Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-10
Pure College Sports
For All Students
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON.

The national collegiate athletic as
sociation has met and out Of the meet
ing has come one big idea; an idea
that win not down until It is ac-
cepted
II is the "Andover idea"
Briefly stated, It is the question
as to whether college sports shall bo
for the benefit of The students with
a view Of producing athletic youth
or whether it shall be a competition
between colleges chiefly for the gate
receipts and tho winnings Of the
sporting members of the student body.
Al the meeting football was vigor-
ously attacked from several different
angles and as vigorously defended.
We note that the defense came chiefly
from the colleges with winning teams
and mat the opposition 10 the game
arose chiefly from schools that have
produced annual losers.
Houghton Of Harvard INDUCED i'm n
great flight Of praise for the game
from the view OF brain over Drawn,
hut the time never has been nor ever
will be in college football when
fellow can make the team by winning
scholarships, or when l25-pouud
man who is a shark i'm mathematics
can stop Maulbctsch or amy 20O-pound
mmmaN who dives at him.
The Andover idea is the big thing
that came from the conference of the
athletic leaders In American coll
leges the competition OF college
against college never has nor ever
will produce athletics save a few rare
specimens and the benefit chiefly is
In, a In, 4.
of advertising.
Fully so per cent of the men who
played football on our larger college
teams last fall were not I'm college to
gain cducations but to play football.
This may hurt the sensibilties of
some of the athletic leaders but every
undergraduate knows It, and In every
college it is common talk.
The football man as rule is a
joke as student
The same applies in a lesser degree
10 other college sports. We haven't
the slightest objection to these fellows
going to college or playing games but
let them do so frankly and advertise
it as money-making plan.
The thing we object TO is that the
regular student who might gain some
athletic benefit in school as by.
product of his education practically
is barred from competition or from
indulgfng In sports because tho
coaches have no time to waste upon
them.
The duty of the modern coach Is
to produce a winning football team;
not to develop the bodies OF the stu.
dents.
Wisconsin. on the figures has q
larger proportion OF actual students
engaged in athletics than any other
school. Yale runs high in that re-
gard. But six out of eight of them
get little help and less encourage
ment from the trained coaches hired
on the theory that they are benefit
ting the physical body.
Those fellows are busy with a
bunch OF huskies recruited from all
sorts OF places to uphold the "honor
OF the school"
The Andover idea is to have as
many Of the actual students Engaged
in sports and pastmes as possible;
to cut out contests with other inst-
tutions and to promote college spirit,
class spirit and improve the physical
body OF the students, through games
played between societies, classes or
other parts Of the student body.
We will miss the spectacular con
tests and, perhaps, the athletic de-
partments will miss the income--but
If we want pure college sports, pure
amateurism and the athletic advance
ment of the entire student body the
Andover idea furnishes the only so
luton.