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REPORT OPPOSES PAID COACHES

Princeton President Wants More Responsibility for Players.

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President Hibben of Princeton has expressed the hope in his annual report that paid coaches in college athletics will soon disappear. He maintains that athletics are suffering from an over-organized system of coaching, and that he believes that more responsibility should be placed on team captains. "If undergraduates were released from unnatural domination of their sports by graduate coaches, intercollegiate sport would be liberated from the abnormal incubus of a superimposed system which tends to make puppets of the players. In order that men may be resourceful in time of emergency they must be schooled in the art of resourcefulness by some stimulation of their latent powers of ingenuity."

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