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...counter proposal to the Bingham plan for abrogating the present Big Three agreement in favor of four full weeks of pre-season practice. This counter proposal stated that if the "object of Mr. Bingham's report is, for conditioning reasons, to climinate the rigidity of the September 15 date in relation to the vacillating nature of the usual opening of the football season, it seems to us that this might be accomplished through setting the deadline for the beginning of pre-season training at a date three weeks before the first Saturday in October...
...unjust to link Mr. Bingham's proposal to eliminate the minor sports with the expense involved in an extra week of pre-season training. Unlike the practice at Princeton, a player's expenses are not paid from an A.A. fund but out of the individual's pocket. The additional incidental cost of the proposed extension, since the coaches are paid by the year, would not equal the charges for later medical care of injuries caused by poor physical conditioning...
Again the hockey series between Harvard and Yale, despite pre-season prognostication, promises to be one of the most evenly matched series of the season; for both teams have produced the same kind of records for the season, records in which the good performances stand out against the bad like mud on a white fence...
...register a pre-season nomination for TIME'S next Man of the Year. Let your list of candidates for this distinction begin with . . . the one man whose vision and devotion to the public good are even now changing the entire course of social evolution: DR. FRANCIS EVERETT TOWNSEND...
...gained will be of great value, more particularly as the motion pictures can be gone over again and again until every fault has been detected. Incidentally, although movies have been made of all games in the past few years, this is the first time films have been taken of pre-season scrimmage...