Agitation for reform in college sports contains both wheat and chaff--and a considerable amount of each. Too much publicity is one charge. Football could do with less space; the other sports are better adjusted to the amount of interest in them. Football, and, to a lesser degree, other sports have been overreaching themselves along the line of intersectional contests. Here is an immediate source of needless expense and overexploitation. In the matter of dual contests, at an rate, there is plenty of competition, all that is needed for interest and health, in each college's own section without going half way or all the way across the country. For one or two annual meetings of a comprehensive nature for the colleges, well and good; the trend of football to games between colleges from 1,000 to 3,000 miles apart has done a great deal toward bringing football into undue prominence. It's one of the first practices the reformers should lop off. N. Y. Tribune.
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