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...buildings and grounds was $6296; for maintenance and repairs, $1236; for heat, $1150,; for insurance, $1020; and for water, $651. To the General Account is charged the office expenses, the salaries of those connected with the office, and all incidental expenses which cannot be properly charged to any special sport. To the item of Permanent Improvements were charged last year labor and cost of filling for the reclamation of about five acres of Soldiers Field, this ground being much needed for scrub games. It is planned to spend practically all of the available surplus each year in reclaiming more...
...been urged, and it may be so, that the ideal method would be to have sport endowed, so that there would be no gate receipts, and that admission should be by invitation. There would be an excellent opportunity for some interested graduate to try the experiment by setting aside a sufficient sum to support fencing or wrestling in the University. The cost of fencing instructor and the expenses of the fencing team would not exceed $1000 per annum. As it is now, without the gate receipts from football and baseball, the other teams, including the crew, the track team...
...Garcelon said that, although one of the oldest sports, lacrosse had been slighted at times, and he was glad to see that interest in it was growing. There is no game in which form and team-play show up to greater advantage, for, as in baseball and football, it is the team and not the individual that wins the game. In the last five years the University has had three championship teams. This is the foundation of a tradition which each branch of sport is striving to build up, and it is the duty of this year's lacrosse team...
...obtainable at this season of the year and will aid materially all men who wish to come out for football practice. As an added incentive there is the opportunity of learning a new game and possibly of making the University team. The importance of association football as an intercollegiate sport is increasing, and for that reason every effort should be made to produce a championship team this year. R. T. FISHER...
...stand four feet six, or six feet four, whether he weighs 125 pounds or 225 pounds. There are no signals for him to buy, no blackboard talks from coaches, pope of the hundred and one phases of training that make American football a business father than a sport. He simply joins a team of men of his own skill, puts on a pair of ruining shorts and a jersey, trois over to the field and commences to play. In an hour or less he is taking his bath and soccer has no more claim on him till the following...