Bingham Bulletin | 1928-11-01 | Page 2 | Sportsmanship Lacking in Football of Today

Sportsmanship Lacking in Football of Today Football has become a heartless, machinelike ma-chinelike thin at the sacrifice of sportsmunshlp uuder the Influence of the present age of efliclency, in the opinion of Dr. John W. Wllce, director direc-tor of football at Ohio State university. univer-sity. "We're getting farther away every day from the old school that recognized recog-nized sportsmanship In the game and getting nearer to that new school which demands etlleleney and a winning win-ning team at all costs," Doctor Wllce suid before the Columbus Chamber of Commerce forum recently. In recent years. Doc-tor Wllce said, there hud been a tendency to strengthen strength-en schedules at OlWo state, due to a demand for financial Independence. From the standpoint of good footbull. this change should never have been made, he asserted.