ATHLETICS FOR ALL

It is no wonder, in view of the elaborate apparatus and severe regimen of training required for modern college athletic competition, that participation in athletics is confined to those who have some chance of becoming first rank men in some one line. It is an evil incident to high specialization that the average man is ruled out. That it is an evil to have college athletics restricted to the few possibilities of winners any advocate of athletics as a wholesome phase of college activity will agree.

The recommendation of the I. A. A. A. A. seems therefore particularly timely. Group competition should encourage the lay student to "come out" as he does not now Further it ought to broaden the area of competition in as-much as the small colleges and the western colleges which have less chance under what might be called the capitalistic system of athletics will now have more of a reasonable prospect of the "placing". It is to be hoped that an effort will be made to bring in some of our western friends.

The system proposed coincides well with the track policy in force here. It is to be expected that such a policy will continue and if, as we believe, the principle underlying, group competition is valid the forthcoming events should both confirm out position and exert a wholesome influence over the college athletics in general.