d.

True some boys on the team do not train and some boys in
school will try to get by. But athletics should not be blamed for

these indiscretions, for without a doubt that erring boy has been carried
along by his love of play a great deal farther than he would have gone
had he no play life. However there are some phases of athletic adminis-
trative shortcomings that should be corrected.

The game of football today is killing too many of our high
school football players. To say that the boys killed are not in the
proper physical condition is not enough. Our boys of today are not of
the tough fiber as were the sons of real pioneer parents two genera-
tions ago. The game should be modified not abolished. I am strong for
football and the lessons that it teaches but we must seriously consider
its revision and modification. When Theodore Roosevelt fought for the
game's retention he did a great service. Tougher fibered men played
the game then than-se now.

If Mussolini had the power to call all of the Italian boys
in America to Italy's colors, it would practically wreck a lot of tough
American college football teams of today. Why then are so many boys of

foreign born parents playing football in American colleges today?

Because they are the so-called poor boys = without the