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

fAsSOciatcd Press CoTrcSpondcncc.)
New York. Apri THAT the recent
attacks upon college athletics in which il
is charged that the spirit of sportsman
ship at intcr-varsity competition is de
tcriorating fail To find general support
j. evidenced hy the many articles and
letters appearing in the college press of
the country. While il il admitted that
there are isolated eases which furnish
grounds foN such contention the opinion
is overwhelmingly expressed that consid
cred IN u broad sense the standard and
ideals of college sport j. improving every
year
Dir. &. 4. Stroud. director of athletics
nj Louisiana State University. ia an IN
tcrcsting review and forecast Of college
athletics holds that the stndard Of sport
and competition i'm the American college
* steadily improving. lie does not con
tend that some of the abuses charged do
not exist but he points out that each year
sees the elimination or improvement of
these conditions ~ the spirit aud under
standing Of true college SpnrtSmanShip
spreads. DIR. Stroud states ia part:
w spcakfrom many wears Of practical
experience when we state that these evils
are lcsscning. Formerly these influences
III known. were in a measure tolerated.
Moral Influences either could not speak
with authority or were UNDECIDED ~ the
mass Of student opinion If they did. How
different H. il today" | ycnturc that there
j. no coach or captain IN any college in
this land Who could continue ia outrage
,leccncy and the square deal. If a single
man of his team made issue with him
before the faculty of the institution or
even before the court Of the whole stu
dent body. ! nave had personal experience
nn the faculties Of four different nnivGr
stiles in widely separated sections If the
country. and absolutely know that were
the issue ever made at my Of these on
any moral question that immortality
would have found no backing.
II il indeed. u problem ~ many men
have found IL their sorrow when they
have ATTEMPTED single handed 10 rrvnlu
iioniya conditions. of course politics aud
Interior motives often enter into the prob
lem. Over. jealous alumni and well mean
inr friends may endeavot to bring the
standard of the street. aud the market
ploce. the dollar standard. back into the
college life. II all seems m interminahlc
conflict. 80 that il il natural IL ask. Ave
athletics worth the price, Does II pratt
rs "a he eycrlastinclv haraSscd ~ this
HYDRA headed evil Of our student body nnl
lite. We answer unhc>itatinglv Yes
Everything worth while requires a >irug
OLE Athletics have displaced marv other
evils we III this age know not ~. Iuter
collegiate athletics inspire the largest In
crest IN intra- collegiate sports. and there
= universal testimony TODAY "a the value
of he latter in anv educational system.
There is no great difficulty IN keeping
snort clean. 1t is its own end. and nm
fairness is not sport for either nartv.
Great exhibitions like onr football con
tests have an end ontSide themselves. and
sometimes this end leV'"~ 90 question
able means. Hopeful college men have
much reason 10 believe that our intcrcol