Show Student Life 15 that the few must lible friendship will grow up represent the truest type of among these men a fraternal letic teams so American manhood Football i s unquestionably the king of college athletics This sport alone requires all the necessary qualities outlined A football player must possess determination iron determinaHe must have a steady tion set of nerves he must excell in speed strength quickness of movement and of eye He must be able to think instantly and Above all a footeffectively ball player must have perfect control of his temper and pos- ideals sess sportsmanship These qualifications are what must be obtained through football in colleges The sport fails when they are not When the player of a college eleven fails to learn loyalty his career in Then athletics is a failure football takes individuals of the highest ideals and works them into one homogeneous whole — the football machine The football men associate with men of clean body healthy minds and vigorous thoughts Association through a football season should be the greatest benefit to be derived from this major athletics A squad of healthy clean minded forcible robust men — as should compose a football squad — working together for the same ideal —to attain the highest possible degree of physical perfect- ion undoubtedly absorb mot excellent and worthy qualities possessed by each other while the weaker ones will forced out An infal the ill love that will cling throughout life Each individual is striving to get the best possible out of himself After the college days are over and the gridiron forgotten will not these football men take into life this determination this unconquerable mastery of self this complete control over mind and body and enter life with that same spirit of do or die that they learned on the football gridiron? Are these not the qualifications for American citizenship? But as is evident in athletics even in our own close proximity these excellent essentials to be obtained from our fall sport Athletics are not foremost have failed then when athletes justly termed “Tramp Athletes” are brought to any institution to so strengthen its athletic teams Success is placed above all other purposes when instead of looking to the results to be obtained by the individual through his association in athletics one looks to the results to be had on the score board then have athletics failed With hired men “ringers” and “Tramp Athletes” athletics football especially harms and the harm can never be undone It creates nothing more than a rowdyism and a passion for unfairsports-manshi- p among students of the institution which immediately loses its dignity and the respect of the public It is therefore evident that a freshman rule as the Utah Agricultural College abides by prevents any ‘ |