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     One year ago, at Baltimore, a contest was held under
the auspices of the Maryland Horticultural Society, and
our representatives stood fifth.

     The Athletic Denartment of the University has shown great
activity within the last five years, and is ranking higher,
at present, than ever before with Southern teams.

     In 1912, nine football games were played, State winning
seven, with a total of 240 points to their opponents 41.   That
year they were defeated by V.M.I. and Miami.

     In 1913, six of the eight games played that year were
won by State. They were defeated by Illinois and Tennessee.

     In 1914, State won five of the eight games played that
year. They were defeated by Tennesseej Purdue and Cincinnati;
however, winning the game played with Mississippi A. & M.

     In 1915, eight games were played, State winning six, losing
only one with Mississippi A. & M. and tying Sewannee.

     This past year only seven games were played, our boys
winning four, losing the one with Vanderbilt, and tying
Sewanee and Tennessee.

     Last year Schrader was selected for A11 Southern team
in the Guide and Rhodes was selected universally for All
Southern. This was the first time this institution was
ever represented on an All Southern team. Within the last
few years, the northern papers, those of New York and Chicago,
have been collecting statistics and results of our games.
Only recently Parke H. Davies, the greatest football statis-
tician of the United States, has included the reports of the
University of Kentucky.  Withlin these five years the University
of Kentucky has not been defeated in football or baseball by
a Kentucky team.

     From the foregoing, you will observe that our students
have more than held their own in all contests which they have
had with the students of other universities and colleges of
the United States during the last five years, and this result
certainly shows that the work done here has been the equal
of that of any of the institutions with whom we have come in
competition and saperior to many of them.

     You have before you a copy of our Business Agent's
financial report to the first of December, which shows that
we have lived within our income as by law required. I commend
to you a patient and careful perusal of this report.

     On the November 15, 1916, the Executive Committee, in
regular session, passed a resolution consolidating the Mech-
anical and Electrical Engineering College with that of the
Civil Engineering, placing Dean F. Paul Anderson at the head
of the consolidated school. Since then Professor Norwood,
of his own motion, has endorsed the philosophy and expediency
of this move and requested that the College of Mines also be
included in the consolidation.  This I heartily recommend to