Show COLUMBIA PAPER i WANTS FOOTBAll Lack of Big Men Due to Absence Absence Absence Ab Ab- Ab- Ab sence of Gridiron GridironS S Training New ew York Dec 13 The The football bogey boge bas lias turned u up at Columbia again this year ear an and the thc annual demand for the re-esta re establishment re-establishment of ot the game g-ame has been Issued b by the tho Spectator This time the lack of or football Is blamed ne for the poor material that has haa been reporting reporting- to tho the coaches of or Co Co- Co- Co lumbia's teams and a n. recent graduate who has voiced 1 the thc complaint sees no hope until football I is restored Without Without With With- out football big men cannot b be expected expected cx- cx ex ex- d to come to Columbia and it Is big big- men who wiio arc are needed to support ever every form torm of ot athletics athletic Apparently the percentage of or big men at Columbia toda today says sas the Spec Spec- Is small and we trace this condition directly to the abolition of ot football It can hard hardly be expected that powerful athletes who give prom prom- Iso ise of ot successful college athletic careers will wm waste waste from their theil point of ot view their four tour best years ears at an institution where there thore Is no football team to make Coaches captains and managers may make their complaints and Issue their calls for tor big men year in and year out but It will only onh be so BO much energy wast wasted d. d The abolition of football at Columbia ma may or ma may not bo considered beneficial but one thing Is certain certain It It will hardly serve ser us an incentive to big men to enter an and try for our teams teams- those thole big men we apparently need so 50 badly Strange to sa say It has been discovered ered erod that after football was abolished tho the average weight eight of ot Columbia's varsity crows crews Increased and the crews o ha avo been heavier than In tho the period when football was played until last spring when the average crage slightly fell |