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...hope in his annual report that paid coaches in college athletics will soon disappear. He maintains that athletics are suffering from an over-organized system of coaching, and that he believes that more responsibility should be placed on team captains. "If undergraduates were released from unnatural domination of their sports by graduate coaches, intercollegiate sport would be liberated from the abnormal incubus of a superimposed system which tends to make puppets of the players. In order that men may be resourceful in time of emergency they must be schooled in the art of resourcefulness by some stimulation of their latent...
...Lampoon won a toe on the Bachelder-Phillips Hockey Trophy yesterday by a combination of chance, chicanery and malpractice never before paralleled in the annals of the sport. Represented by a proxy team, the humorists made two goals while the Crimson underwent an afternoon of infecundity. In--checking, grace, shooting, falling--in fact in all the finer points of the game the Crimson players were far superior to their rivals. As the heat of the battle made the ice too soft for skating after only nine minutes had elapsed, it was decided to play a rubber in the near future...
...should bring out a larger representation from the University than has been present at the opening games on the schedule. The number of students at the games this season has been discouragingly small, not more than 100 undergraduates having witnessed any one of the contests played thus far. The sport is deserving of greater support than is being given...
...team is to be successful at least 35 more men should try for it. There is a dearth of material for the field events, and of that in evidence, little is promising. All members of the class of 1918 who are not engaged in some form of winter sport are urged to report to Coaches Donovan and Powers at Soldiers Field this afternoon before 4.30 o'clock. No previous experience is necessary...
...races on their own ability. The track athlete, in the sense that his success depends almost entirely upon himself in proportion to the time that he devotes to the sport and the interest that he takes in it, practically develops himself...