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...teams. G. G. Browne '10, H. Fish '10. G. L. Cutting '09 and V. P. Kennard '09 were appointed captains and the teams will be coached by H. R. Snyder 3L., N. Hall '07, M. L. Newhall '08 and C. D. Daly '01. Each team will be given a certain number of formations and regular scrimmages will be held during the next two weeks. Possibly a round robin tournament will be held later...
...Faculty that the standard of scholarship in the University has not improved in recent years, and we are in entire sympathy with any measures that will have the effect of permanently bettering the standard of scholarship. We also realize that in intercollegiate athletics as conducted at present there are certain elements detrimental to scholastic interests. The most important of these is the feeling among the undergraduates that athletics take precedence over studies; which manifests itself in cutting lectures on the days of important contests, in the distraction from studies previous to these, and in wholesale vacations after them...
...principal object of this practice are: (1) To save time in the fall by teaching the men certain fundamentals and rules now; (2) To give the captains and coaches a chance to know the men; (3) To try certain experiments with formations. Therefore it is absolutely essential that all candidates for the team, who are not prevented by other sports, should come out regularly as if it were in the fall season...
...athletic sports. He has since become one of the most interested and valuable members, and to feel that pressure of other work was to such a degree in effect as to render him unable longer to serve the University in this way is to be doubly regretted. We feel certain that in expressing sincere gratitude for the time and care spent by Dean Sabine while a member of the Committee we shall be voicing the sentiments of the entire University...
College men are very much interested in intercollegiate athletics, which give them an outlet for superfluous energy, that in no event would be expended on studies. Without them the undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...