Show LOVE OF OI THE GAMET GAME IE THE T HE typical American spirit as exemplified In the sports of the country is built more around the winning of the game than it is in playing it for the love of the game itself Your at cricket or tennis your Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian at lacrosse gets more exhilaration out of his sports than do Americans There is ismore Ismore Ismore more real sportsmanship developed when the game is played for the games game's sake The loser suffers less in defeat if he is the true sports sports- man The competitive spirit of of our great universities universities in bartering for this coach or that coach to produce winning teams is as much responsible responsible sible sibIe for this aspect of sports in the United States as all other factors combined The boy who is a sportsman when he enters college sports will probably remain a sportsman but it is to be doubted if the win to spirit will make a sportsman out of a boy who is not so by nature Professor William WiIIiam L. L Hughes of Teachers' Teachers college Columbia points the tIle way by which athletics can be made a great and an important im im- irn- irn part of a college educatIon When this comes about It will be because coaches coache have joined with all the social agencies of the school in lna a unified character building en- en en en- There is nothing essentially and inherently inherent inherent- ly ungentlemanly in the American character but it is not fostered by athletic training that has for its object only the winning of the game When the lists of the greatest athletes America has produced are scanned it is somewhat some some- somewhat what revealing to note that the greatest point winners on track field diamond and gridIron gridiron grid- grid gridIron Iron are not commonly the men who are on the top of the heap in the greatest enterprises enterprises enter enter- of the country |