Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
ST. VlNCENTS TO
CURTAIL SPORTS
GAMES WITH OUTSIDERS TO
BE ABOLISHED
Athletics to Be Confined Strictly to
Contests Among Student Body
only-Competitive Events
Will Be Cancelled

President Glass of st. Vincent col.
lege yesterday confirmed his letter to
The Herald last Friday, and besides,
stated emphatically the Saints would
not compete in athletics with any
other school henceforth and that that
branch of student life would be re-
stricted to the student body of the
school. When asked whether the base
ball schedule would be dropped the
president replied that baseball would
be restricted to home competition and
all games with other schools would be
Cancelled.
The president, giving his reasons for
taking the stand he has to abolish ath-
letic competition with other institu-
tions, in an interview yesterday said:
Il have had this change in mind for
a long time and recent pressure
brought to bear by parents of students
at this school, has caused me to de-
clare for the change. We can try the
experiment at least and l think the
plan will prove feasible when given a
tryout. Under the present
conditions of college athletics, the stu
dent after he has worked in a football
squad from o'clock until dark. is too
tagged to put in an evening of study
and this condition does not tend to-
ward advancing his standing in schol-
arship."
Student Criticises Athletes
At the recent examination held at
the Catholic institution, a country boy
from Arizona, in his second year in the
department, covered the
present situation in the American coll
leges in an article in the following
way: Athletics are all right, but from
my study of athletic conditions in this
country, athletes get more prominence
than the man with brains
This article, coming from a rather
unexpected source, impressed the pres
ident considerably.
Speaking of the incident, the presi-
dent said: "Now to show how close
the young man came to the truth; let
us suppose, for illustration, that we
had accosted an average citizen and
put this question to him: Who is the
most prominent student at Yale today?'
What do you suppose his answer would
be? Coy, of course nine times out of
ten"
Under the proposed system of hand
ling athletics all students will have an
equal opportunity to get the value of
physical development, while in the past
the more skilled, who have made the
teams that have represented the school.
have derived all the benefit, and the
remainder of the student body, to use
its presidents words, "have received
their physical development following
the yell leader"
Will Pattern After Poly
The same scheme under which ath-
letics at Polytechnic high are proving
so successful will be followed at the
Catholic school. This system gives all
students an equal opportunity in the
games and the more skilled become
the leaders of the different teams.
The change in athletics at st. Vim
cents will leave Coach Rheinschild
without a berth, as it is understood
under the new conditions the American
game will be dropped and another of
the different football games adopted,
probably soccer.
The changing of athletic conditions
with the Saints brings up the Ques-
ton: Did not the present lack of
opponents since the organization of
the conference have something to do
with it? 1t is a known fact that the
Saints, in both football and baseball,
have been too strongly represented
for the remainder of the schools out
side of the conference in Southern Cali
fornia. and that to bring teams from
stanford and Berkeley to this city for
games is attended by too great expense
to prove a success financially. a
game with the University of Utah also
would be under great expense. There
fore. under existing conditions, it seems
that the Saints had no other course to
pursue.
The present conference situation
seems to be very much in the form of
trust, or a merger of the talent, in
which the outsiders, although qualified
as much as the Saints were to compete
with them, have no chance to join In
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