Show FIELD DAY SPORTS College athletics tare are iare coming to be recognized as almost an essential part of a college education The he interest shown by students fron fro the various institutions of Utah in the interstate field day sports in this city yesterday yes erday indicates to what extent this notion prevails in the intermountain west westA A sound mind should have a sound body It is not alwa always so blessed but butt I I it t ought to be for its own good and the good of the world The ancient Glee greeks believed d this Thay phy physical physic sic l culture almost a religion and their intellectual achievements ments In those crude ages proved the correctness of the theory The sacred games of of o Olympia were Instituted nearly seven centuries before the beginning b of the Christian era and an oath confirmed by sacrifice was im imposed Imposed posed on the athletes s before bethre they en entered entered entered the lists binding them to play playfair playfair j fair fall and to take no fraudulent advant advantage Wage age over other competitors Thie is ili not deemed necessary in intercollegiate games every participant being on his honor and actuated ly a spirit fair fairness ness and nd collage college pride do d his best and dp it t They Th l Hd grand nd in the con contests tests of old The exercises of today bear a striking similarity to those of the Olympian games but the extraordinary extraordInary extraordinary duration of the tournaments tournaments ments meats of olden timae tim finds no modern parallel For days a Dd and d weeks the rivals would struggle for fur the prizes of offered offered offered and the plaudits of th the assem assembled assembled bled multitudes At least a thousand years year before Christ Homer described the th snorts which took ok t place at the funeral o of They were almost identical with those mentioned later in records of the tIle Olympian and lath Isthmian Isthmian mian games ames mes and surprisingly similar to those of the present time University life has been influenced greatly in modern years by the grow Arrow growIng ow owIng ing Importance oc 0 athletics This is isa isa Isa a branch of education which not onh broadens and braces the mind but i il the manhood and woman womanhood womanhood womanhood hood of students If the curriculum affords the material of mental exer else dee athletics completes the school chool o of character In its pursuit the student learns to be active and vigilant in con to s of the am to stand Upon his hIg merits and play the stuns as 8 later on he has to play the game me of ot a success successful successful successful ful life lite Professionalism is ed nid nd should be barred from e college colleg games and sports snorts The spirit of gambling is dis discouraged discouraged discouraged as aa dem demoralising and d destructive destructive tive of the benefits of wholesome sport sper speras as a school of ot character It is only in relation to mental and moral de tie development development that university recognition of athletics finds its and th the themore themore more vigorously the physique is de tie developed developed the more sturdy will be th the mental and moral growth of th the student I J |