Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is an important question that will have to be decided soon for intercollegiate, amateur football. Is it to be played for the benefit of the players and their immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom...
...right makes no difference, but the question of whose desire shall be followed makes a good deal of difference. Football may still be free from "civic responsibility." It all started between Princeton and Rutgers as a friendly rivalry. It was thought that it would be nice for colleges to play each other. It was nice, and still can be today, but just what John Q. Public, his wife, and his kids want should be gently ignored. It would be pleasant to keep college football, amateur or semi-pro as it may be, a strictly collegiate thing. If it doesn...
...play small college teams...
Captain Lew Hamity--"The men on the football team play because they love it and naturally don't want to see it abolished here I don't favor playing a schedule with small colleges, although a lighter schedule might be advisable...
There are also some statements which Mr. Hutchins makes which are not true. He declares that an athlete may be led to believe that whatever is done on the field, including slugging, is "done for the sake of alma mater," that the "habits of fair play" may be acquired as easily from studying as from sports. The slugging is a typical case of Hutchins' exaggeration. As for the fair play, there is no question that the kind of pressure afforded by big-time football is an education for everyone concerned, from the regulars and the scrubs and the band...