Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams at Captain and elsewhere. If present reports develop into facts it would be well for our university and college authorities to take some radical stand against...
Word was received yesterday from J. P. Brown '14 that the West's awake. He has been speaking at several Middle Western universities in an effort to enlist college men for the American Ambulance Field Service. Fifteen men have volunteered at the University of Wisconsin, 22 at Chicago, and 20 at Western Reserve. Many more recruits are expected. Recruiting offices have been established at all of these universities...
...Paul Withington '09, who is director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin, is endeavoring to re-institute intercollegiate rowing as a sport at the Western college and the prospects tend toward the resumption of the sport in 1918. The faculty of the university abolished intercollegiate rowing two years ago so that crew work has since been kept alive by interclass and intercollegiate events...
...Indiana, 6 Kansas, 6 Leland Stanford, Jr., 6 Michigan, 8 11 M. I. T., 6 6 Minnesota, 9 12 Missouri, 8 Northwestern, 5 7 Oberlin, 5 5 Ohio State, 7 Ohio University, 6 Pennsylvania, 9 6 Princeton, 13 8 Texas, 10 11 Tufts, 10 5 Tulane, 6 Virginia, 7 Wisconsin, 9 12 Western Reserve, 11 7 Williams, 7 9 Yale, 18 19 Foreign universities, 30 27 Total no. enrolled, 808 778 Names subtracted, 157 175 Grand total...
...table: University 1915 1905 Harvard, $3,805,428 $2,501,171 Cornell, 3,139,530 1,020,500 Minnesota, 3,033,891 486,853 Columbia, 2,920,031 1,586,309 Pennsylvania, 2,903,162 580,599 Illinois, 2,844,541 858,697 California, 2,784,042 943,837 Wisconsin, 2,758,118 852,901 Michigan, 2,535,260 759,957 Chicago, 2,132,012 1,186,075 Yale, 1,777,134 900,929 Ohio State, 1,466,120 477,610 Missouri, 1,311,364 346,836 Nebraska, 1,309,752 431,250 Leland Stanford...