The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-26
FOOTBALL NOT A
BREEDER OF EVIL
PROF. MCMILLAN II AN, DOES NOT
AGREE WITH PROF. DRAPER.
Latter's Criticism Of the Game Prompts
Minnesota Educator to Speak Against
the Wrong of the Cry t'Profes-
sional'' How the Sport May Be
Made 'Clean. ''s5 ~: = ~,

Professor Conway Macmillan Of the Minnesota
state university does not agree with the state
ment of Professor Andrew S. Draper, superin-
tendent of public instruction Of the state Of
New York, that football In the colleges Is a
breeder Of evil ss:,,s, -.
Football is the epitome Of human life
said Professor Macmillan today. "If football
needs purifying, then human nature must be
purified as football Is merely a phase OF human
nature and endeav0r.r .,s; =. go -.ss :. :
:'The talk about Professionalism and amateur:
ism is wrong, unless our ideas of American
democracy are wrong. u.s. Amateurism. Is based
fessional always professional, 1s more stringent
than any other human. or&divine rule. The scrip:
lures give q man apchance to- repent, and 8
criminal Is free after serving his sentence, but
the fact that man sueess his skill to. earn OF
win money in athletics, perhaps in an Idle
footrace while a farmer boy fastens crime
upon him that repentance lis in no way able
'If athletics and football in the colleges are
part of the broad education to be acquired
then every student wh6'sfs "a bona fde member
team. 1t is not Professionalism that breeds the
evil. 1t is the subterfuges and deceit used wher
Americans try to adapt foreign ideas Of am
ateurism to American democracy. It tssas i'm
have clean athletics wifi truth asa basis there
should be mo- protests, sthe' colleges should de-
termine the eliSibility o. thsir own players, ant
o oa bona e s9slss be aoT Ssand
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Of clean sport, the other colleges can falrop A
play Ge{ aEtF =.
~ Professor DrSper''s Speech: s
y Professor Diapers attaek on football was made
In an address at Boston, at the sixteenth an
nual meeting Of the Massachusetts, Teachers as
ISOLATION yesterday. Hefdeclared that the gam,
should be purged and saved from it's attendan
evils He expressed disagreement with criticism.
of football that it&dssIa sport which induces
professionalism that, its encourages real battle
rather than open manliness. that it is too ex
pensive for sport and gathers more money thar
ought to be under the pcontrol: of Students. ami
that It. breeds loafng gambling and drinking
and sound laying. He continued:
serve the good cause Of physical powers AM
strenuous sport in all the schools by saving th
game. III they request the rules would h
changed SO as to make the, game more opel
and attractive less hazardous and unseemly. !
but a matriculated student In residence a yea
would very nearly settle matters.
"Insistence that thest gate fees shall be at
! rate which does not discriminate against grea
numbers who love the sport and wanc to follow
the flag. would be good preventive medicine
II, beyond this, it might become distinctly I'm
| derstood that there is nothing in common BE
| tween university. and a saloon and that it i
crime in the university as 1t Is in the state
for boy to gamble on university contests, abou
all the grounds for the criticism which hav
set forth would be removed =