Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
RIVALS ON CAMPUS
HELP ONE ANOTHER
DR.. Sanford, Pioneer, Points
to Great Strides Made
in Last Ten Years.
BY H. C. BYRD.

college sports over many years" says
Dean S. v. Sanford of the University
Of Georgia, who came here today at
noon with the Georgia lacrosse team,
which meets Maryland tomorrow.
ITO most of the people connected
with athletics" he continued changes
in methods of administration come
about in such a way that the really big
accomplishments sometimes are lost
sight of, but to us who have been more
or less actively managing sports for
many years the period from 10 years
ago to the present represents greater
advancement than was made in whole
previous 80 or 40 years that the colleges
and universities have fostered organ
lied sports"
Dean Sanford attributes the rapid
advancement in the South, both from
standpoint Of efficiency and higher
standards. to the Southern Conference.
which body virtually dominates college
athletics from the Mississippi River
east and from the Mason-Dixon Line
to the Gulf. The Southern Confer
ence, according to Dean Sanford, has
brought all institutions into close rela-
tionship and taught them all that
their interests are the same. 1t has
developed the one great idea that the
winning of a game Is not the main
aim of colleges, and has foStered a
friendly feeling among its membership
that has brought about new era OF
relationships.
Help Each Other.
1--WE all know" continued Dean San
ford, that athletics are much more
eficiently managed under well organ
lied administrations; we all know that
this has brought about stronger teams
and q remarkable growth in foot bail;
but one of the great things lost sight
of is the friendly spirit and cooperation
that has been developed AN the Dig
colleges in the South now are on
footing where they are ready and anx-
ious to help one another, and this has
accomplished much in the development
of better teams as we'll as in promoting
finer relationships. I know OF many
cases where universities have gene out
of their way, at considerable sacrince
and detriment to their own teams, to
help along other universities not so well
situated at the time. This has been es-
pecially true in the scheduling OF games.
when look back on athletics In the
South 10 or is years ago, then consider
conditions as they are now, have little
patience with any individual who tries
to produce an impression that our COL |
leges, as far as their athletics Is con- |
cerned, are going to the bowwowS From
the point of view of one who has been
a professor and administrator In uni |
verSity life for more years than some
times like to look back on, can tell
you that college athletics hold a valua-
BILE place in college life and provide
one the most wholesome outlet for stu
dent enthusiasts that has yet been de-
vised. With the complexities-and I
may say dangers-of modern campus
life, don't know what the UNIVERSE
ties would do without system Of ath-
letics around which to weave whole |
some student outlook and rational stu
dent action.
DIR. Sanford handspring.
What Dean Sanford does not say,
though, is that he has played the biggest
part in bringing about the changes IN
Southern athletics of which he speaks.
It was DR.. Sanford who in 1920 called
the meetings for representatives OF
southern colleges to form the Southern
Conference. It was he who, when 1t
seemed that reactionary forces were at
work to block his efforts for progress,
continued to call meeting after meeting
until more than year later, January /,
1922, the Southern Conference came
into being. The slogan Dean SANFORD
used as his reason for continued Ell
forts to form the conference was: I'VE
are not progressing, and it seems that
the only chance we have to move on and
effect real reforms in sports and advance
to the standards we desire Is to get To-
gether in a mutually helpful organiza-
ton and then ali of US do the things we
know we should do"
In speaking of the Georgia lacrosse
team and the possibilities Of lacrosse
in the South, Dean Sanford says:
"Our lacrosse team Is not particu-
larly strong We have two former Army
players coaching the team, and we are
making Roadway. Our team this year Is
the best we have ever had, and In an
other year or two we expect to be as
good as the better college twelves. A
great handicap we labor under is the
matter of competition, Georgia Tech
and Camp Benning having the only
other teams in the far South. like Ia
crosse, especially as it Is a game which
offers many who otherwise might not
get a chance opportunities to play.
should like to see it developed in the
South on a wide scale, as believe it
would add a good deal to Our Spring
sports program"
The University of Maryland has the
week end on local fields to itself. The
Old Liners this afternoon hook up with
Virginia Polytechnic Institute in base
ball and tomorrow meets the Georgia
lacrosse twelve. The track team tomor-
row entertains Virginia Military Insti-
tude in dual meet. The ball game to-
day begins at o'clock, the track meet
tomorrow at o'clock and the lacrosse
game at 4.
The Georgia squad came in this
morning and went Immediately to Col
lege Park, where 1t is to work out this
afternoon. The Virginia Military Insti-
tute trackmen do not get here until this
evening.
The Naval Academy tomorrow after
noon will dedicat2 its new boat house,
recently completed at a cost of some
where near $500 900. The dedication is
to be celebrated with full afternoon
of events. Between IL o'clock and /,
many invited guests are to be enter
tanned at a buffet luncheon at the ofi-
GERS club. At 1 o'clock the dedication
exercises proper are to take place, and
after that series of athletic events are
to be held Featuring the events will
be the boat races, in which crews from
Columbia and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology oppose the Midshipmen.
Five crews are to represent Columbia
and three Massachusetts Teen. Otner
feature competitions will be the dual
track and field meet with Virginia and
the base ball game with Lehigh.