University of Nashville - Garnet and Blue Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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ef S Q N , ,, ATI-u.E'r1c s ll HIS is not a time for making a review of the year's athletics at this institution, for much, and perhaps the best, is yet to come. The purpose of this article is not so much to deal with patent facts as with underlying principles, motives, springs of growth, and sources of health and promise. No student in college who has given any attention to this phase of school life will express himself as dissatisfied with the progress made during the present school year, while those who have watched and those who know have just and sufficient cause for elation. Not that we have won every game, or rnacle a brilliant record any branch of athletics for this year. Such a state of affairs might have a superficial foundation and guarantee nothing for the future. Our attention has been given more to the soil than to the plant, and we do not need the prophet's eye to see the rich harvests in store for us. The present session has been essentially a formative period in college athletics. just as the Middle Ages served as a stepping stone from the ancient to modern civilization, just so will this session serve to link our glorious past with a changed but more glorious and substantial future. What are the proofs of this? Here are a few: More money has been given by stu- dents, more yelling has been done, more interest taken, more indomitable-spirit manifested, more leaders produced, more writing done, more playing done than ever before in the history of this institution. There has been more fellow-feeling between players and non-players than ever before. College athletics is alive from beginning to end of the session-more men participate, a sustained interest is maintained. The classes, every one, are moved by this spirit of renaissance, and all are ready, even the quiet Seniors, to clash and struggle for su- premacy on the field. Kickers and cold-blooded detractors have passed away. Whenever we discovered a need for anything we set about to procure it. Thus our field is now inclosed by canvass, a thing which has been sadly lacking for many years. New suits for both football and baseball teams have been purchased. These and many other things have been done by the students with a vim and determination that presage much for coming seasons. But the greatest of all is the plan of the Student Committee, enthusiastically adopted by the student body, to put the financial phase of athletics on a firm and lasting basis by pledging every student to pay three dollars a year for athletics as part of his incidental fee. The good of such a plan as this is incalculable, and the hearty way in which the students entered into the scheme would refiect credit upon any college. Thus, with our feet firmly planted, we stand in order and face the future with confidence. There is now no grieving over spilt milk, but a consciousness of youthful vigor, knowledge of correct, primary preparation, and feeling of readiness for what may come. If there have been hitherto some objectionable features in athletics at our school, we may now with assurance expect their early disapperanceg for sores cannot fiourish when the blood is pure. With all of us behind the movement, our representatives will be more truly repre- sentative, and must consequently be worthy. The time has passed when the player feels that he is only playing for himself, and so with the time when the students feel that they are not defeated when their team is defeated. This close interrelation between students in gen- eral and the players on the teams is the only condition under which college athletics should exist. We have been striving toward this for years, but at no time could we claim to have attained it with so much confidence as at present. A very great share of the honor of im- proving athletics belongs to the college co-eds. They have been loyal, consistent, enthusi- astic supporters at all times, and to them we must take off our hats and bow. To them, above all, belongs the praise.