Show Esquire Says-Poor Football Better Than No Football Football and other competitive sports may suffer in shortage to the manpower American colleges and but even a suffering game is better than none at according to the Esquire sports poll findings of Cannon and Herb Asked why they thought foot-hall and other competitive sports were being dropped by many colleges and per cent laid the blame at the door of the manpower Their accompanying comment favored continuance of the game in spile of this the Esquire poll found schools with Navy and Marine personnel on their teams was discounted as a reason for the dropping of sports by percent of the Nearly three-quarters of those polled did not believe that antagonists of sports were using their emergency authority to drive competitive athletics from our collegiate The poll's second question which asked if they considered this dropping of sports unwise on the part of netted a per cent affirmative The reason given by those who said was that it will be difficult for the colleges who have dropped sports to start again after the It will take time and will involve many mistakes to reorganize defunct athletic Some added that athletically inclined students would not be likely to choose colleges that dropped sports with the The third question also drew a strong affirmative Asked if they considered the situation serious enough to warrant organizing to protect the continuance of percent said The voters suggested the formation of national and regional committees to perform these duties and urged the continuance of local such as alumni quarterback the American Legion and Jun Chamber of Question IV concerned the practice of the Navy and Mar in corps in letting then- engage in com whereas the army jh An overwhelming majority per cent voted the ar my should follow the lead of the other branches of the service and permit its personnel to join collegiate But the voting was hot in spite of tie Esquire Sports is strictly a secondary said a voice from the opposition in arguing that with the studies come Another suggested that it was futile to argue with the Army's decision since fighting the decision meant only injury to civilian morale arid bloodying of one's own noggin j against a stone j |