Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard oarsman and ex-captain of the hockey team, who has since studied at Oxford and has there taken part in athletics writes to the CRIMSON as follows...
...they happen to come at the time when the weather conditions are such as they are fitted for. All of them are essentially winter sports and do not exist at other seasons of the year. Imagine attempting to play basketball in the spring or autumn in a hot gymnasium. Hockey can only exist at the present time when there is ice, and even with a rink, nobody would want to play it in warm weather. These different forms of athletics are to be given up entirely (for to my mind that would be the result of an abolition of intercollegiate...
...making the compromise which will be most satisfactory to the University as a whole. They have submitted such a proposal. The question now arises: Is this the most satisfactory solution of the difficulty? Is it fair that the minor sports should bear the whole brunt of this curtailment? Hockey, basketball, and the other minor sports have always furnished exercise and recreation for a large number of men who are unable to take part in the major sports. The total number of men who take part in minor sports may not be as great as those who take part in major...
...hockey season is short, covering but six or seven weeks, it takes few men away from Cambridge at any time, offers an excellent mode of outdoor exercise, has none of the abuses of other sports, employs no professional coaches, has few injuries, and gives the required amount of outside interest during a period when college life is extremely dull. We do not wish to see the baseball or football schedules cut down, but it would seem far wiser to take off some of their many games than make a total abolition of so excellent a sport as hockey...
...these sports in the winter is the prospect of the intercollegiate games. The sports are new and they require stimulus. Hence they will cut short the only interest of the undergraduate life at that dull time of the year, and all the men who go out for hockey and basketball, most of whom do not partake in the major sports, will spend their time idly indoors. Is this what the Faculty desires? Then, too, is it not unfair to the men who have devoted their time to the building up of these sports and the encouraging of the scrub series...