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...discussed in a way which is sure to attract a harmful notoriety. The article on football, by Professor Hollis, which ends with the surprising statement that it would be best to give up the Yale game, comes from the pen of one who has long been identified with the sport, but has a conclusion not only revolutionary, but entirely unrepresentative...
...with outside teams. Challenges for meets have already been received from Yale and Columbia. Shortly after the close of the mid-year examinations and before the selection of the University teams a class tournament will be held for the championship of the University in the different branches of aquatic sport...
...promote equality among college teams, to discourage unfair practices and to hold players up to reasonable scholarship. The rules ought to be made by intercollegiate agreement in order that the interpretation and practice may be the same. Every effort should be directed toward the conservation of those sports which promote manliness, character, and courtesy. All the elements which have a tendency to make of sport a business should be kept out, but, on the other hand, there should not be too much regulation...
...would under this rule be allowed to compete on a University team. The system by which superior athletes are obtained from the lower schools is a much greater abuse today than the migration of athletes from college to college. The fundamental principle at the root of good college sport is that no college should be willing to gain for itself an advantage which does not spring from the development of the men who would naturally become members of the institution. As soon as any college begins searching about for likely athletes, it is obtaining an unfair advantage unless the other...
...equal chance. For example, a professional is not allowed to play on an amateur team, because he is one who makes the playing of a game his life's work, and is believed to have an unfair advantage over a man who is playing the game merely for the sport's sake. A man who has played four years has had more experience and should be better equipped than one who is merely following the regular four year course in college...