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Show Football Game Will Reveal Character of Star Players "Quarrel with athletic sport as we will," says I.e Baron Itussell Briggs of Harvard, "and regret as we must that In Institutions of learning It seems to turn relative values topsy-turvy, no recent re-cent observer of young men can deny that In some men's education In the development of their character it is a mighty force. "There are doubtless athletes who, when the excitement of their playing days Is over, betake themselves to Inferior In-ferior excitements and to not much else. There are "others who throughout through-out their lives are thankful for their Athletic training and practice which fitted them for emergencies and helped to niaiie them men. "Football supplies what President Eliot calls a 'new and effective motive mo-tive for resisling all sins which weaken weak-en or corrupt the body"; it appeals to ambition and to self-restraint; It gives to crude youth a task In which crude youth can attain finish and ski i I , can feel the power that comes of surmounting sur-mounting tremendous obstacles and of recognition for surmounting them. "As a student once observed, 'when ( a feller plays football, it doesn't take i long to find out what kind of a feller he Is.' " |