New Britain herald., 1922-01-19
LOWELL HITS OUT
 AT HARVARD POLICY
University Head Hints Only Yale
 Game Will Be Retained

Cambridge. Mass, Jan. 19.-Presi,
 dent A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard
 In his annual report indicates tha, perhaps 1t might be best for Harvard 1 football that only the game with Yale
 be played. the other contests generally
 leading up to that climax be abandon led and intramural contests be substi-
 tutcd. Dr. Lowell in speaking about
 football, declares:
 "A most difficult question is raised
 by the nature of the Intercollegiate
 football games. The public interest
 which was formely concentrated on
 the Yale game in greater degree than 1t Is now. has extended to those
 with other colleges; and this year the attendance at the whole series has
 been larger than ever before. Although the severity of the injuries suffered, and especially the danger of life, have been materially diminished by the changes in the rules made a dozen years ago, football remains a rough and strenuous sport which injuries are often received that impair the efiicien- cy of the players for a couple of weeks or more.
 Tn order, therefore, to keep them in good condition for the two prin- cipal games with Princeton and Yale at the close of the season 1t has been the habit to keep out of the games with other colleges some, or in many cases all, of the members of the first eleven. playing in fact second team. Mt l,o Nf al ir,t To arrange a match with another col lege and then not put on the field our regular team, but an eleven com posed of substitutes, has been criti- cized as unsportsmanlike: and yet what else can be done if to play in these games is almost certain to crip- pie some members of our team before it has reached it's maturity in train ing?
 Criticized for Being "Homc Team'
 Criticism has been directed also to our refusal to play games off our own field except with Princeton and Yale. Such a policy has been alleged to be exclusive if not arrogant. Based upon the same feeling is the demand that Harvard ought to play with more teams from other parts of the country and at its last meeting the Associated clubs passed a vote urging that our eleven should play with one of the great colleges of the Middle West in alternate years at the stadium and on the field of that college.
 "If, like the professional baseball leagues, the object of the college foot ball teams is to carry on contest for championship 1t is not quite clear how these demands can be prov ed unreasonable. But the faculty as- that education Is the prime object of the college, is of opinion that the members of the team, their substi- tutes, managers, etc, cannot be ab- sent from Cambridge more than they | Ire now without detriment to their studies.
 "The present policy in college foot oall has not been the result of de- iberate plan. It has grown up by ,ented year by year and is not based lpon any principle recognized as inn oerative by faculties, alumni and spectators. The public interest in the sport as spectacle has become gen. eral over the country and has in- creased markedly since the war. It 1as tended to give excessive inn oortance to college athletic contests.
 Value of Athletics
 That intercollegiate matches have ! distinct value in stimulating sports, which are the best form of physical