Professionalism among the colleges of New York State has taken on a queer aspect. Several college-Cornell, Hobart, Rochester, Hamilton and Union, have formed an association and are now playing for the champion ship, and it appears that all except Cornell, if we are informed correctly, have regular professional players on their nines. It may be because we are bigoted on the subject of professionalism, but we confess that we are unable to see what possible right a nine, composed partially of professional players, has to play for a college championship any more than a league nine, under the name of some particular college, would have. Such games are no more college games than the league games are. It seems strange that it is allowed, for such procedure is manifestly unfair.
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