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...Herring, who has played on the football team at Princeton and on the rugby team at Oxford, has written for the "Princeton Alumni Weekly" the following comparison of college sport in England and America...
...University sport in England is primarily Oxford and Cambridge sport. It true that there are other universities England, but (except from the stand point of scholarship pure and simple) they count for little. 'To go up to the University' means ordinarily to become student at Oxford or Cambridge. It as been said that an understanding of English society is necessary to a comprehension of English politics. It might equally well have been said of English University sport. Both politics and 'varsity sport' are the amusements of a class which has no counterpart in this country...
...what I have written above seems a mere digression it is because I have not yet stated the conclusion which logically follows: namely, that, since the university clientele in England is of the governing class, university sport is above and beyond popular and especially popular newspaper criticism. 'Varsity sport has its influence on the sports of the nation. But the sports of the people react scarcely at all on the universities. In this country, on the contrary, as regards football, university sport is the sport of the people. The real name of 'American' football is intercollegiate football. Last fall, according...
...after-math of the football season last fall, the following statistics concerning the sport have been complied, giving a history of the game in our larger universities...
Fall crew was highly satisfactory. Development of the second-string and 1917 men was very necessary to the eight, as a larger percentage of men was lost by graduation in this sport than in either of the other two. The four-oar crew men remaining in college are Sturtevant 15S., number 5, Sheldon '15S., number 4, Low '16, bow, and McLane '16, coxswain. These men are good oarsmen, but on the whole do not quite average up to those who graduated. It seems fairly certain, however, that none of them will be displaced. The fairly strong Freshman eight of last...