The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-12
NEBRASKA'S DEAN
DEFENDS FOOTBALL
Ward, Once q Star Of the Gridiron
Speaks Out for the Gridiron
-. ~s g. Game. .....r
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. K
2& Chicago. Nov. -11.-It is a pity the
students Of the University ofaNebraska
a were n not in in Chicago yesteerqhay day. to wit i
Ward. Heretofore they have known:
him as. an absorbed physician, dean Of
Ter for "discipline and g dignity,'
and the "ethics Of the profession"
upon which he talks to the freshmen
every year.
But yesterday he dropped several Of
masks aspects of his professional: !:
self and revealed himself to the, mem
bers Of the dignifed American eAcad-s
envy of. Medicine as Hank Ward, the
one-time halfback on his old varsity
football team. So
80 Sizzling Criticisms. -..sy
sion .of the the academy W devoted 1 s to fSa tbs
influence of1recreation upon the indi-i
vidtal and the community, = in. which
football came in for sizzling criticisms.
After several speakers had analyzed
the game, dwelling upon its brutality,
its unhealthy. competition, and it's other
evils, Dean Ward took the floor. Tie
was as the dignified dean that he
began: #
mit.' he said, cautiously, "that every:
college possesses radicallys~@<differen
types Of men who turn to different,
types Of athletics: Some men, d light
and swift, go in for tennis and track;
athletics. Another coterie, finds its
keenest enjoyment in baseball, and SO.
on. Now it seems to me that much of
the criticism against football fails to
take into account this fact, that the
big, heavy men, the men with big
frames and pulsing blood and heavy
Jaws, really need this game as an out
let for their energies. - - <'@.~%.,<.
.~. Back to the Days of Old. .
The academy, was silent, and the
lect,> slid into transformation No. l.
the old grad who admits, tho still
depioring, some of the. criticisms
"Of course, the game his it's evils.
There is graft in it and there is silly
partizanship and all that But can It
we get together and eliminate them
cial and business evil. Football has no
monopoly on. it. And partizanship
Why, [ saw a National League base
ball game in Philadelphia where the
crowd swarmed down from the bleach
erss and nearly mobbed the teams. But
IoUouy 10 Ddu1SQ Glo game on
that account e.: r. ~ 'sa>r,c -.
The academy was distinctly unsym-
pathetic, but the Z" old grad:V had cot
too warmed up to care Recollections
of the days when he wore the mole
skins were pressing him into transfor-
nation No. 2. It was the halfback who
picked up the speech and :jammed this
at the DOCTORS: :. :,
A Magnificent Game.
"Great blazes, the game is a magni-
fcent game: It is superb. Are you
have them dawdIe With With % dumbeiIs aeh in the the
gym? 1t is not brutal game: for the
men who play it. In twenty years it
hai3 mas not mad single fatality in any
amateur management. What are the
big men going to do to get rid Of their
suberabundant energy9 ~.
You and l know what they did in
the days Of Daniel Webster. There was
drinking then on a scale unparalleled
! by anything in collegiate circles today.
AS physicians, you cannot afford to go
on record against football. sWhat |
plead with you to do. is to join with
all Of us in making it clean sport. in
developing the spirit Of fair play and
IN insisting on a gentlemanly reception
for the opposing team. Then let it 90
at ChaC, an intense, but fair game. =
Foe Of the Game Replies
R. R. Row, superintendent Of schools
at ,Berwyn: ~, whose paper on ssThe
Relation Of Education to Recreation. ),
had aroused the sleeping halfback in
Dean Ward, was called upon to answer
. !, Dean Ward has admitted most Of
the evils Of the game,'' he said. tho
he has not laid as much stress as j
would upon it's narrowing effect upon
it's ,devotees. The men who follow foot
ball lose immensely. They miss half Of
the things in their college life that
would give them a broader outlooI
upon life. Few of them go out well
equipped. No sport should be allowed
;. to grow so absorbing as football is al
i -Ipresent.'
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