The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
None But Seniors
 on Varsity Team,
 Metzger's Remedy
Professionalism, Proselyting, and Playing for Nothing But Victory, Will Be Abolished by Making Member ship An Honor, Believes Athletic Coach.

The advocates of "'sport for alr' in our educational institutions have adopted a slogan which appeals to all classes It is the most universally popular athletic propaganda ever launched upon the American public. The war has crystaIlized it Therefore every educational or athletic man who talks on sport during these strenuous days is as given to a laudation of this ideaIistic form of physical culture as is the politician to patriotic phrases. Like all idealisms Sport for alp is far more easy to eulogize than to ac- eumplish.
 Unfortunately, sport for all has been deaH with entirely too generally. Few of it's advocates have gotten down to fact. There has been an avoidance of the practical and com nlex problems it's realization fn our colleges would have to surmount- Vii tai points have been carefully avoided for glitteEing generalities and high sounding phrases. Witness the Yale-Harvard situation now that Princeton has come out in
 
 we find worthy gentlemen devoting mnch tirae' to an arrangement of in tercolleElate sport and but little to a ! plan Of what they are striving for. I They are iconoclaStic-not construc- tsve-in their public methods of deal ing with the situation. Because of | this they have been subjected to much censure at the hands of the press and we find them in a. defen- sive, position, whereas, as advocates of a new regime in college athletics, they shouId be on the offensive.
 It seen>~ as though both sides in this present intercollegiate athletic tangle--if they only knew it-are striving for much the same result. Take the two extremes profes- sional coach and the academic agita- tor. Tho former wants more and more experienced candidates for his; teams; tho latter wants every student playing these games. It would seem they are rl common ground.
 Unforturate:y there is another type :n educational work which is at odds with the views of the two mentioned -- -above. refer to those dried profes- scrs who oppose all athletics. They are pscifists They have no place ir the work or play of a nation. Bal 'anced minds were never more needed than today. Consequently this tyne of educator may be dismissed in deal ing with any athletic problem. Having seen wherein all balanced educators and athletic officials are striving fer much the same thing lei us now examine the question of sport for all. Sport for all goes far be- iyond the realm of intercollegiate ath- 1ezics; far beyond the vision of intra- mural sport; and extends ttse1 throughout our whole educationa. system, else it misses it's mark Its re- lalizat1on is a big work. The co1legt can in no way solve it alone.
 True. this might work hardship il the beginning. but in the end it would supply our colleges with balanced young men each capable of filling hi place in the days work of the future lin a far moro efficient manner thai has been the case in the past, Ant such a standard would f0pce our en tfre preparatory school system zEterein the courses are modelled t