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There are eight great laws of sport, said Mr. Fairchild, and the first is, "Follow sports for sport's sake, and be a sportsman" It is the responsibility of students to make football clean, and if they do not accept this responsibility, it is the duty of the University Faculty to do away with the game. Mr. Fairchild said that he used to think that the game of football was clean, but after examining his photographs he noticed a lot of foul play. While these photographs were on the screen the lecturer went on to point out two peculiar evils...
...eligible candidates for the water polo teams are very few this year, there is an excellent opportunity for men of any degree of experience in this sport...
...good on the stadium rink the first work of the new year will be held there otherwise on some nearby pond. The University squad has already been picked, and a training table will be started immediately after Christmas; but all men who wish to take part in this sport will be given an opportunity to try for their class teams, which will be called out early in January...
...vacation. He explained to the men trying for the different positions the points in which they should endeavor to be especially proficient. McMaster spoke briefly on the importance of training and said that hockey was as hard on a player's wind and powers of endurance as any college sport. The hockey situation, he said, is more serious than ever before...
...second to his intellectual development. Violent training, necessary to so violent a game, causes physical exhaustion and does lasting injury to circulation digestion, and nutrition. Muscle gained at the sacrifice of the vital organs is worse than useless. Then fatalities are a part of the price paid for the sport. In spite of precautionary training numerous and serious accidents have resulted. Statistics show that at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton one-quarter of the players are injured, more or less permanently...