The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-07
SPORTS. !: !: I
CUT OUT YALE GAME.
Prof. Hollis of Harvard Athletic
Committee Makes an Attack
on Football.
Says Contest With the Ellis Has De-
moralizing Effect on the
Students.

Professor Hollis. chairman Of the Har-
ward athletic committee, created quite a
sensatio about the university yesterday
when his article in the current issue Of
the graduation magazine came before the
students. In the article, which is on foot
ball in general Professor Hollis suggests
that the football game between Harvard
and Yale be discontinued. on the ground
that 1t is demoralizing. The most inter-
eSting parts of the article are as follows:
THE question has been raised several
times, more vigorously of late than ever.
Do these young men and their game rep
resent an influence for the general good
of the university? Should football be al
lowed as an intercollegiate contest? AS it
is at present played in the United States
the answer to these questions would in
volve what is known in athletic sports as
a CLOS. decision With the prevailing
rules and tendencies the game is grad
ualiy awakening an unfavorable sentiment
which. is certain to grow for the players
the,;se.ves no longer get any fun out
OF il.
".Thc season constitutes one long period
OF Grudgery. under constantly increasing
nervous strain and excitement; then, too,
Of recent years the game has been dull
and uDinteresting to those who are not
experts in the technicalities and strategy
Of tho plays During the past three years
lNltE 10 per Ceul VI Tie 0ullIc ilSL VI
men appearing on the field have been laid
Oft from time&to time to recover from in
juries. Fortunately, none of them have
been permanently or fatally hurt, so far
as can be known. From the point OF
view of scholarship in the whole under
graduate body the case against football is
| exceedingly weak, although the players dc
undoubtedly lose able time.
1.-THE most demoralizng football game
| played by Harvard during the year is thai
with Yale. This has been true for many
| Years, with only an occasional lapse into
| a season of good fellowship. The students
Of the two universities, are in the mair
| friendly to one another but this game
seems to arouse their worst impulses. Sus.
plcions are rife, bets are on and studies
are practically suspended during the en-
tire week preceding the game. The grad
| uates, too, have their period Of excite
ment and are, in large part, responsible
for the feverish strain under which the
game Is played. L. Ii
ION the whole, it would be a good thing
| to have the game given UP, and the fal
schedules shortened by that much; Or an
| other less strenuous game substituted
| Certainly Harvard would profit by it, AM
our students would take the sports will
other teams more in the spirit of fun
That article was the sole subject of dis
cussion among the undergraduates to-
the opinions expressed by the head Of thu
athletics here. Harvard does not for;
minute want to see the games with1=Yal
discontinued in any one branch of sports
most of all football. = :.
Yale athletic leaders and leading alumni
who have been in close touch with tn
members of the Yale committee that ha
been in conference with Harvard for sew
eral months tryingsto to- fix up an athleti
agreement between the two universitie
and to arrange a set of eligibility rules fC
the players, said when told that Professc
Hollis in public statement favored givin
up the Harvard-Yale football game ths
it was very unfortunate and certainly yer
inopportune for Professor Hollis to Civ
publicity to such views just now.
One of these Yale leaders in athletic
and very close to the Yale corporate
said further: 20 -
Professor Hollis statement will not,
my Judgment and in the opinion Of othe
Yale men, interfere with the athlet
agreement, which is on the point of beir
signed by the representatives. of the tv
universities. I think that le.,is talkin
through his hat 7 don't think that Prt
fessor Hollis represents. the, real Harva,
sentiment either of the undergradua
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