The year 1914 among college athletic teams has shown no great advantage of one college over any other. In many branches of sport, the various institutions have been so closely matched that it has been very difficult to determine to whom the championship should be awarded. This is so true of the past intercollegiate baseball season that no award has been made. The title of champion in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse is given to those who lead their respective leagues, while in track, swimming, gymnastics, cross-country, golf, fencing, and wrestling the results of the intercollegiate tournaments are used as a basis. The other awards in the other sports are made after a consideration of the results of the schedules of the various teams, and of the comments there-on by competent sporting critics.
No college won more than one major sport championship, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton each gaining this honor. Cornell leads in the number of highest honors won with four wins and one tie to its credit, Harvard comes next with two wins, and two shared with Princeton in golf and tennis, Columbia third with two wins and one tie, and Princeton fourth with one championship and two ties. It is interesting to note that these are also the four colleges to win major sport titles. Johns Hopkins, New York University, Pennsylvania, and Yale each have one highest honor to their credit. Two association football titles were won, one in the spring and one in the fall, due to the fact that the intercollegiate league changed its schedule this year. Harvard secured the first, and Pennsylvania the second.
The University swimming team did not enter the intercollegiate meet, and Harvard is not represented by a basketball five.
Following is a table of the sports and the title-winners:
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