Bingham News | 1926-10-09 | Page 2 | Wholesome Influence of Athletics is Big Need

Wholesome Influence of Athletics Is Big Need Opponents of ' interschoiastlc athletics ath-letics get little sympathy from Fielding Field-ing H. Yost, director of athletics at the University of Michigan. When asked recently of the relation of athletics to high schools, Yost said the couutry needed the wholesome influence in-fluence of sports to keep civilization from slipping. "Athletics In high schools," he said, "teach participants the lessons of endurance, en-durance, skill,' self sacrifice and the necessity for constant work In order to excel. j "Athletici tench the student body lessons in loyalty to their group and when all are imbued with thorough good sportsmanship, this loyalty Is as dear In defeut as In victory.. . "In these days, when every stratum of society Is pervaded by gross ma-, teriuli.su) and Immorality, we need such vhoIcsome Inlluences as ath letics to keep civilization from slipping slip-ping behind."