A year ago last fall, a group of undergraduates started a move for the initiation at Princeton of 150-pound football as a regular sport, with other colleges, prep schools and class teams as possible opponents. However, after a brief period of vigorous agitation, the idea was apparently forgotten for the time being. A short while later both Yale and Harvard adopted the game. With their example as an incentive, agitation was renewed here last fall only to die out again when no official action seemed forthcoming. . . .
Undoubtedly the establishment of the sport here would open the game to the man whose lightness now virtually precludes his participation. In all other sports in which the weight of the competitors is of particular importance, provision is made for separate events based on weight classification. If similar action were taken in the case of football, there is every reason to believe that the 150-pound sport would be received with the same enthusiasm as has been evidenced at Yale and Harvard....
It must be admitted, of course, that certain difficulties would be encountered, such as that of procuring a coach and adequate equipment. Nevertheless, it seems that the instituting of the sport here would attract a sufficiently large number of men to the athletic fields to make such action eminently worth while. --Daily Princetonian.
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