If any member of a University team breaks training physically, he is looked upon with contempt and disgust by his team-mates, the coaches and by the undergraduates as a whole. This is as it should be, for the athlete in question has deliberately done his best to demoralize his team and lessen its chances of success. He has shown himself unfit for any position in which he is entrusted with the success of other men.

To break training mentally--that is, to be put on probation--in no way differs from breaking training physically. The effect upon a team is the same, and except in very rare instances the one is as willful an act as the other. The man who is barred from competition by the College Office is as contemptible as the man who is expelled from the squad by the coaches. The mental responsibility of an "H" man is as great as the physical and a betrayal of either deserves the same condemnation.