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...response to a general demand by members of last year's 150-pound football squad for a continuance of the sport this season, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports yesterday announced that it had just removed the ban which had been placed on that activity last spring...
Practice will start on Monday, October 24, in preparation for a single game with the Yale 150-pound team on Friday, November 11. Henry Myerson '32, for two years right guard on the University team, will act as head coach, and will be assisted by L. W. Fowles, a Graduate School man now coaching house football...
Since the House football season closes with a game against the winning Yale Class team on Friday, November 4, the 150-pound season will not lap over the House games more than a week and a half. The chief reasons for the discontinuance of the 150-pound team last spring were that it might harm the turnout for house football and that there were not enough teams of its own weight and calibre for it to play in this vicinity...
Evincing an attempt at compromise between the growing spirit of House athletics on one hand and a reiterated demand by a small group of students for the resurrection of 150-pound football on the other, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has lifted the ban on lightweight football and has arranged an eighteen day season culminating in a single game with Yale...
...value are questionable. House football will undoubtedly suffer even though the number of players taken away from it at the beginning of the lightweight season will consist in large part of men who would not have gone out for House teams except to get in training for the 150-pound squad. 150-pound football, even if it does not deprive House football of many men, relegates it to a more sub-ordinate position...