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Every one recognizes that the most pleasing feature of our athletic sports is that they are the work of amateurs, and it may be predicted that wherever the professional element creeps in, their enthusiasm and interest will die out. A professional almost invariably becomes the tool of pool-makers and rowdies, and even under the most favorable circumstances he has great difficulty in keeping his integrity above suspicion. The amateur, on the other hand, is free from these annoyances; he is supposed to enter into athletics from a gentlemanly desire to excel in them, and he commands the interest...
...sport the Freshman went
...some people have queer ideas of what constitutes holiday recreation. A Harvard student from Yucatan went to spend his vacation in his native equatorial latitudes, and passed the entire time in fighting in one of the periodical revolutions indulged in by his countrymen. Refreshed and invigorated by this delightful sport, he returned in due course to pursue his peaceful studies at Cambridge...
IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...
...Bicycle Club will be interested to know that Scribner's is to have a paper upon the sport, by the well-known rider and writer, Mr. Charles E. Pratt...