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Reports of the committees appointed in the last meeting to investigate the advisability of making polo a regular minor sport, and of making changes in class colors, will be delayed until that date...
...watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty of Versailles. Others were more skeptical; among them...
...effect that the committee is planning what will amount to a national football tournament for early December, 1926. These plans conflict directly with a newer tendency of undergraduate opinion in some of the larger Eastern universities, which, while maintaining football in its proper place as a college sport, would oppose the menace of commercialism. Some enthusiastic and short-sighted people, forgetful of or callous to the future of football in American colleges, would prostitute it now to provide an athletic head-liner for the amusement of the multitude at Philadelphia's celebration...
...Participation in such a contest, involving as it does both greater national interest than over before, and the hysterical atmosphere of a tremendous crowd, undoubtedly runs counter to the more reasonable and less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving to foster. In becoming the greatest spectacle in American life, football has concerned itself too much with the interest of the spectators. Colossal stadiums have been build, rotogravure sections filled with pictures of individual players. The "Big Three", as they are termed, constituted the cradle...
...committee was also formed to investigate the polo situation. It is felt that in view of the polo team's success last year and of the increasing interest in the game, recognition should be given the players and polo should be placed on a minor sport basis. The committee appointed to consider this question was composed of J. N. Watters '26, chairman, and C. G. T. Lundell...