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Show WOULD KILL ATHLETICS TO FAVOR THE WEAK "Football in tho secondary schools is played by boys from 15 to .10 yearn of age boys who have not yet attained full age and development. The game In Itself It-self Is exciting and abounds In opportunities opportu-nities for good team work. In many wnyfi h. great mental acumen ran bo developed de-veloped by the training that Is given by this game. lint I believe that the bone-fit bone-fit derived is morn than counter-balanced by the risk of physical Injury, and this Is tho almost unanimous verdict of physicians phy-sicians with whom I have talked concerning con-cerning tills branch of athletics. "Tho long-distance runs I mupjallled-ly mupjallled-ly condemn for boys of high school age. The long and gruelling contest Js a painful pain-ful tax on the heart and lungH. and cases havo several times como under my own observation where boys, competing In the distance runs, havo. ns a result become Incurably afflicted with heart trouble." Mr, Fee advocated a system of athletics ath-letics which will place weak and strong boys alike in (raining, thus making it Impossible to forget the weaklings for the sturdy youths. Basketball and handball hand-ball he regarded as the ideal sports. |