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Lawrence Perry, Sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, has taken up the question of professional football which is causing much notice at present. He believes that such an introduction of professionalism into the sport which causes most attention of any intercollegiate activity would materially detract from the college games. His article is as follows...
...professional football becomes an established fact throughout the country a great intercollegiate sport will face disintegration. There are features associated with the game as it stands at present that do not appeal to our university authorities nor to the more thoughtful elements among the alumni; but they are elements that can be dealt with and eventually eliminated. But with the game roaring through the country on a strictly professional basis no great stretch of imagination is required to picture effects on the college game--the flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo...
...facts it would be well for our university and college authorities to take some radical stand against the innovation. It is not clear what they could do to protect their young men from the pernicious influences; but as least they could wipe out a feeding ground for the professional sport by abolishing the game altogether...
...proposition to award the university letter to managers of major sport teams has aroused so much opposition in undergraduate circles that the Athletic Council deemed it wise to postpone action until the matter could be further studied. Both senior societies have come out strongly against the plan, on the ground that the "C" should be given for athletics only, and for nothing else. The proposal has also been condemned by the Cornell Sun, representing the undergraduate body. As the managers who would be benefited by the plan hold seats on the Council, a determined effort is likely to be make...
...Sport on Skiis at Dartmouth...