The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-05
PUT ATHLETICS
.. !. ON Sane BASIS
President Faunce of Brown Uni
versity Sounds Keynote.
PREPARATION FOR WAR LIFE
Reconstruction Of College Sports Oh
Safe Foundation Increasing at
Eastern Educational lnstitu.
tions-Two Statements.

'''hAAdANhA III AuFbA vi "a IttUtl~LI UC-
ton Of college athletics after the war
upon what has been termed Il safc and
sane basis. is sald TO be increasing at
Eastern educational institutions aud
Is likely to be the subject of cons!d-
GRAFTON at the coming annual meeting
Of the National Collegiate Athletic as
ISOLATION.
An idea Of the attitude in this az.
rection as the result of what might
be considered experiments during The
football season just closed, can be
gained from two statements from
prominent Eastern universities touch
Ing upon the subject.
President Faunce Of Brown univcr.
sity, in a recent address upon college
athletics ut the Providence institution,
said:
We are well pleased with the re-
suit OF keeping ~ intercollegiate
sports on a simple and Inexpensive
basis In war time. out Of our Last
years football squad or 80 men, e
entered the service. This seems 70
show that wholesome outdoor Sports
Kept within bounds are 81 good prrpa.
ration for the soldiers lie. II our
camps cannot 90 without outdoor
games our colleges need not fear TO
encourage them.
Means SaEer Policies.
Let us hope that the enforced ab-
seuce of training tables 10 aH cur cob.
lcges and huge expenditures and far
ing publicity for individuals means the
Introduction OF sancr policies when
fhc war is ended and that The over
grown business OF securing gate re-
ceipts may give way 10 the genuine
play of college boys who. through such
play. become finer aud stronger men,"
Almost simultaneously the Vale
Alumni Weekly, in reviewing the foot
ball season at New Haven, printed the
following commentary:
~ look ahead suggests at least one
formidable need. Football will be re-
Sumed az Yale, as at Harvard and
Princeton, just as soon as conditions
az present beyond line control OF any
individuals permit. Ihe Yale freshmen
football team, every one of the clavea
and substitutes being memhprS oc ;he
university trimming units aud subject
10 their cNact,ug schedules, gave IN
account Of Itself which should not he
overlooked. Good material, but bet
,er spirit brought IL through a season
In which the se0rcboards told an In
tcreSting story and in which the char
1cter OF the team AID - training
amounted 90 au inspiration.
viii Yale % Il?
"Will Yale, then, have the courage
20 resume varsity football next veal
or the year after, whenever it become.
q possibility, upon basis similar e
that which has proved so salGtary fol
the freshman team? VIII Ynle b,
willing at least to help lead the way
to purcr arot"urism and less of III,
spirit OF professionalism, TO more o
sensible economy in Keeping with In,
purposes OF the university and loss o
extravaganza smuCkiug Of Comner
cialism, 90 less of the trumped.up pub
lie spectacle with its hero Worship an,
other inevitable evils and more Of tia
college sport for the sake OF Co.lcg
sport as such2
"We cannot think too hard or to-
often upon these things. To prov
blind 10 tho opportunity would be
lumenlahic Thing To seize II and cot
rs intercollegiate athletics, football Is
pccidlly, far away from its ancicn
"a.
ideal viii be splendid. Believing thi
and working for this now will win hal
of the battle