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Show Coach Explains Greater Interest in All Sports College athletes are not overemphasized, overempha-sized, but the present nation-wide interest in-terest In sports in largely due to the economic growth of the country during the past 25 years, says Capt L. M. Jones, football coach at the United States Military academy. "During the past 25 years," he ald, "the student nnd alumni bodies of the various colleges and universities of the country have grown enormously and i the logical result Is that Interest In the affairs of these Institutions has also grown." Better roads and the abundance ot money, also the Increase In the number num-ber of automobiles, have a bearing on the attention given to athletics, in his nnlnlnn. |