Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1913 — Basket Ball Violent Sport? [ARTICLE]

Basket Ball Violent Sport?

The athletic council at Sage college baa decreed that the women students at Cornell cannot play basket ball with other colleges. Dr. Eatber Parker, the woman's medical adviser, said that the nervous strain Is too great Basket ball Is the most violent form of exercise, next to rowing, In the girls’ college, she says, and she |will permit the game between local classes only.