Word: cannot
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From this physical standpoint, then, our conclusion is that the very nature of the present game of football prevents nineteenths of the students of America colleges from participating in it, so that it can be of no physical benefit to then. They cannot undergo a course of training for football that excludes them from all other activities, study included, for a quarter of the whole college year, and they dare not play at all without such training, or they expose themselves to physical danger to the extent of foolhardiness...
...characteristics, we must balance off those that are good against those evil. It is the object of the negative to show the wholesome and ennobling qualities of this greatest of American games. We believe and all who have had any experience in football, whether as spectators or competitors, cannot fail to agree--that there are distinct benefits in this institution of intercollegiate football in America. In defense of this view we offer three distinct contentions...
...McClanahan continued for the affirmative. My colleague has shown, he said, that the great mass of students cannot take part in the game, and I will show that the game is detrimental to those who do participate; first, to the player's general health; second to his intellectual development. Violent training, necessary to so violent a game, causes physical exhaustion and does lasting injury to circulation digestion, and nutrition. Muscle gained at the sacrifice of the vital organs is worse than useless. Then fatalities are a part of the price paid for the sport. In spite of precautionary training numerous...
...wish to restate the three main contentions of the negative. Football creates a clean and wholesome spirit around which the student body can rally. In the second place it creates individual efficiency. At out final point, that football moulds character, our opponents have chosen to sneer, but they cannot present sound arguments which can meet this statement...
...Harvard Committee cannot, between now and Monday, put in definite form its proposals for changes in football rules, and therefore requests that the meeting of the Rules Committee be postponed for two weeks, in order to give a reasonable amount of time to formulate opinions...