Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — LEAGUE OF COLLEGE BOXERS [ARTICLE]

LEAGUE OF COLLEGE BOXERS

Project Considered Several Times in Past, But Never Went Beyond the Discussion Stage. With the revival of boxing at Harvard, eastern college sparrers are looking forward to the formation of an intercollegiate boxing league. The project has been considered several times in the past, but never went beyond the discussion stage. The faculties at the few institutions where glove competition is permitted frowned upon the plan, although the boxing coaches warmly advocated the proposition, and pointed out that the English universities —Oxford and Cambridge—sanctioned an annual meeting between the best boxers in all classes of the two universities and that although knockouts occasionally occurred the intervarsity sport was exceedingly popular among file students and apparently without bad effects.