Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-19
Big Three Using War as an
AAibi for Dropping Sports

uf big games big teams, big sums ~
money, blg coaching stats aud an
that ga sport, have passed Ihry
want tn make sport what they can
normal" VIII they succeed
Must Not Abolish Sports.
while every one does agree that aU
undergraduates should participate In
athletics II viii he Of no aid, IN order
tu bring this about. to abolish Inter
collegiate athletic competition. "
human nnturr which has developed
aud now dt.ma niJs the adHtter 10 III"
most intensive FORMS. and wo are he-
ginning to note that those intensive
forms Of sport nre meeting with the
approval Of The army as well ns MI
Ing a national physical need,
Neither ls II going 10 be an easy
matter. once war IN over, to ofer
some substitute for the Intensive cot
legc spirit which intercollegiate sport
has developed, n spirit which N both
healthy ana normal In youth, car
toons and lampoona 90 the coniihry
uotwithatandng
what IL 20 he the result OF thlh
under cover struggle IN tho homes or
the "Big Three Surely Il VIII he
/ farther reaching than the mere pues-
lor intercollegiate sport during the
present war We may well look 10
the army for this result
Griddcrs IN War,
! recently discussed the present al
tltude Of Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton towards sport with many officers
! in one Of the cantonments Officers
who had been star football players in
their day men who have sacrificed
much 10 odo their par1 In this great
4 war.
with one accord they tell me that
the army from General Iershing
down ls after Tanklng every man IN
athlete, that AZ some cantonments the
time formerly given to setting up eN-
errises IN now allotted to competitive
athletics and that these games are
doing q big work
Aud with one accord these same
officers are out OF patience with the
Big Three attitude: they think mat
II this war continues for some years
the best job our colleges can do Us To
make athletes out of their students
and at no S,,Idsffice OF ,ime N olntr ,',.
wa.s.s ,.y cnn sec no bad tast"
-, ,,. "lig Three" PLAYING i"o,vp,, ,',,,
,,.,,,.s chen the men VINO h'e b''N
a. siyb, mink " the best p,h"'
,r,,oy also ,bcHeVe that IL Wo".u
- r,.n far better had these phn,e'
lhenn played this past fail TOT pau,o ,rs,
a., ends and that such courh'
uo,,td also have prevented 'ho -.
49,, the rounds that each c"hoeie'
e. nrbcdu,ed games through ie''
,s,a,, That reason for abandoh'h
t.,,srcctl.ginte athletics has grown
4 -, ~ the denials made thht " ""
Z nn, a contributing cause In IN" "'
], Reason for Quitting.
70 - ,h.se officers the rehNo'
r hv vale. Harvard and fr'nee"
y ahandoued IntercolleRiate nthlsu'n
- .,ar, of the war--that inc ~
e 80. ma then desired g. ana he'i
J. an thought IL "bad tnstei 'h''
:. ,h.tr nthIetra had gone mt" serN
ID ,a',a,h.r with most men oyer l"eh'
,e a. and that they haA .coufAsh
= military training .,a1 N
o, an, these officers hrEued w
~ other colleges as hard hlt az ~,
NJ way had gone aheAd WIN w" ~
n le,ic program. and thar nv NV,
~ ,onmcnts Some rcasohholy ''i'
re eleyrns had been deNe''p'" 40
ed face of much more f'E"tou1
w. ulP than any collekc man ,... 81
Judgment leads one !"
~ rc.ntt OF the war upon Sport
lte ~, tt,rve,d and princeton VII
viii ,'iu other colleges. q ucWend
ate - intercollegiate athleu's "i'l
lso a ,,uch an before hut with Ia
'lic IA more attention paid To lh'r'
ted l arol snort or sport FOR an Hln Hl,n1
in Isc,usr n, lhs youth Of the land VIII
ere 80 rhe present reform m'