Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Attention has been called to the large gate receipts and the enormous amount of money spent on athletics as bad phases of the present athletic situation. This large income comes partly from the University, but chiefly from the public. At present season tickets are required for each sport and special...
The question of training tables has been brought to a head by the statement of a man long connected with college sports, both as a participant and as a graduate manager, that all training tables should be abolished, and by the recent vote of the Athletic Committee not to support...
The training table has an even more definite value than that of providing good food. It tends to stimulate sociability and good fellowship, two important factors in producing team play. It is all very well to say that the men must eventually "go stale from having the sport served up...
But often, talk about the game is necessary. Many of the coaches are graduates who find it difficult to talk things over with the men except at meal hours, and consequently find the training table the best place in which to discuss plays and rules. At such times men meet...
The training-table has two excellent reasons for its existence. First, it is impossible without it to bring men into the excellent physical condition required by the keen competitions of our present athletic contests; and second, it has great importance in developing the unity of a team and the "esprit...