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...following article appears in the October 28 issue of the New Republic under the title of "Pigskin Preferred." It is based on the fact that electric are lights have been placed on Soldiers Field to enable practice to be carried on after dark. In the editorial column of this paper today will be found the Crimson's solution of the present overemphasis of football...
...alumnus. This means, for one thing, that we cherish the pale remains of some anxiety about educational matters in the old sense. And we should therefore like to be allowed to put in a timid plea that some of the profits of Stadium Common, or Bowl Bonds, or Pigskin Preferred, which under the reign of a competent coach would be considerable, be paid in to the University for strictly educational purposes. We do not go so far as to suggest that any professor's salary be raised, out of those profits, to a figure so near that of the football...
...every bit of research every signing of contract with coaches every advanced secret practice, every current of the Pigskin melon, be performed is electric light. Too much daylight not good for the game for business football...
...should like to be allowed to put in a timid plea that some of the profits of Stadium Common, or Bowl Bonds, or Pigskin Preferred, which under the reign of a competent coach would be considerable, be paid in to the University for strictly educational purposes...
Although last Saturday was an important day in the ripening football season, not a single pigskin sailed over a goal-bar anywhere in the U. S. Not a single fullback sent a pigskin away for a punt of even 20 feet, and no back of any other denomination gained so much as a yard with a pigskin in the crook of his arm. This and that, to be sure, was done with footballs, but footballs are not made of pigskin. They are made of cowhide? a startling fact made public in the advance notices for a congress of leather producers...