FRESHMEN ENGAGED IN ATHLETICS NUMBER 723

As a part of their regular physical training program, 723 Freshmen this fall signed up for regular exercise with the Department of Physical Education, breaking last year's record of 600 by 123 men. Of the total number of students enrolled this fall, 658 signed up for organized athletics while the remainder took the equitation course of the Military Science Department or joined the 5 o'clock gym class at Hemenway.

As was the case last year, rowing led as the most popular activity with 169 men participating, while tennis was second with 124. Coach Campbell's record football squad of 113 men took third place, outstripping by 43 last year's turnout of gridiron men.

In former seasons track has usually held fourth place in popularity, but this fall with 45 men out it was sent down to seventh place by handball with 58, swimming with 55 and the equitation class which had 52 men enrolled.

Next to football, handball showed the most marked growth, the 25 players enrolled last year increasing to 58 this fall. Rising from 17 to 35 cross-country also showed marked increase, while the equitation class came up from 23 to 52.

The only sports to show any falling off in numbers were track, which dropped from 61 to 45, and lacrosse, which decreased from 7 to 3.

The following list shows the number of men enrolled in each sport during the past two falls: 1920  1921 Rowing,  145  169 Football,  70  113 Tennis,  115  124 Handball,  25  58 Swimming,  41  55 Track,  61  45 Cross-Country,  17  35 Soccer,  20  26 Lacrosse,  7  3 Equitation,  23  52 Gym Class,  14  13 Squash for managers,  17  30 Baseball,  45  .. Total,  600  723