THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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Piatt, Kutz,
Midgel, Foster,
Williamson, Hokelston,
Champlin.
Brown,
Coleman,
Kinzie.
PROF HOPKINS.
I adriide, Mussard, Jowent, Dobson,
I verger, Sherman, Hogt
ATHLETICS.
SEASON IN FOOT BALL.
At the end of the season, it is wise to take a glance backward to see what has really been accomplished, and what failures have been made. Many perhaps will be contented to accept the victories of the team as a sufficient return for the time and labor invested; but this should not be done. If the physical benefit of two dozen students out of five or six hundred, and the possible possession of a silk banner, are the only results, the sooner foot ball is replaced by something of wider use, the better.
The point that has been kept chiefly in view during the past season is the advantage to the University itself. This is best secured by the development of a spirit of loyalty that will make its possessors helpful to the institution. In this way we may obtain an athletic field, a gymnasium, in short precisely those things that are necessary to open the way for general athletic training for the whole student body. Victories help toward this end, but are not essential. If the game be well and honorably played, and not too frequently, the highest object is accomplished. The University is thus known; not as a school for prize fighters, but as a place where the physical training is of the best, and is yet made secondary to the moral and intellectual. A team sus-