Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — FOR AND AGAINST FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

FOR AND AGAINST FOOTBALL.

Harvard Banishes, While Yale Defemls the Gnrae. Close on the heels of Harvard's decision to banish football as played at present her traditional athletic rival, Yale, has come out in defense of the gaine. President Hadley, at the recent dinner of the New York alumni, said that football was bound to be played, if properly modified, npd FhnT, ntnong all major sports it has for the student “the double advantage of being the most democratic and the least dangerous. Played by rich and poor alike, it claims fewer victims than the sports whose successful pursuit is confined to the rich alone.” He referred to frequent deaths from hunting and sailing, but said that during the thirty years that Yale had played Rugby football no death or permanent injury had resulted to a Yale map. President Faunce says that the faculty at Brown is wrestling with the subject, but that he fears that the public has become hysterical over it, and that the sins of all sport will be loaded on to football. After all, he thinks the physical danger is of”far less inqiortanee than the social and ethical side of the game. At Chicago the representatives of the “big nine” \vestern colleges have decided upon many radical changes for football and other college athletics, with the purpose of curbing professionalism. It was agreed that, unless football were modified ao as to prevent brutality by the rules committee, the “big nine” would discontinue the game for two years. It was decided that in future the college faculties should have charge of the gate receipt's. One rule proposed would bar all graduate students from the matches. A player must have as many recitations during the football season as at any other time of the year. The students shall have nothing to do with the securing of coaches, and the coach m mt ‘fe a member of the faculty. The committee would limit the number of intercollegiate games in a season to five and limit the admission fees to GO rents.