Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...England Intercollegiate Basketball League...
Members of the University and Freshman athletic squads must be absolutely regular in attending lectures while in Cambridge. Two years ago the Athletic Committee was obliged to make a rule preventing Freshman teams from playing outside of New England solely because of the number of cuts taken by members of the teams while they were in Cambridge. To the college athlete, academic standing is as essential as physical ability. H. BULLARD, D. C. CAMPBELL, B. WENDELL, JR., J. G. WILLIS...
...actual training of the team, the differences between the two countries is no less marked. In America . . . training is a matter of loyal duty, almost of religion. . . . In England there is no call for candidates, and when I asked to whom I should report, my question was not understood. . . . There was, of course, no professional trainer. I was not expected to report to anyone...
This superiority, however, is being widely recognized in England, and has lately resulted in an attempt to close the Henley Regatta to Americans rather than raise the standards of training and watermanship. Taking into consideration the spirit of modern times toward progress and competition, this seems anything but a good plan, for with all their faults American methods are the methods that should in the end prevail...
...English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same from year to year, without attempting to vary them by new and tricky plays which have...