New-York tribune., 1922-02-23
Princeton and
Yale Call for
Sport Cleanup
Prof. Mendcll Insists Foot
ball Coaches &c Placed in
Stands at Games and
Students Run the Teams
Fears Effect of Abuses
President Hibbcn Would
Lift Cloud Of Doubt as
to Standard of Athletics
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NEW HAVEN. Feb. % Declaring
nat collogc Students should play the
.zmc themselves" in football 40 they
% le 'hcir studies. Professor Clarence
Ncndoll. chairman Of tho Board Of
ou'rol Of tho Vale Athletic Associa-
non. in a speech at the annual alumni
asy luncheon to-day proposed that
coaches nc kept in the grandstand
vriic contests arc under way.
Behind the widely quoted state
ments OF \. Lawrence Lowell. president
81 Harvard. and Alexander Mciklciohn.
president Of Amherst lies the firm
sou'ictlon' which is. think. almost
.nlTer al. that too much Importance is
'ttach cd throughout the country to the
sg football games Professor Mcndell
ad. Perhaps those most closely
r'rnectcd with football arc tho most
slNous that this situation be correct
d.
No Question OF Abolishing Games
Agree ing with President Lowell. who
more 'han ten years ago pointed out
tie tendencies IN sport Professor
Wendell said The question is not
whether football is to be abandoned.
bgt how 30 protect it against abuses
Which threaten its existence. "Foot
bal IS too fine q game to be lost" he
said
Thc most insistent OF the abuses
rrofes or Nondol said, is profession.
sli1nc or the game.
BY this mean he said. mot more
j. the transfer into college Of men
uhose sole object is to play football, but
$50 the transfer OF the game from the
Undergraduate to the coach.
"At this point. however, ! take issue
rlth Pres dent Meiklej john. would not
gsi rid of coaches; I would insure the
rlsylng of the entire game BY the
undergraduates after they had been
Nsred just as we'll as possible by the
best coaches available.
ain the field of scholarship VIC try
70 give the under rgraduate the very
best that We have and then VIC count
en- him 70 make use of his own initi-
st.,e. Just so in football We should
eye The benefit of the best possible
raining to ali the mon who can be
brought out to play one of the finest
genes ever invented, but let them play
the game Themselves.
AS practical step toward accom-
pishing what We can probably agree is
the obiec' 10 be sought it seems to
NE wise further TO restrict the hand
ling Of the team during the game.
Tad Jones already has spoken forcibly
on this subject he has advocated 2
chauge in rules which would tend tc
place the game more in the hands OF
the players should go further thar
he has gone and be in favor of putting
al me coaches in the grandstand
While the game is. being played
In discussing thc second phase o
roiess lonalism, "the undesirability o
i'e called tramp athlete Professo
N'adell said that Yale had suggested
nrc than year ago an agreement b.
zach no man who had represented on
ulcge should be allowed thereafter t
spresent another.
4 hope the day VIII not be far dis
tant when Harvard, Princeton and al
car agree upon some practical regula
ton e. a safeguard for true sportsman
shin. Professor Mendcll said.
"I am not sure | understand wha
Professor Meiklejohn intends by hi
suggestion Of abolishing all boards O
control, as we'll as coaches" he con
tnued The department Of athletic
has become too important factor t
make il wise or even possible to returl
TO the haphazard methods of manage
ment which would result from leavinl
its affairs entirely in the hands OF
dergraduates -