Show r ACS MAKING FORWARD PASSES FORWARD PASSES t i t f As S this is the season when tho the thet schools and colleges are I v to work item noticed resume an I ion on the sporting page of a last I T t years paper pape seems peculiarly bT b. f apropos Th The item recounts the ther I r i Jf ct that for the fir first time in iii its f history one of the best known I t state universities 8 in il the Yest West suffered defeat r 8 an ignominious I Vt at the hands o of an agricultural j jT I r T I college football team This I defeat de- de feat when analyzed seems to i I If show something more than an an important important bit of f sport sporting ng news 1 With the tide of athletic supremacy supremacy su su- f pre acy turning in f favor vr of the I agricultural college it is opportune tune une to consider consider- its present student stu stu- stu-i stu 1 dent body and note the cha changes t 1 I few feu j I that have taken place A years ago the agricultural college j I was scoffed at by py farmers' farmers boys i iI ij i iThen j w I F Then farmers' farmers sons had ambit ambitions ambi ambi- t f n t t td to be lawyers or doctors d j I l x care careers rs which require the wearing wear wear- if ing illg of good clothes e even en though h. h i they are often problematical in iii ina ft 1 a a. a remunerative way Vay r Now the agricultural college ht is be becoming om ng more and more p pop pop- pI p- p r I ular Itis It is not only the farmers farmer's rs r k sun son wh who is isnow now registered as ns anI an I Ag HAg student but many strong 1 and aid id husky young men oi of the thet t towns o are are preparing th themselves es r for an aJ agricultural career career t In speaking of the defect defeat of the U team by the th the Ii j I i item says w r Y x The way the he I 8 pulled off th their ir I forward pa passes ses was a marvel to the hl thet t t rooters L. L The truth is that the the Ag g t student i is pulling off oft some marv mar mar- f v lous forward d passes in several p other oth r directions The present sphere of the agricultural college col col- l. lege student is well described y j by George Ade the Hoosier author author au au- tt thor and aud playwright in a story which vh ch appeared in in th the Country T Gentleman To 10 quote w. w These rhe e boys are not goi going g 10 head for the cities t to get desk jobs or lowly low low- rt ly starve star within the overcrowded battlements bat bat- tt of the h learned professions i They are going back to the farms to 1 raise more corn and wheat and oats I than rai raised ed before 1 per acre were ever i to feed fied the broad and bu buxom om ste steer r so 80 t as astop to top the market to live civilized civilize and useful and happy happ lives in in comfortable corn com homes surrounded by all the I conveniences and most mos of the ies l iSO So it is becoming ing plain that r the Ag student is IS no long longer r a u. as s joke That he is is appropriating t. t some f football championships is is r t l' l simply another evidence of the r fact fa-ct that th the cream of the youth Elf of the nation natio 1 is turning to agi agn- agn i- i culture horticulture dairying v. v and animal instead of ot an husbandry law lawor or medicine ine or oth other r pi profess of ess- ess i 1 r iOl ions S. S And tl the c change is a good o not t only for f r t the a t l joung 1 men H abut for the nation as well l fJ |