Word: sported
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Basketball, as a national indoor sport, is not more than 25 years old. 'Students of the game generally regard Professor James Naismith as the father of the game. He was a professor at the Spring field Young Men's Christian Association Training College at the time. His idea was to create some sort of a game for indoors that would correspond with football, but with the rougher elements of the great college game eliminated...
...only this," comments Webb, "but the game has not improved as a sport wherein fundamentals have held their own against 'breaks' and outright luck, and it is quite natural that the forward pass should stand the blame...
...meeting of the minor sport council was held last night in order to devise plans to stimulate interest in minor sports among the members of the University. For a number of years, interest in minor sports has been lagging and on account of the comparatively few men competing, minor teams have not been very successful...
...carry out its plans, the council appointed a committee to see about a training table, the awarding of insignia to members of the various teams, and to formulate plans to establish a minor sport club in the University...
...experiment made by Yale last year in reviving boxing as an intercollegiate sport, proved successful in every sense and a boxing team will be organized for this coming winter. The Yale faculty approves of the plan to arrange meets with other colleges and five or six will be arranged for Feburary and March...