Download or read book College Athletics (Classic Reprint) written by Michael C. Murphy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from College Athletics College athletics are now recognized as a very important part of the life of the college man. Around the sport of the university cluster many of its most cherished traditions, and it is in some ways the very life and soul-oi the esprit de corps or college spirit so much talked about. In fact, the sport of a college re ceives more than its share of attention, and the general public is apt to forget that behind all this strenuousness and this on thusiasm, there is a background of hard study and earnest en deavor that but rarely comes to the surface and which passes unnoticed. The very great attention given to college sport has not been wholly salutary, but, in general, it has resulted in great good by drawing attention to the various sports and by retaining he interest of the students in athletics. The life of the college student is sedentary in character, and on that very account the heads of our universities are right in encouraging college sport along all lines. Some evils have crept in, but the great good and the many benefits to the student body much more than over balance these. The modern college student needs the exercise, and those who do not come out for the teams use the energy and time encouraging their representatives, which formerly they'spent in drinking and other forms of dissipation. No matter how we feel toward sport, it is a fact that college athletics play a great role in undergraduate life and must be taken into account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.