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longest total playing time that any player was in eetion in the game was 12 minutes,
34 seconds.

So it is not altogether a mtter of perfect thysical conéition in playing
football. Rather, it is the ability of these rugzed men to withstand injuries and
force.

Reform waves arc still szitntine the dmegors of foxtbll to the youth of
america. Thirty-five years 2go when intercollegiate football was on trinl because
of physical dangers to the particinents, the late Theodore Roosevelt, ex-Presidcent
of the United States, saved the game for the good that he thouzht it possessed.
Only recently footbell was attacked by Willian Allen White. And so it goes, back
and forth.

Impetus was aiven to the play clement in education by the return of the
Acericm expeditionsry forces after the Yorld War. In the army, every Americsn
soldier learned to play som game. When the war enced many of these men filtered
back into their college halls with an increased interest in play. With this new
situation before them, educntors faced = new buildine program. Drab, unsafe
wooden bleachers thet had served their uséfulness before the wer, cteve wsy to ver-
monent buildings of stone and concrete.

When the turnstiles click for the huce crowd et the footbell sames, there
arises a cry of commercialism. But the carninzs from the 2thletic gate receipts
are being used to liquidate the indebtedness ecoinst these new athletic stacia.
Most of them are heavily morteaged and will be for several years. fn most of then
there is not one penny of the taxpayers’ moncy, yet the stadiun is used for bac-
calaureate services and commencerent exercises =n< other acaderic entherings, with
no expense to the stste. After all, it is how the geste receipts are expended that
determines the commercislism status.

 

 

"Tr all kinds of hurmn action the end swallovs the meens; the color runs; the
two things, the purpose ane the motions mde in serving it, cannot bo kept apart.
So important do we decom the satisfaction of -chievenent that the .etivity «hich
brings results for us brings its om reward." |

Georre Berard Shiv recently said, "We study history to learn that history does
not teach us." Many of our football psrtisans rho sit in the zrent stadi=, 2s they
hnve today, will perhens feel thet this ase shoul’ be calle@ “The Strdium Ace"; yet
the first great stadium 2ge began nearly 1900 years 2g. T:¢ Coliseum :t Rome
seated 80,000 peonle, and was the scene of specteculnar exhibitions, the ettraction,
however, being somewhot different that we witness at a ecolleee footbell game today.
However, it is significant to note that these early Grecisn snd Roman zemes pre-
eeded the Goléen Ave.

In America thore has been a esreat upsurge in attendsnce at all of our collee
sames. With the repression following the ‘cpvression there hes been = curtailment
of expenditures on sll things except entertainment. The attendance at sporting
events still continucs to hit e new hich. It seems people srend money for entertein-
ment when they will not spend it for food an* the necessities of life.

Tf our athletic cares revert to the Romen «rs, then history will not hive
aucht us a lesson, but if we follow our contests in the spirit of the Crecian games
in which all the arts were fostered for the slory of beauty end crace, then athletic