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...deal. As an independent organization, it has performed at every football game since the war's end without any pay other than travel expenses for one trip a year. If the Band isn't actually the main drawing card at these games, it at least shares the gridiron honors equally with the men in padding. As a matter of plain fact, the H.A.A. and the College owe the Band a debt of gratitude...
...first time since before the war the band may be forced to stay home while the football team plays on an eastern gridiron, band manager Frank W. Hopkins '52 revealed last night...
...tragic consequence is illustrated by the graduation records of the past nine years: football players as a group have been only a little more than half as successful as the rest of the student body in completing the requirements for the degree. They have been exploited on the gridiron under the pretense of being educated...
After the dismal morass of scandals into which college football sank this past summer, even the smallest act of sportsmanship in the gridiron game would be welcome. Thus the Holy Cross decision not to use freshmen when it plays against Harvard and Brown (who are following an Ivy League decision not to use them) seems encouraging out of all proportion to its importance...
...without breaking stride, Blaik reversed his field. He went on to defend Big Football, the very influence which-by his own words-had done most to cause the cribbers to violate the honor system. Army football players, he said earlier, were "unbelievably fatigued" after hours of practice on the gridiron, and had to face the iron scholastic schedules of the Academy. Their high morale might, he suggested, have caused them to put success of the team above the reputation of the cadet corps. If he had been speaking solely as a professional coach, defending his way of life, this would...