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There has always been one great objection to American football, -- that it was not a game, but a profession; that unlike baseball it could not be played for the sake of the game itself. "Scrub" baseball is admittedly possible, witness the success of the Leiter Cup series, but scrub football has been hitherto untried. This year however, the Haughton Cup is to be given for football, precisely as the Leiter Cup for baseball. Not only is there a chance for those who like the game, yet are not of University calibre, but there is also the opportunity to secure first...
...Sports clearly purposes to eradicate the practice sometimes indulged in by prominent athletes, of renting their names to the sporting columns of newspapers. To many this practice savors of professionalism while to others it appreciably lowers their estimation of sportsmanship as inculcated in the phrase "sport for sport's sake." The new rule will do away with any abuses without interfering with legitimate newspaper correspondence by men engaged in athletics...
...this time, out of a class of 640, only 380 Seniors have returned the Secretary's "lives", and only 420 have sent in the postals. For the sake of class unity, and to preserve their connection with it, all Seniors are urged to send in "lives" and postals at an early date...
Last week the crews underwent the difficulties and hardships of Arctic exploration to be on the river, and the soccer squad kicked a ball among the ice sheets and mud puddles of Soldiers Field for the sake of being out-of-doors. Today the fielding candidates for the nine don the glove, and the lacrosse men assume the stick. Tomorrow, figuratively speaking, others will exert themselves in track and football...
...stolen, should at once report the missing article and the circumstances of its loss to the Yard police. However trivial the loss may seem, it is from such clues that detection of the culprit and return of the stolen property have resulted in several instances. Not for his own sake alone, but for the sake of his fellow-students, the loser should co-operate with the Yard detectives in this...