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...main trouble with football is that it has yielded to the spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this...
...Titanic column of brawn astounded sportsmen, last January (TIME, Jan. 19), by downing the mighty Ed ("Strangler") Lewis in Kansas City, thus acquiring the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...
...Wayne B. Munn," said Coach W. E. Lewis of the University wrestling team is physically more than we had anticipated. He is a splendid type of the big man, and he has brawn, not beef. He has a charming personality, a clean cut American. He talks like a trained thinker, probably because of his college education...
...necessary to change the fundamentally false attitude of the majority and the minority, too, is an adoption of the same policy for studies which is employed for play; "Athletics for all" must be paralleled by "Scholarship for all." Competition of brain must take its place by competition of brawn. Only so can the over emphasis on athletics, the sin of American colleges, be remedied...
Since the world began, big men have tried to justify their size by deeds of prowess, little men to prove that an ounce of agility is worth much ponderous brawn. In Newark, N. J., before a vast crowd, two men continued this controversy. Though the difference in their sizes was barely perceptible, one came into the lists as champion of the big men-Mike McTigue, the 160-pound, world's light-heavyweight champion. Mickey Walker, 149¾ pounds, world's best welterweight, stood up for the little men. They scuffled...