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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...talk of exclusive groups of big colleges, leagues and federations, one important point seems to have been over-looked. That is the so-called practice game, which to my mind is responsible for much that is unsportsmanlike in college athletics. I have in mind football, particularly, but the criticism applies in some degree to other sports as well...
...When one of these institutions starts to make up a football schedule, the sole aim seems to be to so arrange games that the team may work up to its maximum strength at the end of the season when it is expected to meet one or two strong competitors. The schedule is arranged so that in the early part of the season teams are played which are not real competitors at all, and cannot be expected to win except by reason of some extraordinary circumstance...
...There are one or two competitions which are almost traditional and which have a right to a reserved place at the end of the season. Such competitions embrace the Yale-Harvard game and the Pennsylvania Cornell Thanksgiving Day game. There are numerous others among the smaller colleges, but none among the big institutions that I know...
...back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person. Particulars reference is made to football because the play is so strenuous that games cannot be multiplied at will...
...estimated that at least one million and a quarter persons have been discharged from the service who are entitled to the benefits of this act and while payments will be made as expeditiously as possible it will manifestly take considerable time to write and mail this many checks...