The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-02
THANKSGIVING SPORTS

II was the greatest play-day Berea
has ever seen. The ideal weather
favored outdoor sports, and almost
the entire student body was out on
the Fairgrounds playing games that
everybody can play. II was demon
strated beyond doubt that the old
time country sports are still popular,
and that the young men and women
who came from country homes are
still eager TO play the games they
played when they were children.
Soon after lunch the students Of
the College, Normal, Vocational, and
Foundation departments gathered
on the Main Athletic Field TO witness
o cross country run which was won
by Dewey Sharp, who showed splen-
did training and judgment in his
work. Immediately after this the
students flocked 10 the field by hun
dreds TO participate in the old circle
games so popular among the chill
dren Of the mountains. Marching
Round the Levy" Farmers in the
DELL" Oats, Peas, Beans" THE
Jolly Miller Boy" "Skip-to-my-
Lou" Carrying the Message" "Re-
lay Races" "Pig in the Parlor." other
games were played with the same
childlike spirit Of fun and good
humor that characterizes these
games out among the people Of the
countryside.
At one time on the field there were
four great features going on which
over 200 students and teachers were
actually playing. One was an out
door basket ball game, the other
three were circle games where the
students became like little children
again and played in the spirit OF a
little child.
For more than an hour these
games continued, the directors
changing from one TO another fire.
quently enough TO keep anyone Of
them from growing stale. Then came
game Of soccer football in which
nearly forty young men took part.
After that there were races OF var
ious kind between both boys and
girls, and then came the climax Of
the day when nearly 800 young men
and women joined hands in one
great circle and for half an hour
played one OF the most popular Of all
the old country games, Marching
Round the Levy" Then there was
an old negro folk song by hundreds
of voices. a few yells, and the sports
OF the day were over.
The Academy carried out its own
excellent and unique program on
Lincoln Field. Details Of this are
given in another column.
The sports OF the day were a part
OF the program outlined by a COM
mittee, a year ago which sought TO
provide recreation that would ap-
peal to all the students Of the insti-
tuition. This committee, composed
OF Deans Marsh, Clark, Matheny, Ed
wards, Professors Cromer and Peck,
with the writer as chairman, outlin-
ed a recreation policy that would
contain enough athletic features TO
appeal TO every student. They
thought then, and still think, that IL
is infinitely better for a thousand
young people TO be out on the ath-
letic fields actually at play than II
Is for 975 TO be sitting down watch
Ing the other twenty-five get all the
exercise and have all the fun. They
are not in sympathy with the GUS
lomary plan where q dozen or SO
the field and keep the
great mass of students sitting idly by
Is mere spectators. They believe
hat the ideal kind OF recreation for
Berea students is the kind that any
,ne can enter into without having
% spend long weeks and months in
lrduous training. And the unpre-
,edented number Of young men and
women who were on the fields
actually at play proved
,onclusively that the recreation pol
cy outlined by this committee is
he popular kind Of recreation for
3erea students.
The days sports were made pos
ible by the untiring efforts Of few
members OF the faculties OF various
departments, who have met the stu
Tents frequently during the fall for
outdoor games. These outdoor
meets where young men and women
'ome and play together under di-
'ection Of leaders. have become very
popular and will no doubt go long
way toward furnishing recreation OF
] wholesome but not strenuous kind
or all the students in the institution.
I is carrying out the policy OF fur
fishing country sports for country
'eople which many Of US are hoping
O see introduced in all schools for