College Athletics During War Time
I  , I w hat  th  atItitude  ni  1, _ll I houl [d  lc toward  intecit l-
leg_ iutec athlIetic Jurno, war tim, -eemed to bec an open question
o the beginning of thear, and man\ colleges in their patriotic
-d took ahact ction cancelilinga cheduleus Wisconin, anxiouS
1, 'l-i it-patioto-1,eanelled it haschlall and track bchedules,
it whun Pireident Wilson expri-sed himself in such poitive tern in
lavor of athletics, the faculties of the tarious colleges reorganired their
viewand te nov have definitul determined that athletic -hall go on
during the  it, although wei must laor under aidere condition, which
arc, of coure,c inevitabtle
he spirit that makes a man an athlete makes him repond to the first
call of hi- countr for the grim task of war No department of the Lni-
versit hat felt thiear o kuenl a, has the Athtetic Dlupartmunt, but
to us aio comes perhap the greate t glore from the LImber if our
ithletes tho are nor in the thick of the fight  \\ iconin mav feel
ju-tl proud of her athlete, who arwearing the khaki with the  air
Itirit that theV oice woire the cairdinal jer, and Iho are using the
tined mu-cs and alert brains th t once broughtglor to their Alma
Miater. for the honor and glort of their countr. SixtN-,ix men from
our four maoir -sprts are now enliitcd in the fighting fre- of the
t intted State  [henivrttv tht given truev of its h-t mien and the
Varsit tlms hatvebeen built frtm new mat-al, pricticallk all the
experienced intn being in the ervice. It remain for thoet ho are left
to tike upon tlimelve the task of carrying on the othictic program
;lnd uilhtlitg the reutatIton of the chool It is imiportant that ever
itt.an giv hi> bc-t to his chool and in this want prepare him elf for the
harihipof militnrv life Noman ha ta right to bea no ic inathletics
or tnqualified for militar serttic.
Thi- nnr is going to boo  athlItics, oth intercollegiiate and intra-
mural \hn it is tier I think tte shall -ee comitfptul-s-or tthltic- in
our colleges.  Ihere  is  mre  eneral participation  in  athletics iII our
country toda than er hefoire.  e should keep up our college
athletic acttitics, looking  to  the  future, Jeveloping imen  eith  nerve.
derninatton and sel reliaince for national eLefen-t, and hen th ar
H"      - t1 iiif  hai   t inui  il  tie  tginn i f  tilllt e  lti]
rU>t      re-  Uniti  ft1it6  t  UInt

Page 154