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...Yale spend as much time and care on their intramural systems as many colleges do on their intercollegiate programs. Transporting eight football teams the distance from Cambridge to New Haven and playing eight football games in one afternoon would cause nervous and financial breakdowns in most American institutions where intra-mural sports are usually restricted to desultory touch football and basketball contests between fraternities or clubs...
...Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics at Harvard, and William H. Neale, his counterpart at Yale, take this as part of their regular fall programs. They are used to acting on the grand scale required by the House and College intra-murals...
...fact that Yale has ten upperclass living units as opposed to Harvard's eight--seven Houses and the Dudley Computer's Center--makes the intra program at New Haven slightly more expensive. The whole plan, including freshman dormitory sports, costs the Y.A.A. $25,000. Samborski says the inter-House program here costs $18,000, with the freshmen taking a couple hundred more...
...sports in which the two colleges have intra-mural competition in are mostly the same except that Yale Colleges play soccer in the fall because that game became popular in New Haven during the war. There are approximately 20 men from each College on a soccer squad. Lack of playing fields prevents Harvard from having intra-mural booters...
...best indications that an intramural program is well-run is the advancement of many men from an intra-squad to the varsity team. This happens regularly at both schools, almost always in sports that have small varsity squads. Occasionally a football player will move up. Two members of last year's Blue varsity moved up from freshman intramural football competition--defensive fullback Middleton de Camp and tackle Edward Emerson...