Varied Topics at Chapel
(Continued from first page)
and that as a consequence the students
were faced with a defecit in the treas
ury of the athletic association of twen-
two'huudred dollars. The president
said that appeals would be sent to the
alurnni for help.and that the faculty
would help, but in the end the matter
must rest with the students. Dr.Ven-
able concluded his talk by saying thai
athletics at the University would be
doomed if this crisis is not met by ; the
University students. Frank Graham
then spoke for a few minutes. In a
clear forcible talk he showed what the
duty of the student in this matter is.
"It is a question, "he said"tliat affects
the honor of the University. It is
a crisis that must be met by Carolina
spirit and loyalty".
The week's exercises were closed Fri-
dav morninsr bv a repetition of the
song- service of a week ago
Material for Editors
The following- clipping-s are editorials
taken from the Charotte "Daily Obser
er " and The Richmomd "Times
Despatch". We publish them to show
how the football stir is being-looked at.
Halfback Christian's Death
The Observer adds its voice to the
expressions of deep , regret at the ac
cident which cost a University of Vir
ginia football player's life in Wash
ington. '."Naturally,' 'and properly the
University of Virginia cancels the re
mainder of its games for this season.
The University of North Carolina,
notwithstanding some expectations
awkwardly disappointed acquiesce in
the cancellation of the Thanksgiving
Day game at Richmond quite un
grudgingly.
This season has witnessed several
fatal accidents occurring under such
special circumstances of conspicuous'
ness as may well lead the people who
temperamentally dislike football to
hope for its destruction. They can say
that the revised rules have not pre
vented accidents; they might say, also,
that no rules can ever pevent occa:
sional accidents in any hard', manly,
man-making game. Because, firsMt
is inevitabley conspicuous and, second,
because opponents of the game cry
out, a football accident attracts at
least twenty times as much attention
as an accident of any other sport.
Incidentally we may state our - im
pression that no permanently disab
ling or fatal accident has ever befallen
a player of the "Big Six" Eastern col
leges and that football has been play
ed by North Carolina colleges and
schools since 1888 with no perma
nently disabling or fatal injury in
any game.
Reforming Football
The death of another Richmond boy
as the result of injuries received at
football augments in the most melan
choly way the rapidly growing belief
that this game is all wrong as it is
now played. Clearly the loss of two
lives in this city1 on successive days
is out of all proportion to whatever
benefits our youg men may derive
from the game. y ; s : , ;
.' That there will be strong-opposition
to any movement toward revising the
present rules, the statements from col
lege presidents and athletic leaders
printed in The Times-Dispatch yes
terday make plain. This opposition
will be troublesome to meet and over
come. ' Some colleges are' excedingly
reluctant to let go of football, or even
to touch it in any way, for the strictly
selfish reason-that they see in it the
strongest advertising card they have.
One of the authorities quoted yester
day declares that the killing of two
young men on prominent teams with
in two weeks is simply an unfortu
nate "coincidence". In a sense this
use of words is sound. Yet it would
be equally sound if there had ; been
ten deaths instead of two. When un
fortunate coincidence shows signs of U'
becoming unfortunate habit it is time I
to cry halt. One college head observes, I
almost petulantly, that any parent
who does hot believe in ; football can
keep his son from playing by making
his wishes known to the oresident.
This is a virtual abdication of the
college authority. If football is a su
perfluously dangerous game as is now
plain, the institutions which foster it
cannot possibly evade their responsi
bility. Boys who are. sent to college
are entrusted to the discipline if the
college. The colleges are supposed to
know how to use their trust. They
have no more right to encourage their
students to endanger their bodies than
to endanger their minds or their
morals.
It is not right to leave the reforma
tion of football to individual young j
men or individual parents. It Is not
right to leave it to individual colleges,
or even individual States. No . young
man wants to takes a position which
will make his fellows think that' he is
a weakling or wanting in nerve. No
the sunny old plantation. The lyrics
of John Charles McNeill are too well
known and admired for us to attempt
any eulogy of them here but we must
say that nowhere can the happy days
of the southern boy raised on the old
farm homestead be so sweetly sung;
of the poems
Just to read one or two
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carries one back by magic to the hap
py days of Southern life. This Uttlj
book will sweeten many, many hours
with the sweet memories which it calls
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college of young men wants other
colleges of young men to look npou
it as a sissv institution. It is oer-
f ectly natural that they should all
want to be free of the company of
sportsmen of their little world,to be
a part of the great freemasonry of
athletics. Reform, to be local and
amount to anything, must be national
in scope. It must be brought about
by the rules committee of the Inter
collegiate Athletic Association. And
unless it is so brought about; that body
cannot hold itself free from respon
sibility for future tragedies occurring
in the name of sport.
The Times-Despatch yields to no
body in admiration of the many good
points in football, a game which it
has long befriended and defended; But
to say that this game is necessary, in
its present costly form, to develop or
maintain manly qualities in our young
men is simply to be absurd. ' The Eng
lish Rugby game, which kills nobody,
is a very fine game.absorbing to both
players and spectators. The Duke of
Wellington's statement that the battle
of Waterloo was won on the football
fields of Rugby and Eton was not a
joke. Nor has anybody ever said with
in our hearing that the English people
as a whole are wanting in manly
qualities, in courage and complete
physical efficiency.
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