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...Cambridge as a matter of course and in consequence there has seldom been much enthusiasm among the graduates until the time of the games. To be sure there is little that the graduates can do in the way of coaching as in some of the other branches of sport, but there is a great deal that they can do to help get out all the available material for the team...
...raised to the relative amount of time which is given to athletics and studies. On this point we are forced to disagree with Mr. Caspar Whitney who, in a recent number of Harper's Weekly, showed himself opposed to indoor training in at least one branch of sport-baseball. If the only object of our athletics were to turn out the most skilful teams possible, and if their indoor work took any considerable part of a man's time from his studies, objection might well be made. But as a matter of fact this preliminary training forms the incentive...
...What other sport is there in the world which so closely combines so many demands upon the physical and mental qualities of our youths? * * * The chances of the game may result in a few broken bones, but the benefits derived help in no small measure towards producing a generation of healthy, courageous and manly individuals...
...Because a game is rough and has not as yet been regulated in a proper measure, are we as Americans going to throw over the entire sport? Are we going to confess that we are unable to take advantage of its strong, healthy points, and simply say it is too rough a game for boys to play? * * * Let us rather make a point of seeing that they learn to play fairly; that they learn to govern their brute instincts, that only those who are able to do this are permitted to indulge in rough play...
...Football men must see to it that hereafter they do not present the spectacle of unfair play to the prejudiced opponent as well as to the enthusiastic lover of the game, lest these both of necessity be brought to act together to enforce the suppression of this sport...