The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . such courage. They are good also, because theyencourage a true democratic spirit; for in the athletic field the manmust be judged, not with reference to outside and accidental attri-butes, but to that combination of bodily vigor and moral quality whichgo to make up prowess. Sport Not an End in Life. I trust 1 need not add that in defending athletics I would not forone moment be understood as excusing that perversion of athleticswhich would make it the end of life in
The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . such courage. They are good also, because theyencourage a true democratic spirit; for in the athletic field the manmust be judged, not with reference to outside and accidental attri-butes, but to that combination of bodily vigor and moral quality whichgo to make up prowess. Sport Not an End in Life. I trust 1 need not add that in defending athletics I would not forone moment be understood as excusing that perversion of athleticswhich would make it the end of life instead of merely a means inlife. It is first-class, healthful play, and is useful as such. Butplay Is not business, and it is a very poor business indeed for acollege man to learn nothing but sport. Play while you play and work while you work, and though play isa mighty good thing, remember that you had better never play at allthan to get into a condition of mind where you regard play as theserious business of life, or where you permit it to hamper and inter-fere with your doing your full duty in the real work of the SPALDIXGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 11 Scorn for Over-Refined all, you college men, remember that if your education, thepleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too .sensitive to takepart in the rough hurlyburly of the actual work of the world, if youbecome so over-cultivated, so over-refined, that you cannot do the hardwork of practical politics, then you had better never have beeneducated at all. The weakling and the coward are out of place in astrong and free community. In a republic like ours, the governingclass is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do thework of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious ortoo careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your rightto be considered one of the governing and you become one of thegoverned instead—one of the driven cattle of the political arena. Edu
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