Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-03
TRAINING TABLES SURVIVE 4
COLLEGE PREPARING TO
RETAIN THEM THIS FALL
In SPITE OF Proposed Abolition OF Pre-
liminnry Football Workouts They
VIII Also lie Continued.
PnILADEIPIlA

PHILADELPHIA. August 2.-Thc
mere fac, that the Eastern universi
having come TO any agreement on the
subject of preliminary football train
ing or the training table is a pretty
good indication that most Of them in
tend TO revive these pre-war practices
ior inc development of their football
teams. And all this in the face OF the
resolutions adopted At the meeting of
the National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
CATION last winter. condcmninE both.
; hnu conquered IN by nearly all the
leading Eastern universities.
An effort was made by ono of the
IeAdins universities in the East. and
not in New England, either. 10 bring
the big institutions of this section to-
scther for conference in order that
some plan might he agreed upon for
adoption by all. The conference was
soush' by friends Of the movement to
no training table. and no extensive
footoa!l training preparations in adj
vance OF tho opening of the college
year ~ college men III general could
know Just how rcactionary some of
the supposed leaders in college re
forms are on these subjects, or how
they are tied hand and foot by the
determination of the students to have
a hrst-class football team. no matter
what the cost. they would be shocked
10 say the least.
Students Oppose Reforms.
The fact Of the matter is that the re-
Keen for these reforms. or don't sec
the need of them. Possibly they have
.s without athletics for SO long that
or. more likely. they feel as many close
loiiowers of college sports do, that the
professional reformers in, this field
subject OF athletic evils"
one OF the sanest ideas concerning
the 5rSining table is that advanced by
rersity OF Pennsylvania Athletic coun-
en-; HIS suggestion is that in the COM
mons or dining hall of each university
members of the athletic. teams where
they might eat together and. while
pensivev than their fellows, they should
have the sort of food they need to get
them into proper physical condition.
There is no question that students
need some supervision reeardin~ ,bni,
eating There is a tendency for them
to to era b a sandwich and cup, of coffee
square meal, The late Mike Murphy
used TO say that this indiscriminate
sort OF eating was the worst thing
ing his teams. The training table mas
developed into an item of very great
expense.
Might De Run Chcaply.
IL could easily be cut, down 10
posed by Dean Mcclellan could be
carried out the moral as well as phys
ISdi erect would be very beneficial
There would certainly be no evil cor
nscted with such a training table
Dean Mcclellan would also have the
atA!etic teams housed in q separate
d.6rmitory and their rents collected by
we university administration. This
would do away with the tendency TO
cater to TIE athletics students.
hut IN The absence Of any agreement
on me subject of training Ia bles. pre-
iini nary training. etc, we might just
as wei! look for the RESUMPTION of
these alleged evlA though perhaps in
4 !! m m'diiied form Competition is most
university doesn't want a rival 10 rat
rn e.. better of IT, And il said rival
me matters of these reforms II is
WY, T. ~ 600 guess that it won't. go
colleges cannot be blamed for rcfms
ing 70 reform their systems until they
an get something like-unaninous az
non. 1t is at crucial times like M. I
,nn;a, me East realizes. or should re-
ti"e. the superiority Of the conf.rorcc
ldea OF the Middle West. where ,Inani.
nous action is obtained for ali such /