The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-17
NOT ONLY ATHLETES
Yale Field Should Be Split Up for Use of the Entire
 University.
STADIUM FOR BIG TEAMS
Thus the Present Field Would Reach It's Original Purpose--Suggestio
 for New Boat House.

James Kingsley Blake. Yale '9l, writes tho following letter to tho Yale Alumni Weekly In the present Issue, regarding the proposed Yale stadium. The letter Is a plea for facilities to be used by students other than the mem bers of the varsity athletic teams, He says;
 sir-The opportunity which you have offered me to express my views as to the proposed Yale colosseum" or, as should prefer to call 1t, stadium Gas the word colosseum smacks too much of public spectacles and hired gladla- tors). is one which I am tempted to accept, because I want to emphasize the statements with which you closed your editorial on tho subject in your issue of December 2, namely, that the proposed structure. if erected should not be built on the present Ydlo field
 This ground was originally purchased through subscriptions from graduates, as a place for "athletlc games and ex- ercises and outdoor recreations" for the entire student body, and was held for these purposes by the Yale Field corporation for many years, by which organization itAwas turned over, about seven years ago, to the university "to be used solely for the outdoor sports and recreation of the students and in- structors in said university"
 Since its purchase the field. I regret to say, has (perhaps from necessity been largely diverted from It's origlnal purpose of general recreation ground to a place devoted almost exclusively to the development of our varsity teams and the public exhibition of the prowess of the completed product, to enormous audiences accommodated on the wooden grand stands erected on the land which might otherwise have been used for general athletic purposes as originally intended.
 Under the present conditions, am informed. there is little place for scrub games among the students, and few, f any, such are now held In the past this exclusion may have been a neces- sity, and the fact that the gate money received from the big games has help ed to pay the expense of the care of the field might perhaps be urged az a further justification for allowing the field to be thus appropriated but now we arc looking to tho future, and the erection of permanent structure at great expense on this land dedicated and accepted as recreation ground for the students at large should not be considered for an instant
 The Yale field ought to be restored to It's original purpose. and consider that one of the greatest arguments for a stadium. not placed on the field, Is that by this means the present stands could he removed and the space property utilized.
 The varsity teams could then practice on the new stadium field, and we might have two or three baseball da- monds or football grounds at the Yale field on which anyone might play whether he was varsity timber or not with sufficient space for lacrosse, soc- OCT footall, or other games. as the apir- 1t moved.
 In line with this and at the risk of making my letter too long, let me put in further plea for the non-athletio in connection with the new hoathouse
 If such house is erected lot it he not only for the regular crews. but lot 1t have room to contain light rowboats that the tyro can use 70 that all the students may be stimulated to get out on the water, and learn to love rowing ss 6 recreation
 Like the field our present boathouse hos been devoted exclusively to the champions; let us not now. when we are talking of new stadium and boat house, forget the needs of the every day student, who is not the bearer of a "" an individual who of late years might be called what Professor Sumner denominated the average steady-going citizen, "the forgotten man"
 JAHrTs KINGSLEY BLAKE, 'a1. New Haven, Conn, Dec. 2, 1908