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We says more than that Hs says Il
is the best American college football
lean since Foster Sanford was n
Iiudont a. Yale. nearly a quarter of
century ago.
That's going somel
And lost this might be taken by tho
people opposed 90 wartime sport 90
Indicate that Rutgers In noElectinE ltB
duty 10 the nation. let mo give you n
few facts about Rutgers and the war
Among the star football mon In
Rutgers classes from 1g13-1gi7 there
are now In active service fifteen U. g.
Army officers. nine students In Of
flcer training camps, and eight
privates and seamen.
Rutgers baseball teams have fur
nished one officer. three students and
four segmen.
From Rutgers track teams there
are ten u. 3. Army officers, one
:, Student and seven seamen and army
privates.
Total. twenty-six commissioned Of
flcers, thirteen officer camp students,
nineteen privates and soamen, or
fifty-eight men from the athletic
teams. or course. Rutgers has sup
piled n great many more men from
the student body-men who were not
members OF the Varsity athletic
teams. but who will also do their full
share Of fighting when the time
comes.
On this showing there can be no
chance TO criticize Rutgers for keep
ing up football.
TWO hundred college athletes have
received commissions after three
months OF intensive training at
the officers training camp at Fort
sheridan.
Followers Of athletics will be In
terested in the fact that among these
10 James Lightbody, the great runner.
who went 70 Athens with tho Olympic
team In 1905 and won the 1900 metro
run Some time aftsrward Nghtbody
became q professional athletic coach
and was engaged 20 train the German
athletic team that was 70 have COM
peted In the Berlin Olympics that
were cancelled because OF tho war
and that will never be held. He stayed
In Berlin for many months, and one
OF his pupils was the Crown Prince
Lightbody's description of German
official athletic sport was amusing
The Crown Prince could run only In
company with officers, and Il would
have been a great breach OF etiquette
for any ono TO go ahead OF him across
tho finish line. In a race his com
petitors" deferentially stayed at tho
Crown Princes heels and exercised
great care 20 be q respectful distance
behind him In the final sprint.
Naturally the Crown Prince took a
keen interest IN athletics.
- oBERr SIMPSON, the wonder
X ful hurdler from Missouri, who
startled tho world a year or
two ago by clipping the 120-yard
hurdle record down TO II 2-6 seconds.
and who usually won the high and the
low hurdles. the broad jump and the
sprints wherever he competed, has
received a commission at Fort Sher-
man. SO has Robert A. Gardner,
national amateur golf champion In
1909.
WITH nearly every member OF
w all our college football teams
now awaiting the call 10 ac-
tive service, with all our college and
many OF our club athletes under tho
oolors, who can tell what great bene-
fits may come 20 the United States
through the system OF national ath-
letic sports that has grown 40 re-
markably during the past ten or fif-
teen years?
James r. Sullivan, for many years
head OF the Amateur Athletic Union.
was unfortunate in not living TO see
this day. 1t was James T.. Sullivan,
more than any other man, who de-
veloped athletic competition In our
public schools all over the country.
> The public schools have turned out
thousands OF splendid athletes, and
The general spirit OF competition and
clean living encouraged by athletics
has made the country stronger in
clean-strain fighting men. James f..
Sulllvan's only son is now In an on
GERS training camp, and likely TO be
commissioned.
UNBOAT SMITH has had a
NJ rather remarkable ring career
Coming out OF the West with
out any reputation worth mentioning
he whipped all the best OF the East
ern heavyweights by knocking them
out In a few rounds. Like Fitzsim-
mons, the Gunner was a slightly
built heavyweight. lean, wiTy and
able to deliver a tremendous blow
Boxing skill seemed TO be no defense
against his deadly wallop. on on,
trip 10 the Pacific Coast he beat
y Jess Withdrawing Willard about
seventy pounds weight handicap
and handed another trimming tC
Frank Moran, who was then "a hardy
rugged Lghtcr. lie oven beat Sam
Iangford when sam was good Later
Sam stopped the Gunner. n tool
Fred Fulton 10 repeat that trick.
Fulton VIII have TO be taken seri,
ously as a possible contender for thJ
heavyweight championship, now thai
he has stopped both Langford and