Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-10

part of these reformers to promote a | scheme calling for sport for all in place of intercollegiate athletics. These | men, we may well reason, believe the | days of big games, big teams, big | sums of money, big coaching staffs i and all that in sport have passed. 1 They want, to make sport what they | call normal Will they succeed?
 While everyone does agree that all undergraduates should participate in athletics it will be of no aid, in order to bring this about, to abolish inter collegiate athletic competition. It is human nature which has developed and now demands the latter in its most intensive forms of sport are meeting with the appsoval of the ar my as well as filling national phy sical need.
 Neither is it going to be an easy matter, once war is over, to offer some substitute for the intensive college spirit which intercollegiate sport has developed, a spirit which is both healthy and normal in youth, cartoons and lampoons to the contrary notwith- standing
 What is to be the result of this un-
 
 Big Three" Surely it will be far ther reaching than the mere question Of whether they will resume major intercollegiate sport during the pres ent war. We may well look to the army for this result
 I recently discussed the present at titude 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 to do their part in this great war. With one accord they tell me that the army from General Pershing down is after making every man an athlete, that at some cantonments the time formerly given to setting up exercises is now allotted to competitive athlet- tcs and that these games are doing big work.
 And with one accord these same off, cers are out of patience with the Big Three" attitude: they think that if this war continues for some years the best job our colleges can do is to 1 make athletes out of their students and at no sacrifice of time in other work. They can see no bad taste in 1 the Big Three" playing football games when the men who are going to fight think it the best plan.
 1 They also believe that it would have been far. better had these games been played this past fall for patriotic l funds and that such a course would also have prevented the belief going | the rounds that each cancelled it's scheduled games through fear of de- l feat. That reason for abandoning in | tercollegiate athletics has grown in Espite of the denials made that it was not a contributing cause in this act. | I gave these officers the reasons why Yale. Harvard and Princeton aban- doned intercollegiate athletics at the start of the war-that the students had then desired it. and nearly all thought it bad taste" that all their athletes had gone into service togeth- CT with most men over twenty one, and that they had courses in military training
 But these officers argued that other colleges as hard hit in every way, had gone ahead with their athletic pro-
 grammes, and that at their canton lsment some easonably efficient elevens
 had been developed in the face of a much more rigorous schedule than any
 college man faced.
 Judgment leads one to believe that the result of the war upon sport al r. as with other colleges a tremendous
 one. Intercollegiate athletics will go
 ahead much as before but with more
 and more attention paid to intramura
 sport or sport for alI simply because
 the youth of the land will demand it
 The present reform movement will aid
 in gaining the one point-sport fol
 all It will be curbed in so far as its
 effect upon intercollegiate sport is
 concerned just as soon as the war is
 over and alumni can give active at.
 tention to the matter. As it is none too many graduates of these institu-
 tions favor the present attitude in the
 matter of sport. As one of them pu'
 it. "We tried to get away with a, big
 thing-and we failed"
 Copyright, 1918, by Sol Metzger). Horse Sense. Ira Ryerson is to train public sta ble at Goshen.
 There are 257 pacers in the 2.o5 lis for last season.
 , Braden Direct, 201 1-4 has been re tired from the turf.
 BInaWay. 2.10 If, IS dead, the re suit of broken back.
 F The half brother to Peter Scott 205 has been named Admiral Jellicoe. Allen Lou, 2.06 1-2, the star of til, 5 Chicago sale, went back to Califor l mia.
 , Dick McMahon will soon ship hi stable from Libertyville, H., to Ma