Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-30
Sporting News Of the Day
Another Side to College Athletics
Than Physical Development, Opinion.
OF President Kane of the University

Some time & President Lowell of
Harvard made the statement that he
would like to see every intercollegiate
football game done away with at his
university with the exception of the
n with Yale, and in the place inter-
class galnes scheduled. Princeton
backed him up in his attitude. but
Yale adopted the reverse attitude.
1t is quite easy to understand why
these men have swung in the direction
they have. The public demand for
more football has increased until in
the last as many as ten games are
scheduled during the season and more
elevens each year are making barn
storming' trips to the coast. However.
as President Charles r. Richmond of
Union College ays because the public
demands it is no reason why the
schools should consent to meet the de-
mand.
There has been no such feeling
among the heads of the western
schools. The Western conference has
a ruling that prevents more than sew,
en- games being played during a. sea-
son, and the football situation out
here is very healthy.
Situation in N. D..
Concerning the situation at North
Dakota university. President Thomas
Kane has the following to say:
Il have not seen the announcement
of. the plan proposed at Harvard for
combining their football to intra-mural
! game with Yale, nor Yale's reply of
disagreement. Such regulations as
| proposed are usually artificial and
the reasoning back of them academic.
we old chaps on the university facul-
ties, who are beginning to get stiff in
the joints, are rather prone to lay
! down rules that would apply better to
men of 35 or 40 than to students of
is to %. The remedy here is for a
man to recall his undergraduate days.
L believe on the faculty of our univer-
sity are to be found as many individ-
ual men who actually understand stu
dents and get the students viewpoint
as on any faculty in the country. I
! am reminded of this by discussions on
student problems in the council meet
ing last evening.
Works Both Ways.
"On the athletic problem back of
this Harvard regulation, all close stu
dents of university athletics are pretty
we'll agreed. 1t is difficult to get the
recognized benefits out of athletics
without having some of the influences
detrimental to the most important
. "OIk OIL TIE uIllNelSllS. 1ISlSe, lIlSl
are repeated attempts to get the ben
eficial effects of athletics for the indi-
vidual and the university life, with
out the distracting or detrimental fea.
lures.
Fer emample, in the discussion
yesterday in the university council one
member of the faculty a he would
like to see all the varsity football,
teams and basketball teams disorgan'
lied, and as a substitute every man ir
the university required to play foot.
ball and basketball. That sentiment
was expressed by a man peculiarly ap.
preciative of the benefits of athletic
training.
Plan Satisfactory.
1.-THE policy in athletics followed a
the University Of North Dakota repre-
sents my judgment on the approach tt
the university athletic problem. With
out any announced program of devel
opnent Mr.. Davis, u physical direc'
tor, has developed, so far as I know
the largest schedule of intramura
games in any university Of our size
This schedule is developed especial.
in connection with basketball am
baseball; to a smaller extent with foot
ball. because football does not lent
itself SC well as a game for green play
ers.
we have at the same time an in
tercollegiate schedule in these sports