Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extreme to which football as a commercial spectacle can be carried was demonstrated yesterday by an announcement from the athletic committee of the Philadelphia sesquicentennial celebration to the effect that the committee is planning what will amount to a national football tournament for early December, 1926. These plans conflict directly with a newer tendency of undergraduate opinion in some of the larger Eastern universities, which, while maintaining football in its proper place as a college sport, would oppose the menace of commercialism. Some enthusiastic and short-sighted people, forgetful of or callous to the future of football in American colleges...
...also quite probable that public enthusiasm over the magnitude of this project will result in such a national championship tournament becoming an annual event; and, in view of this probability, it will be interesting to see what course the so-called "Big Three" will follow. Participation in such a contest, involving as it does both greater national interest than over before, and the hysterical atmosphere of a tremendous crowd, undoubtedly runs counter to the more reasonable and less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving...
First round matches in the University tennis tournament, which was scheduled for yesterday, have been postponed until the weather permits play on the courts. Two days will be given to play off preliminary matches and all results must be posted by the evening of the second day or penalty of disqualification...
...Professional. Last week a tournament began on the links of the Olympia Fields Club of Chicago. Excepting James Barnes, Willie MacFarlane and MacDonald Smith, every important U. S. professional was entered. Humdrum preliminary play began. Suddenly came an upset: Gene Sarazen dropped out, 8 up and 7 to go, before Jack Burke of Houston...
Play in the University tennis tournament will open today with 183 single players and 48 doubles teams on the entry list as contenders for the titles held respectively by Taketchi Harada, and P. M. Lenhart '27 and L. H. Gordon '27, last year. A new singles champion will be crowned, as the famous Japanese Davis Cup star is not enrolled in the University this year...