New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

things more serious than athletic
rivalry"
We called next upon Professor Rob-
ert y. Corwin, the famous Bob Corwin,
who captained the Yale eleven in 1856
and who now is faculty director of
Yale's athletics He has a son, also a
former Yale athlete, who is now an
officer in the National Army, having
won his commission at the first Platts-
burg camp.
For Creates. Good
Professor Corwin loves athletics as
he did thirty years ago, and he wouldn I
have been a Yale captain II he dldnt
want 10 see the Blue facing the Crlm-
son over a chalk marked field. But now
that must he foregone, for II Is ms oplh-
ion that during the war at least avn
letics should be conducted for the
greatest good Of the many. And there
is a far bigger game overseas than ever
was seen in a Yale Bowl or Harvard
Stadium.
He has written:
"Yale's problem is to give our ath-
letics a military basis and purpose
during the term Of the war. ms
cannot be done by reviving our oid-
time intercollegiate schedules or &c
voting all of our resources 70 the
DEVELOPMENT of nine or eleven men
Of SURPRISING skill and endurance
What is needed rather is recred-
ton and exercise for every man VINO
is physically fit, so that ne may DC
better equipped for serving ms coun-
try and the cause of humanity IN TINS
time of peril.
hot =
all Vale men who are interested IN
atbletics and believe athletics IL
essential 10 college life and military
life 10 understand that there is no
nlan 10 curtail or discourage atm
ieucs. but rather TO give it a specl--
sc aim and to make it available ana
useful TO every man who is looking
for service"
That is the football situation, so
far as Yale is concerned. Professor
Corwin smilingly said that even II
Yale wanted TO develop a university
eleven. which she didn't. there was but
one ~" man left in college, and ne
was there because he was too young
70 be accented for service. lie con-
tinued;
$50 far as "A university eleven is
concerned. we have been invited TO
NAV teams that are 10 be developed
At Newport Naval Training School,
and also al Plattsburg. Cupid Black
has what is almost equivalent TO an
all-Amcrican team at Newport, ana
/ don't know anything that could
make il interesting for them unless
we sent down our entire X. y. !. |.
George Adee, at Plattsburg, has an
eleven in prospect almost as strong,
and he also wants game. 1t IS just
possible that we might take them on
"The regular schedule has Deeh
confined 70 the freshman eleven. lhey
will play the Harvard freshmen AZ
Cambridge on November II ana the
Princeton freshman eleven here on
November "a. Exeter and possibly
Andover will also be played, For
the rest interclass games VIII SUI
fee"
Yale has no criticism Of those col
leges that have continued their regular
football season-Quite the contrary. IL
i wi+bal a somewhat personal cues
+ion which every college, as every man,
must decide for itself. Yale believes
that during the period of the war mill
tarv training comes first, and that attn
letics. while a logical corollary, should
be developed among the college as
whole TO further fit the young men
OF to-day for the physical trials Of
an inevitable tomorrow. It will hold
to that belief.
Breeds Fighting Men
So under the historic elms the under
class men march. And if now and
then a red-haired freshman breaks the
monotony Of his hike by treading upon
the heels of his lean, gawky neighbor
it does not lessen the fact that behind
it ali is the bulldog spirit, grim and
serious.
For Yale breeds fighting men.