Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-04-07
COLLEGE SPORT
IDEALS IMPROVE
Isolated CASES DO NOT FURNISH
GROUNDS FOR CONTENTION
THAT SPORTSMANSHIP IL DETE.
RIORATING COLLEGES.
STANDARD BEING RAISED
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR SAYS THAT
SOME ABUSES ARE BEING ELM
MATED. OR CONDITIONS M
PROVED.

Associated Press COrrcsp0Rdcncc.1
New York, Apri THAT the recent
attacks upon college athletics in which il
is charged that the spirit of sportsman-
ship Of inter varsity competition il de
teriorating fail Ia find general support
is evidenced by the many articles and
letters appearing i'm the college press of
the country. While il is admitted that
there are isolated eases which furnish
grounds for such contention the opinion
is overwhelmingly expressed that consid-
cred in u broad sense the standard and
ideals Of college sport is improving every
year
DIR. &. &. stroud. director If athletics
at Louisiana State University. in an in
teresting review and forecast Of college
athletics holds that the stndard of sport
and competition i'm the American college
Is steadily improving. lie does not con
tend that some of the abuses charged do
not exist but he points out that each year
secs the elimination or improvement Of
these conditions as the spirit and under
standing Of true college sportsmanship
spreads. DIR. Stroud states in part:
We spcakfrom many years Of practical
experience when we state that these evils
OEe IN><tuIIk. IhtIlN W. =
IL known. were i'm n measure tolerated.
Moral influences either could no speak
with authority or were UNDECIDED by the
mass Of student opinion il they did. How
different is ID today? I venture that there
is n, coach or captain in any college in
this land who could continue Ia outrage
dcccncv and the square deal. If II single
man al his team made Issue with him
before the faculty of the institution or
even before the court Of the whole stu
dent body. ! have had personal experience
on the faculties ~ four different univcr
stiles in widely separated sections II the
%e,untrv. and absolutely know that were
the issue ever made nj any Of these ON
any moral question that immortality
would have found no backing.
II is indeed. n problem rs many men
have found 10 their SORROW when they
have attempted single handed In rcv"lu
~t;oniza conditions. OF course notifies and
ul,erior motives often enter into the prob
lem Over jealous alumni and well mean
i.,g friends may endeayor to bring the
standard of the street. and the market
,,,,cc the dollar standard. back into the
college life. II all seems an interminable
conflict. so that il is natural to ask: Are
athletics worth the price, Does il profit
ms 10 he evcrlastincly haras>cd hv this
HYDRA. headed evil of onr student body mol
;t;co We answer unhesitatinclv Yes
Everything worth while requires 4 strre
.Jc Athletics have displaced many other
wills we of his age know not of. Inter
~eolIcciate athletics inspire the largest IN
.crest IN inira- collegiate sports. and there
i universal testimony TODAY 10 the value
at the latter i'm anv educational system.
There is no great difficulty in keepine
snort clean. II is its own e"d. and mn
fairness Is not sport for either nartv-
Great exhibitions like our football con.
sasts have an end outside themselves. and
scwetimes this end le,i"s IN question
.hIe means. Hopeful college men have
w"ch reason 10 believe that our intercol'