Word: fall
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...army, Adjutant General McCain announced in an official statement Saturday. The number of camps has been reduced to eight, in place of the 16 that are now training officers for the first 500,000. There will be no Plattsburg in the second series. The sites for the fall camps being for the most part in the south on account of climatic considerations. In general, qualifications for admission to these camps will be the same as for the first series, but an effort will be made to obtain men at least 31 years of age, and the number admitted to training...
Applications for the fall camps are to be sent to the commanding generals of the departments in which the applicants live, between June 15 and July 15. No requests for admission will be received after the latter date...
President Wilson in a letter to Lawrence Perry, of the New York Evening Post, urges the continuation of college athletics as an aid to fitting men for national service. In accordance with this suggestion, intercollegiate football will probably be a feature of the fall season of sports at many colleges in the country. The schedules already arranged, with some modifications, will be carried out by the greater number of colleges affiliated with the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee, in the opinion of the members of the Central Board on Officials as voiced Saturday evening at their meeting at the Hotel...
...entered some form of military service, and the teams which would represent these universities would necessarily be composed of much less suitable material. It would be necessary to take certain steps in regard to eligibility rules, and it is expected that, with the possible resumption of athletics in the fall, rules will be adopted which will permit the freshmen whose numbers will not be greatly depleted, to participate, thus suspending in limited direction the present one-year residence rule...
...Leaders in the country have agreed that athletics are invaluable in preparation for military service and the general sentiment is that many benefits would be derived if intercollegiate activities of this nature could be continued. Practically all the colleges and universities have arranged their football schedules for next fall and these contests might be carried out despite the losses of star players...