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...petition to make tennis a major sport, the Council voted: (1) that it was not in favor of establishing tennis on the basis of a major sport; (2) that it was in favor of the Athletic Association procuring a tennis coach, if that is possible, and (3) that it was in favor of granting the major letter to the winners of the singles and doubles in an intercollegiate tournament. A committee was appointed to draft the opinion of the Student Council on the subject, which resolution would be forwarded to the Athletic Committee...
...Geer, Director of Physical Training in an interview yesterday, said that he was in favor of making tennis a major sport at the University. If this were done, tennis could be organized on such a basis that it might be assigned to a regular place on the physical training program...
...Niles '09 and Major F. W. Moore '93 have also expressed their opinion that tennis be ranked as a major sport...
Heretofore it has been felt that too few men gained the advantage of participating in organized athletics in college. The figures show that the new policy has achieved the end of making organized sport the occupation of the many rather than the few. Eighty Freshmen are playing football; 17 are playing soccer; 28 are engaged in fall baseball; there are nine men playing lacrosse; 39 men are reporting every day for fall track athletics and cross-country; 145 are engaged in fall rowing. All these men are reporting every day to regular coaches, and thus getting from five...
Announcement was made yesterday of the appointment of the Harvard Athletic Committee for the current academic year of 1919-20. The undergraduate members of the committee were nominated, according to the regular method, at a meeting of the captains and managers of the major sport teams held recently in President Lowell's office. These nominations have just been confirmed by the Corporation...