Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evil has not been exaggerated, what is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education; their recommendations include the reduction of the number of intercollegiate games to four, the abandonment of "championships," a graduate coaching system on a professor's salary basis, and no direction from the coaches during games. And if college athletics really need revision what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of that task by the students themselves? --The Boston Herald...
Possibly it is among the players that this evil is to be found. Yet football is a matter of free choice. Certainly a man has a right to devote as much time as he wishes to the game...
Your cry of "overemphasis of football" seems a good deal like the old cry of "wolf." Just where is this evil lurking...
...remedies proposed editorially by the editors of the Harvard and Yale deilies strike at the root of the evil. The varsity football season is to be shortened. Instead of beginning with the fall term or before it, and continuing under a squad of coaches through daily prac tice games and weekly intervarsity matches, it is to be preceded by a "class championship" series. Training with the class team for contests of genuine sport will serve at once to put old varsity players in condition and to develop new material. Only when the class championship has been decided will the varsity...
...college and serving to renew their interest in the affairs of the college; but present overemphasis tends to confine their interest to the maintenance of a winning football team, and to crowd out of their minds completely matters of larger educational importance; and here is, perhaps, the most serious evil of the present situation...