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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -At the foot ball meeting held last evening, a committee of five gentlemen was appointed to alter the present rules of foot ball, in such a manner as to make the game less dangerous and brutal. I would like, through your columns, to make a suggestion as to these changes...
...protest against any rash condemnation of the game. I am sadly aware that the present tendency is to emasculate all games and exercises, and frown on strength and courage as old fashioned things, relics of the dark ages; to teach our youth that all games requiring these qualities are brutal and degrading...
...apply in both cases. The conditions for all would then be fairer, and scientific training and skilful playing would then be far more important elements of the game than they are at present. Join this to the reforms of the game which will do away with its unfair, brutal and unmanly elements, and we may again play the game at Harvard...
Saturday evening's edition of the Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...committee, instead of trying to prohibit the game, consult with those among us who understand the game of foot ball, as to what changes in the rules will do away with the "brutal" part of the game, (for, as Prof. Byerly has said, and he probably voices the opinion of the other members of the Committee, the dangerous element of the game is the least objectionable, especially since that would be greatly done away with, if the "brutal" element were eliminated.) Let us then have a chance to make the necessary changes in the rules at the convention...