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...action of the Athletic Committee, reported in your columns yesterday morning, there seems to be a move on foot to abolish all winter sports. Of all these sports, one of the most important is hockey. To abolish intercollegiate contests in this would be practically to do away with any interest in the sport, and would cut down the number of men playing, as there would be no call for a second team, and class teams would be made up of men now on the University squad. Hockey as a sport is one of the most exciting and probably the purest...
...football schedule has been approved with its full quota of games! But with its announcement comes a startling vote from the Athletic Committee, submitting for our consideration a proposition to abolish entirely all intercollegiate contests between the date of the Yale football game and the spring recess...
January 26--"A Public Nuisance which the Public is Beginning to Abolish--Disease," by Dr. R. C. Cabot...
...solution of the financial problem could in my opinion be found in this way: (1) sell to members of the University, for $5, or less if possible, an H. A. A. ticket admitting to all home games in every sport major and minor; (2) abolish subscriptions, except for class teams, and leave managers and candidates for managerships free for the legitimate work of their positions, getting men out and looking after the general needs of the teams; (3) support all teams which the Athletic Committee allows to represent the University from a common fund, accruing from gate receipts and ticket...
...that I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question...