Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only men from last year's team who have returned to College are A. Tyng '05, and W. MacLeod 1L. There is, however, much promising material among last year's substitutes. The team this year will have to rely entirely upon subscriptions for its support, and men who wish professional coaching will have to provide it for themselves...
...Gilles 3L. reviewed the history of basketball in the University and emphasized the necessity for all men of athletic ability to support this sport. J. F. Henderson '05, captain of the University team, and W. O. Dapping '05, explained the plans for the year and urged the men to make every possible effort to materialize a winning team...
With the adoption of the new policy of the Athletic Committee towards the minor sports has come the necessity for prompt and ready University support of the organizations by which these sports are carried on. I am speaking through your columns particularly in the interests of fencing, but what I shall say, can, I think, be applied equally well to hockey, lacrosse, and basketball...
...only by hearty support of these games that their right to the aid which the Committee is so amply able to give can be vindicated. This aid has now been almost entirely withdrawn, not for the sake of economy, but because the Committee has decided to support only the four "big" sports in the belief that they alone have earned by their popularity the right to receive financial support form the Committee funds. Among these sports, to be sure, rowing is not self-supporting, nor, I believe, is track; yet the Committee has refused to concede the injustice of giving...
Condemnation of this short-sighted policy cannot be too severe. It can take no more practical form than spontaneous support of the sports now under the ban of the committee. For fencing this support can best be shown by large atten dance at the Fencing Room in the basement of the Gymnasium this afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the first class will receive instruction from the experienced fencers now in College. By the response at last night's meeting some professional coaching is assured. Every fencer should see that Captain MacLeod has his pledge for further...