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appointed to consider this matter
and bring in recommendations at
the next meeting of the Committee.
It was also agreed that the sen
ior representatives on the Commit
tee take up with the Captains of
the companies in their respective bat
talions the matter of assisting and
encouraging the freshmen in their
organizations to study more con
sistently.
7. -The attention of the Commit
tee was called to the fact that no
monitor was provided for the laun
dry of the casuals and the Chair
man was requested to bring this to
the attention of the proper authori
ties.
FOOTBALL IN THE ’90’s.
It’s bursting no bombshell of a
new thought to make the comment
that football should be added to the
list of growing American infant in
dustries.
Perhaps it’s a fine thing that
football has become a sure source of
hard cash revenue to American col
leges. Rolling swards of athletic
fields and mammoth athletic sta
diums throw into pitiful contrast the
old weed bordered athletic fields and
the modest frame grandstand and
bleachers of as short a while as
fifteen years ago, and are a crush
ing answer to the sentimentalizing
old grad who moans for the college
days that were.
Try and get a ticket at the last
minute to any big football game, to
day. The seats are all filled by those
whose college experience is limited
to bawling “The Sweetheart of Sig
ma Chi” in tune with some night
club orchestra. Maybe they are de
tracting from the pure collegiate at
mosphere of football games but they
are building stadiums and lifting
college debts.
And as short a while as ten years
ago colleges made sure of full stu
dent support of athletics by adding
the cost of a season athletic ticket
to the matriculation fee. Now foot
ball tickets have gone into the hands
of scalpers and are as hard to se
cure as those for a fashionable “first
night.”
Stanford University paints an il
luminating picture of the progress
made by this new business of foot
ball—and you can draw your own
moral. In 1894 the football deficit
was such a burning issue that it
precipitated a bitter political bat
tle in the university. That was
when Herbert Hoover*, who is now
candidate for the presidency of the
United States, was a senior in engi
neering. He won the election as
treasurer of the student body be
cause he promised to make football
pay its own bills.
When he took office he inherit
ed a deficit of $1,500 piled up against
the Stanford football team during
the season of 1893. That was when
Walter Camp was coach, too. Hoover
closed his administration with glory
and honor because he left $3,500 in
the bank to the credit of the Stan
ford Athletic Association. As a mas
ter financial stroke for Stanford
Hoover closed a deal with Alonzo
Stagg, coach for the University of
Chicago, for a post season game in
1894 on a $1,000 guarantee or sev
enty per cent of the gate, a hand
ful of dimes according to present
day standards but a lot of money
then and a record breaking crowd of
4,500 made both teams happy and
gave Stanford a cool profit of$500.
VISITOR FROM CENTENARY
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
Eldorado, Arkansas,
October 15, 1928.
President and Head Coach,
Texas A. and M. College,
College Station, Texas.
Dear Sirs:—
As a member of the body of root
ers who went down on the “Centen
ary Special from Shreveport, please
allow me the privilege of compli
menting and thanking you and the
student body for the unexcelled
sportsmanship and courtesies shown
us before, during and after the
game.
I have seen many football games
in my time, being an alumnus of
Alabama where Football has al
ways been popular, but never have
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Such popii/aritif must
be deservedr
Down deep in the Kongo the native sons
believe that anybody who has an explorer for
dinner will absorb all the brains, courage
and other success-assuring virtues of the unfor
tunate victim.
W e wish we could say the same of Chesterfields
—that all their popularity is conferred upon
whosoever smokes them. Frankly, however,
this is not invariably true. Several Chesterfield
smokers have recently been discovered who
are not ambassadors, steel kings, or even bank
presidents.
But—since Chesterfields are so satisfying, mild
and different—we’ll all of us continue to enjoy
them for these sound smoke-virtues alone.
Popularity? Six million smokers are enjoying
’em today. Such popularity tnust be deserved.
Make it six million and one?
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