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...more favored colleges. Probably their service has been as wise and their supervision as careful as amateurs could possibly have given. It is also true that the overshadowing importance of football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard of course is very, very poor. But the fact remains that other and smaller colleges can and do provide professional coaches for their cross-country runners which for the present...
...they are merely taking advantage of an opportunity which is open equally to all coaches. Every team that played on Soldiers Field this fall was instructed in the same way. The practice is one which is generally followed, but which ought to be abolished for the good of the sport...
...legislate all the danger out of football without changing it into a parlor game is clearly impossible. Nor ought it to be abolished, for as the most popular sport in the colleges and schools it has possibilities greater than those of any other game now used in this country. But some modification of the rules by which the probability of several fatal accidents in each season may be removed ought to be made before next fall...
...properly qualified to represent Harvard, and should therefore no longer be allowed to enter intercollegiate competitions. This is the unsportsmanlike spirit with which basketball, after a slow decline, was last year buried by action of the Athletic Committee. It is the spirit which, if persisted in, will kill any sport, no matter how flourishing it may once have been...
This hostile attitude is unjustified in the case of cross-country, both because the sport is in itself most excellent, and because it serves as a training school for the distance runners who represent one-sixth of the strength of one of our four major teams. A glance at the results of the intercollegiate cross-country runs and long distance events of the last seven years, compared in another column, will show what the development of a strong cross-country team has done for Cornell. We believe that we are justified in assuming that the same advantages...