This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...the varsity. The team succeeded in making an average of 500 per cent in the league and was prevented from getting a better place more by inexperience than by lack of ability. These men will all be in school next year and by that time should be in a condition to be made into a winning team. The result of the season in women's basketball proved to be very disappointing. The team made their trip to California enjoying all the confidence possible, but returned with three defeats and no victories. With but one exception, the squad of twelve will return next year, and backed by this year's experience should be able to retrieve their losses. Intercollegiate track and baseball have proved to be impossible this year for several reasons, the main one being the shortening of the semester and the speeding up of the program. In spite of the lack of intercollegiate activity, baseball has been given an impetus that it will not be likely to loose for some time. From what has already been said it seems that Nevada should enjoy more success in athletics in the coming year than in the past. There will be available at least a nucleus of veterans for each team and means of getting out enough additional material to work on. Physical training and athletics will be put in an organized and stable condition by the proposed physical-training classes. Certainly the outlook is for a better year than Nevada has just gone through, but a lesson has been learned in the premature counting of chickens, especially in such unsettled times as the present. The 1916 football season opened early In September, and there was considerable speculation on the possibilities of the season. A few of the old guard were back, and on the whole, things looked promising but very uncertain....