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Another apparent and important advantage of the League is the opportunity which it immediately offers for the construction of general agreements which are recognized to be desirous by all but which a regrettable lack of cooperation has checked before. A standard maximum period of pre-season practice, a system whereby schedules would not have to be made out years in advance, mutual scouting agreements, a uniform number of home contests for each team, standard visiting team guarantees and uniform post-season game regulations are some of the things capable of being effected if only some medium of cooperation such...
Regulations to be drawn up by the League would standardize such things as pre-season practices, eligibility of players, post-season game rules, scouting agreements, etc. The college newspapers as a result of a careful cooperative investigation reached the conclusion that rules drawn up by these colleges would have the effect of raising and standardizing athletic practices on a level that would revive and maintain amateurism in college football...
Recently two motronly ladies, the pre-season buddings of the crop of summer tourists, made their pilgrimage to the lower regions of Baker to see for themselves the work of the Mexican Leonardo. They walked up and down for some time, looking at the shrieking panorama in silence. Finally one of them folded her hands and stood fascinated in the middle of the room...
After performing sensationally in four pre-season exhibition games, Di Maggio hurt his ankle. When the ankle healed, he developed a sun-lamp burn. In New York last week, unaware of what the Yankee Stadium looked like inside, fragile Di Maggio, a toothy Italian whose remarks to the Press suggested that his ability, however great, was amply balanced by his self-assurance, spent his days reading how his teammates had contrived to lose three out of their first five games...
...feel certain that both the Athletic and Administrative authorities here favor the Princetonian proposition if change there must be. In addition there is strong argument on the medical side that three weeks of pre-season training is sufficient...