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...devotees in a ratio somewhat similar to the order given above. Mr. Schrader of the Physical Training Department also conducts four sections in general athletics for Freshmen every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon. It is the plan of the department to enroll every member of 1923 in some organized sport, preferably one whose attraction and benefit will continue in after life, rather than in a class of calisthenics...
Virtually all of the victims of the 1919 season were players not participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...
...Recognition by colleges of lawn tennis as a major sport is a matter which I have very much at heart. The U. S. N. L. T. A. is anxious to do everything possible to accomplish this. You can therefore rely on whole-hearted assistance from us. I want nothing more than to have you send me the article which you speak of on this subject, and we will publish it in 'American Lawn Tennis' thus starting a vigorous campaign along these lines. I believe that in this way something worth while can be accomplished. Similar efforts are being made...
...that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng but beastely fury and extreme violence...
...representatives of France are reported to be more advanced in training than those of any other nation, with the possible exception of the United States. The training is being carried on at a camp near the Pershing Stadium, which is in reality a university of sport. Using the army organization as a background, the training is carried on with both civilian and military athletes...