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...heart may well consider and that is the high cost of football victories. I mean not only the cost in money but in the surrender of the higher academic interests, not to mention the surrender of moral principles. I speak of football because it is the one distinctively college sport and the one which arouses the greatest enthusiasm. The more reason, therefore, that we should keep it scrupulously free from every hint or suspicion of professionalism. We cannot say that this is so. Not a few of the most successful teams may be fairly described as technically within...
...three hundred can send a team which can defeat a university of four or five thousand without paying a price which no institution dedicated to learning has a right to pay. An editorial recently appeared in one of our metropolitan dailies entitled. "Football as a national sport." Professional baseball is a national sport and one which we all enjoy. It is a commercial enterprise perfectly legitimate and calling for no defense. If football is to be a national sport in any such sense let it be so and let it be put frankly on a professional basis...
...petition to recognize boxing as an intercollegiate sport in the University was voted down, as was the proposal to appropriate money for a trip of the tennis team to England this summer. It was decided to set aside the sum of money necessary to add six squash courts to Randolph Gymnasium. A lacrosse game with Oxford on April 25 was approved, and the appointments of Harold Brooks Walker '23 of Detroit, Mich, and of Edward George Lowry Jr. of Washington, D. C. as University and Freshman wrestling captains respectively, were ratified...
...wary of carrying golf clubs for money; that sin makes one a professional golfer. The amateur rules may sound ridiculously strict, but they are not unfair, for the fact is that if there is to be any erring at all it must be on the side of strictness. Sport for sport's sake really does mean something! And this is particularly true of college athletics...
...professional athlete in spirit he will adopt the 'first method, securing his education for which he is thirsting, at the same time avoiding amateur sport with which he has little in common. If he is an amateur he will follow the second plan--hundreds are doing just that--avoiding professional athletics with which he is not in sympathy for the sake of learning and the gain derived from clean sports...