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...Williams 2nd 16, in a recent interview, said he favored making tennis a major sport at the University. He added that by so bestowing on tennis the prestige of a major sport in would become yet more popular...
...Williams was captain of one of the most successful tennis teams the University ever had. He won the Inter-collegiates in 1915, and has been twice National singles champion, Mr. Williams is the second former University tennis captain to favor making tennis a major sport, N. W. Niles '09 having expressed the same opinion in the CRIMSON last spring...
...make tennis a major sport? In what better way can the desire of both Faculty and undergraduates to create more participation in athletics be satisfied? Men would be interested in something which would afford them pleasure and exercise during their whole lives. Nothing so inspires a man to work for a team as the hope of reward in the form of a straight letter. The University has excellent facilities for playing. The four fields, Divinity, Jarvis, Holmes and Soldiers', if all properly cared for, could handle easily more than a hundred players every day. No vast new expense would...
...successful in making a popular appeal, professional football will deal a heavy blow at the spirit which has made football almost unique among college sports. Football has obtained its position as the college sport par excellence largely because of its freedom from the taint of commercialism. By nature a rough, and at times a brutal game, football is never theless dominated by the amateur spirit, and the thousands of boys and young men who play it in our schools and colleges do it for love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing...
...total Standish score as would the first team if it won. Thus, the dormitory score will be helped as much by a second team as by a first team victory. At the end of the season the points of all the teams of each dormitory, in all the sports, will be added, and the greatest total will be the winner. Thus the "all-round" championship is decided by every sport concerned, not by a single team...