Word: interclass
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...publications of several great Eastern colleges. Spurred by an editorial appearing in the Harvard CRIMSON which, after deploring the absurd overemphasis now placed on intercollegiate football contests, advocated such drastic reforms as sharply reduced schedules, abolition of scouts, spring practice, high-priced admission tickets, and sectional championships, while encouraging interclass games and coaching by graduates only, the student dailies of Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest, if not the most vociferous viewpoint of the undergraduate bodies, and we congratulate them for the courage...
...present agitation over the football situation has an amusing counterpart in the excltement concerning the game more than 60 years ago. Interclass football was abolished by order of the Faculty in 1860, due to the roughness in the annual Sophomore-Freshman game; and a pompous funeral of "Football Fightum" was held. An elaborate account of the funeral is given in a scrapbook kept by C. C. Read '64, and is reprinted below...
...first month of college interclass games will constitute the schedule...
...that period a varsity squad will be formed from the players who have shown the greatest ability in the interclass contests...
...Sophomore class football team won the 1925 interclass gridiron championship when it defeated the Seniors yesterday, 6 to 0, on Soldier's Field...