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...order to lessen the excessive notoriety and bring the game within the proper limits of a college sport, they recommend (1) That all games be played upon the home grounds of the competitors; (2) That the sale of tickets be limited to graduates and undergraduates for themselves and their guests; (3) That all efforts on the part of the press to give undue publicity to the game throughout the season be discouraged...
...recommendations of this report. Being specially charged by the President and Fellows with the supervision of athletics, they regret that no opportunity was given them to make this statement of their views and action, before the Faculty recommended so radical a change as the abolition of an intercollegiate sport of twenty years standing, and of undeniably great advantages, moral as well as physical...
...collegiate football, has been in part to blame for the abuses which have crept into the game, and wholly to blame for the unnatural position which it now occupies. There has been too great a pressure brought upon the college man to make him forget that his athletic sports are intended for his own recreation and benefit, and not for the gratification of the public's love of excitement. The fame of the athlete, even if confined to his own college, might well be sufficient to make him overestimate the importance of his athletic activity. When this fame spreads over...
This bitterness the Faculty declares leads to rough play and threatens the integrity of amateur sport and therefore it is desirable that all games with the University of Pennsylvania be discontinued for the present. Mr. Bissell, when interviewed in regard to the communication, said the Faculty committee had acted in accordance with the position taken by the graduate advisory committee, which also advised that no games be played with Pennsylvania this year...
After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek...