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...mind athletics in the English universities are run on a much better basis than in the American. The entire spirit is different over here,--and I think healthier. From what I have seen in both countries I have been led to the conclusion that the Englishman loves sport more than the American. He will go out to play golf in the middle of a raging snowstorm with the thermometer down to ten. And when the conditions of the ground and weather preclude any possibility of the hounds being able to follow the scent, he will go hunting just the same...
...student bodies. The means of insuring good sportsmanship and strict amateur standing in college athletics is not through compulsion of any sort, but through the education of college public opinion. When every college man realizes that the game itself, and not its result, is the really important thing in sport, there will be no fear of professionalism or anything like it. The prevalent idea that it is a positive disgrace to lose a game is what is largely responsible for most of the present difficulty, and when it gives way to the feeling that it is worse than a disgrace...
Football has a place and an important place in school and college life. We must see that it is kept in its place. Above all, the lovers of the game must see to it that a good clean sport shall not be open to the suspicion of becoming a semi-professional business...
...know are ignoble. It is to their credit that most of them have sense enough as well as courage enough to stand against it. We believe the great body of alumni will approve this stand and that it will also have the approval of all the lovers of clean sport whose good opinion is worth having
...There are two things that every university can and ought to do to create a higher tone in athletics. The first is that every university. . . . must make absolutely sure that its representatives stand for clean sport on every athletic field. . . We at Princeton wish above everything else in our athletic relations to other universities that it may be said of our teams "There is a body of clean sportsmen.' . . . We must be sure here at Princeton that we have absolutely unquestioned amateurs on our teams. There should not be any subsidizing of athletics . . . ." All this is pertinent, and preventative steps...