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Show Coach Explains Greater Interest in All Sports College athletes are not overemphasized, overempha-sized, but the present nation-wide Interest In-terest In sports is largely dm! (o the economic growth of the country during the past 25 yearn, says ('apt. L. M. Jones, football coach at the United Stales Military academy. "Mining the past 25 years," he said, "tin! student and alumni bodies of the various colleges ami universities of the country have grown enormously and the logical result Is that Interest In the affairs of these Inst It ul Ions has also grown." Belter roads and the abundance of money, also (he Increase In the number num-ber of aulomoblles, have a bearing on the! attention given to athletics, In hU jwtln loll. |