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...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 of abolishing it. There is no excuse whatever for colleges failing to show the same capacity, and there is no real need for considering the question of the abolition of the game. If necessary...
...regular practice on Soldiers Field will probably begin during the last week of February, and practice games will be held daily in order to develop as much team play as possible before the southern trip, which will come as usual during the spring recess. The schedule for the latter part of the season will include a trip to Western New York and the usual intercollegiate games. The interclass series will be played soon after the recess...
Since the Christmas recess the University team has been steadily improving in team play, speed, and stick work; but it has not had enough opportunity to practice and to develop the game that its members are capable of. The forwards in the game with Springfield on Wednesday showed a tendency at times to be wild in shooting and to start far too slowly. The playing, however, of the ends and the point in this game was very encouraging. As yet the defense has not had a real test, for all the teams that have been played so far have shown...
Neither team has had sufficient opportunity to develop good team play because of the poor weather conditions. The Sophomores, however, have played and won two games, and have made the better showing...
This is the English system. It is an old one. It has taken a century no doubt to develop it. The boy begins in his school days under the eyes of a master who was athletic, in his days, and the eyes of his older schoolmates. He does this for pleasure; but if he finds no fun in it, he does it because he must. He will be punished if he doesn't, either by the scorn of his fellows or the kicks of the upperclassmen. He has his sport for five or six years until he loves...