The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21
LEAVE THE BOY
. ATHLETES ALONE.
BILL" REID.
Harvard Coach Says Colleges
Should Get Their Material
Legitimately.
ELIMINATE Vi THE HIGH. SCHOOL
In This Way, Says Reid, College
Sport Would Be Greatly
Purified.
THE HIGH SCHOOL


BOSTON, MASS. January 2o.-william
T. Reid. Jr., Inrvard's head football
coach. in a recent talk on athletics an
nounced as his belief that If an end
were put to the solicitation of high school
athletics college sport would be greatly
purified.
The noted coach said that he believed
In athletics from moral standpoint. as
sports took away the great excess OF vi
tally In manhood, and used his vitality
for a splendid purpose when otherwise II
might be dissipated in vices of many
sorts.
Mr.. Reid outlined the situation as fol-
lows:
The country Mt large demanded clear
sport, and at present this demand was
such that 1t had to oe met at any
cost. Graft and corruption in business
methods of the present day he attributed
as the basis of much evil in college atli-
letics. as the most admirable method u
advancement were not given the stu
dents. and consequently both graft anc
corruption crept into college athletics.
The causes Of the troubles in athletics
were placed under five heads: First H.
tn ehome; second, in the smaller schools;
third; in the larger schools; fourth, In the
universities. and firth, in what took place
in the universities.
Parents were blamed for allowing their
sons to go to universities where induce
ments were offered; at smaller schools
the boys learned to evade the rules; the
bigger preparatory schools were responsi-
bic for solicitation OF athletes at some
OF the universities the PROSECUTING was no.
torious. and universities did not take .he
best method OF advancing clean sport
through their trainers and coaches
"The making of team depends on the
material left over from the preceding year
and on the incoming students, and ais
In the proper method of handling this ma
terial.'' said Mr.. Reid
There arc two ways of getting this ma
terial-legitimately and illegitimately. The
legitimate way finds students entering
with the purpose OF following out theft
previous desire to become identified with
the university as true sons OF the uniyer-
slty. The illegitimate method is founa
in the PROSECUTING which is carried on 10
such large extent.
1T Is a difficult matter TO draw III,
line between legitimate and illeg!timaic
methods OF solicitation. and the only
remedy to Offset the same is to elinii
nate solicitation entirely. This must be
stopped Immediately, to provide a good
basis for pure athletics and clean spori
The larger preparatory schools We're sc.
yerely criticised for PROSECUTING method
What we want in Harvard" continuec
Coach Reid, ARE teams made up of me;
who come TO Cambridge for the expires
purpose of being sons of Harvard. VIII
viii participate in sports in clean
manly fashion; who will take victory
defeat as men should and. II beaten, TAX
off their caps to their conquerors, pro
vided they are beaten by fair means
Coach Reid also told of the crying neef
of proper support being given the OF
ficials for rigid enforcement of the rules
SO that they can live up to their duties
without danger OF insult or loss of posi-
ton. Mr. Reid concluded by denying alb
solutely the existence of any fayoritistn
in athletics at Harvard in the last de
cade.