WELL MANAGED ATHLETICS,
How the Cadets at West Point Have
Accomplished So Much.
{Harmon S. Graves in Collier’s Weekly.]
The West Point football team has,
by its splendid record for the past few
seasons, made itself interesting to
opposing teams in particular and the
football public in general. One could
hardly believe that but ten years ago
athletics in any form were virtually
unknown at the Military Academy.
At that time the exercises at the gymna-
sitm under the direction of the Aca-
demy sword-master, and perhaps an
impromptu field day in the Spring, were
all the athletics that the cadets took
part in outside of their regular exercises
and drills. Whatever was done was
most informal and by the cadets them-
selves, as the officers at the post had
nothing to do with any effort the cadets
might make in this direction. It
seemed impossible, with the very limited
time at the disposal of the cadets,
to ever hope to compete with any out-
side organization, and yet a glance at
the athletic situation at West Point to-
day shows how much has been well -
done in a wonderfully short time.. All
branches of athletics are now controlled
by the Army Officers’ Athletic Associa-
tion, to which any officer in the army
may be elected, and all those stationed
at West Point are generally members.
This Association, which was organized
in 1892, elects a representative for foot-
ball, baseball, tennis, and general ath-
letics, and these representatives have
complete charge of, and are in a measure
accountable for, the department in their
charge. The cadets have organizations
of their own, which work in conjunc-
tion with the Officers’ Association, and
particularly with the representatives of
that Association.
The expenses of all branches of ath-
letics are met by personal subscription
oi the members of the Officers’ Associa-
tion and by the cadets. In no case is
any charge made for admission to
games, and these subscriptions are the
sole source of revenue. About Christ-
mas time each year the annual meeting
of the Officers’ Association is held and
the reports of the different representa-
tives read. These reports are carefully
prepared, and are most interesting,
always making suggestions for the bet-
ter conduct of affairs the following year.
The whole situation is handled with
ability and a refreshing care for details,
and would furnish a lesson indeed for
other institutions whose experience has
been three times as great. With such
careful management and the sportsman-
like spirit which prevails, there results
the best type of amateur sport.
In baseball and football West Point
meets the different college teams. In
football the schedule is a thoroughly
representative one, embracing all the
best elevens. The baseball schedule,
thus far, has not included the teams of
the large universities, though the play-
ing ability of the West Point nines is
improving, and it is safe to predict that
such games will be annual events in
the near future. Tennis, as far as the
cadets are concerned, is purely local
and necessarily so, for the cadets cannot
get away to enter college tournaments.
Some of the officers, however, have at-
tained a high degree of excellence and
their names are seen among the entries
of the best amateur tournaments, and
several prizes have been brought back
to West Point. The cadets play a little
golf, and polo is now to be encouraged.
The cadets have been playing quite a
little during the past three years, but
are handicapped by having no good
saddles for the game. Now a dozen
special saddles have been purchased,
and the boys will be given the best
and smallest horses to play with.
The general athletics are confined to
competition among the cadets at their
annual Gymnasium Exhibition and
their Field Day. These contests are
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most interesting and entered into by
the cadets with a spirit which makes
each event exciting. The Winter meet-
ing in the gymnasium is quite up to the
indoor meets of other institutions. The
gymnasium is very well appointed and
the sword-master a fine. athlete. The
outdoor meets in the Spring are even
more interesting.
There is another branch of athletics
which West Point has exceptional op-
portunities to improve, and that is row-
ing. With the proper handling for a
few seasons, the cadets could put out
a splendid crew, and other crews would
be glad to row on the Hudson, near
West Point. Perhaps when the Mili-
tary Academy is made larger this can
be done, as it is very hard to keep up
a high standard of excellence in any : oe
branch of sport, to say nothing of too
many, when the whole number. of
cadets is below three hundred and fifty.
However, Annapolis has a crew, and
the Annapolis crew would doubtless be
well up in their trade, though history
has it that West Point has won from
her once on the water.
Football is, at present, the most
important branch of athletics at West
Point. Beginning less than ten years
ago, with no knowledge of the game
whatever, and with little time to learn
under the then rather hostile circum-
stances, West Point has, in so short a
time, made a splendid record, and her
rank to-day is among the best football
teams in the country.
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