Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Frank Lombardi), 147 (Myles Cunningham), and unlimited (John Rosenthal). In addition, there will be a 191-pound affair for the freshman match only, and Tony Caimi, quarterback on the football team, will fill the post for Harvard. The Naval School is an unknown quantity; it is a prep school and competes against teams like Tabor...
...College is going to be fairly successful against even its own kind, however, more than a negative approach--like rescheduling--is necessary. As Yale's athletic director has pointed out, the problem of football at a college that refuses to be a paying prep school for professional leagues is an alumni problem. It is up to the graduate to persuade men that Harvard is a school worth attending, that financial and job problems can be solved ethically, that Harvard is still interested in others besides potential summas, and is willing to concede that education does not necessarily include winning...
What the freshmen want most is increased attendance at their games. They complain that their schedule involves conflicting with varsity contests and playing out of Cambridge when the varsity is away. The conflict problem arises mainly in scheduling prep schools which do not like to release their students for Friday games. But here a small amount of H.A.A. pressure on the schools could prove a boost to freshman morale. And when the varsity was at Princeton, the freshman played at Brown, leaving their followers behind and collecting another justifiable gripe...
...Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time extroverts, and Trumbull and Saybrook are shunned as "black shoe" choices. These dis- tinctions are pretty spurious since a Council of Masters carefully plants a balance of high school men, prep school men, and scholarship students in each College. Fraternities don't rush until the sophomore year, when students have been assigned to a College, so the distribution of aristocracy in a College becomes somewhat a matter of chance...
...factors are mainly responsible for this. During the war years, high schools and prep schools emphasized non-varsity sports more than before--so that postwar freshmen entered college "intramurally-minded...