Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-04-12
WANT MORE
ATHLETICS
YALE WOULD INCREASE, NOT
DIMINISH
Looks on Latest t1ase of Harvard
Athletic Situation as Purely
Harvard Matter, Says Or
gan of Ellis

NEW YORK. April 11.-That Yale
does not agree with Harvard in the lat
ter's idea of restricting sport is proven
by an editorial in the Yale Alumni
Weekly, which reflects the sentiment of
the Ellis. 1t reads: 1--WE look upon the
latest phase of the Harvard athletic
situation as purely Harvard matter,
and as one that can hardly concern
Yale or Yale policies, except in so far
as it affects the relation which Harvard
bears to Yale on the field and water
No such effort as Harvard is making to
curtail sports is to be made at Yale, at
least, where, in spite of common report
to the contrary, athletics and athletic
policies do not take up the major part
of the time and thought of the under
graduates and of the faculty.
Each university must look upon
these perennial questions of athletic
policy from it's own peculiar point of
view and decide them on local grounds.
Thus, for instance, the athletic situation
at Yale unquestionably calls for entirely
different treatment than that which the
Harvard faculty thinks is best for
Harvard. Yale does not believe in too
much athletics, certainly not too much
intercollegiate athletics at the present
time in her own schedules. University
spirit is unquestionably fostered by
numerous intercollegiate contests, ath-
letes have some goal to work for ana
the Saturday afternoon games during
the season kept men in New haven and
away from New York. Alumni interest
and pride in the university is undoubt-
eddy renewed and rekindled by inter-
collegiate victories. What Yale needs
is not a curtailment of these not too
MANY intercollegiate games, but a de-
velopment of athletic contests among
the undergraduates themselves and on
their own field.
What Yale Needs
What Yale needs today, and needs
badly, is a sufficient athletic equip
nent to make it possible for more
men to go into athletics, not less,
though not necessarily into intercol-
legiate athletics. We have never
been a strong believer in an athletic
system that develops one crew, one
baseball nine, one football team. bue
we do believe thoroughly in a system
that will give many crews and many
baseball and football teams.
There should be at Yale in the fall
many football elevens, representing
dcrmitories, classes or clubs. If
American IOOIDdll WOu1u UG IOO SONSiS
for the majority of these men, the as
ISOLATION game, now being introduced
at Yale could take its place. In the
spring there should be dozens OF dor
mitory. class or department baseball
mines competing for the university
championship.
"a start has been made in that line
this year. There should not be one
varsity crew and substitutes. There
should be many crews, made up or
men from departments, classes, cam
puses or dormitories. These things
can come at Yale, but they cannot
come until Yale has an adequate boat
house, enough shells and large
enough athletic field for dozens of
teams to play on during the season.
The present boat house is so small
that scores of men are turned away
from rowing every year because of the
lack of space for the exercise.
'There are but three or four
crowded baseball diamonds and foot
ball gridirons at Yale. This neces-
sarily crowds out of participation in
athletic games hundreds of men who
desire to go in for them and creates
the one team system which is not the
best result that should be attained.
"Harvards radical move toward the
curtailment of intercollegiate athletics
may be quite right for Harvard. We
do not presume to question that fact.
But its connection for Yale is very de-
cidedly in a different direction. Yale's
very decided need is not to curta1l in
tercollegiate contests. 1t is to make
possible a wider interest and partici-
patton in athletic games for the large
number of we'll balanced and all
around undergraduates who are now
unable to participate in them and who
are forced into idleness while varsity
elevens and crews are developed out
of specially gifted material"