Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — INDIANA NORMAL BARS FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NORMAL BARS FOOTBALL.

Muncie, Ind., Sept. 13. —The faculty of the Indiana Normal College, of this city, has caused a loud protest from the students by the following resolution: “Football has during the last deoade grown from an infant sport to an overgrown product of atheletics. It was introduced for the benefit of the student body, It was rough to begin with, but it has grown, under the olever coach and villainous player, to be little more than a scientific display of rowdyism. So strong and chronic has this phase of the game beoome that all colleges have considered the advisability of ousting the game, and some of the leading institutions of the country have condemned and forbidden it, Colombia University is the moat notable of these institutions, and in our own State the State Normal has decreed against the game. “In view of the above observations and our own beliefs in the matter, it is hereby resolved by the board of directors of Indiana Normal College that we shall not have football this fall. This resolution in no way hints at an antagonistic attitude toward athletics that free themselves of vulgar rowdyism or that tend to develop the manly and womanly qualities of students, We advise all our students to take gymnasium work and to participate in tennis, basketball and baseball/’