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Following Lampy's hors d'oeuvre the table of contents is served as a meat course. It is as rich as duck with stuffing. Walter Camp, described as the father of American sport, is eulogized by Alfred Hampton Barclay. Ernest E. Rogers follows Mr. Barclay with a how made on behalf of New London...
Orders of Chivalry: Sir William Tyrrell, permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office; Baron Desborough, international sport; Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum; J. A. M. Elder, Australian Commissioner to the U. S.; John J. Broderick, commercial counsellor of the British Embassy at Washington...
President Humphreys of Stevens says that the rigid schedule of training, the consequent drain upon a student's time for study, and the injuries caused by "open play", justify the abolishment of the sport at that instituion. It is true that football has reached the point where the training of an athlete overtops every other consideration, studies not excluded; and the difference between amateurism and professionalism becomes largely a technicality. An amateur in football is certainly not an amateur in the general meaning of the word. But complaint on the score of injuries has less justification. Football, to be sure...
With such a prospect in front of it, the Crimson nine will be watched with interest this week by every college sport follower of the East. It was not long after the season started that it became apparent to some that a repetition of last year's two-game win for the Blue was well within the limits of possibility. As injury and defeat followed each other for Captain Hammond's nine, the odds mounted steadily on the Blue, and if the University is to take the New Haven field on Tuesday anything but the underdog, it will have...
...another publicity attempt of the Fox-Trot Association, the newspapers spread the reports of his fad for dancing through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu tribes, less foolhardy than the Duncan sisters, did not dare risk their little Evas, they nobly substituted themselves. At least some such explanation must surely suggest itself to those damsels who are still thrilling from the tread of the royal toes...