New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-12
COLLEGE ADVERTISING.
Chancellor Day Says athletics
Should Not Be So Used.

1--WE must have athletics but they must not be
the whole thing says Chancellor Day OF Syracuse
University in 1.-THE Illustrated Sporting News
'sThey must not be disproportionate. They are not
the food. They are tonic. They are not the work
They the play But If we must have them. we
must study them and know Of their quality and
adaptations We must examine them critically
as we do the curricula- We cannot safely accept
every form that may please the fancy Of students
nor leave schedules to be determined without re-
gard to the classroom and laboratory.
I'VE have hand the serious question Of foot
ball There is doubt among intelligent people. and
many of them in sympathy with college athletics,
to whether football is proper college game. II
it makes firm and acknowledged place for itself,
there will have to be notifications. mere show
of physical force well directed by twenty-five ex-
ceptonaI physical giants is illustrative of nothing
valuable to college training. And If. in spite of
padding and safeguarding in every possible way,
and attendant physician, that show of force is
to be attended with startling percentage Of seri-
fatal accidents, 1T imposes a responsibility
too great for colleges to assume 1t is we'll known
that present day college football is game by
which the heavier and stronger side wins, and the
weight and height Of men are compared in COM
putting chances. Plays arranged to break
through opposing lines by mere mule strength, with
out regard to the consequences. The ball must be
advanced. The whole team. so far it be
marshaled. is played upon one or two men who are
discovered to superiority of strength train
ing. or equal weakness. In notable game at SYRIA
cuse it agreed before by the visiting team to
hammer the captain out OF the game. This
done in brutal and cowardly manner in ten min
utes after the game began. By such rough and
tumble plays at another time the ball was stolen
repeatedly. Men stood the front bleachers and
side lines and saw this done. The referee evidently
did not see it. Those who did told that it
not sportsmanlike to speak of it protest. though
it shameless and glaring as to cause ex-
CARNATIONS from the spectators
Those who did not 1t could not believe any
thing so dishonorabe to college men.
Something must be done to save the bones and
the morals of football men, The fault is charged
the game is played to beat. and to play il for any
pose to win and every point OF the game must be
tator You might as well reason that it is sinister
Every POI point Of the game as Ma have it will be
Tsed 70 the utmost we therefore must have no
Plays that MAIN kill must be eliminated If We
the bali SO that it can be stolen should be uncov-
cred and and man guilty Of such offence should be
made abhorrent. wherever ne is found. There must
unobjectlonabIe football game win - l''''A7 aH
The battle RACES around football The other
selves. Perhaps the gross objection is found in
ane spirit Of rivalry created among students. alumni
secured for athletes They offer their qualities to
Of colleges that are sent in to this university and
invest in specy premng atbIseWS in ban6s 10
dents and the students do not know it-openly
water unbeknownst 10 himself! In some colleges
there is systematic and carefully worked plan by
alumni outside agents to secure athletes In
others students sent out to drum up recruits
And colleges have been defeated in football and
track athletics by students cntiCed their own
ranks or their preparatory schools by offers OF no.
sitionS or scholarships money to help them
through college. Exceptional men, whose poor
scholarship has shut them out of their college
whose record was irreDarable find their way into
colleges where athletes at a premium because
of some sharp rivalry, and in some strange Way
they devote still time to athletics and attain
to passing scholarship Occasionally two or three
men are turned down for falling to pass the grade.
and a great piece OF advertising is secured from
the innocent papers. but their names reappear
quietly when the season rolls aroundl
1T is here on this Doggy ground that we find the
greatest peril to college athletics is here that
the colleges are in danger OF being mired-both Fac
uIty and students. 1t is time for a bugIe note OF
alarm to be sounded all along the line Such prac-
tces are degrading They must soon become the
sources OF moral degeneracy. Contests with pIIr-
chased students mean nothing. for IL Is not a COL
lego with Its own constituents, its lawful Students
matched up against such another COLLEGE but IN is
a college that has combed over all college constft
uencies and is playing the men whom n has sIIc
eeeded IN matchmaking by meretricious Influences
Should the dishonesty Of football which has ak
cited criticism excite wonder under the circum-
stances7 1t win be degenerate day for our col
leSes when athletics to be used TO advar-ffsa
the colleges and universities"