before were lost bygraduation, save Captain Benson, nevertheless the NewYorkers were known to have good material, and the otherteams respected them from the start. Cornell, which had come into its own in 1911, for the firsttime was the dark horse, while with the advent of Dr. Ray-croft, late of the University of Chicago, at Princeton, theTiger stock took a decided boom, and Princeton, for the firsttime in years, was regarded as a serious competitor. Yale, with the usual rugged Yale team, was to be fearedas ever, while Dartmouth, the newcomer in the league, wassomewhat of an unknown quantity. Pennsylvania was a disappointment from the start. Turner,who the year before had proved to be a star, fell down mis-erably in foul shooting, and the Quakers lost
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