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Title: The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide. The official rules book and record book of college football
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: National Collegiate Athletic Association. (from old catalog) American Intercollegiate Association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Football
Publisher: New York (etc.) National Collegiate Athletic Bureau (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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trying him.self to do the work, is a poor creature, and,so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage and not a help to thecountry, Moreover, remember that normally the prime object of politicallife should be to achieve results and not merely to issue manifestoes-save of course, where the issuance of such manifestoes helps to achievethe results. It is a very bad thing to be morally callous, for moralcallou.sness is disease. But inflammation of the conscience may bejust as unhealthy, so far as the public is concerned ; and if a mansconscience is always telling him to do something foolish he will dowell to mistrust its workings. In short, you college men, be doers rather than critics of the deedsthat others do. Stand stoutly for your ideals, but keep in mind thatthey can only be realized, even partially, by practical methods ofachievement. Remember always that this republic of ours is a veryreal democracy and that you can only win success by showing thatyou have the right stuff in you.
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SPALDINGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 13 REVIEW OF THE SEASON BY WALTER CAMP V^ M ussmssBsn tsol The Foot Ball season of 190C marked the reinstatement of FootBall in popular favor just as, twenty years ago, the introduction ofthe five-yard rule saved the sport for the collegian of to-day. In thosedays, as in 1905, the player himself was not dissatisfied with existingconditions; he still saw much in the sport that appealed to him.But the spectators had begun to clamor for something in the line ofplay that should be more visible in its progress and appeal moreto the laymans interest. As in that day, so in this, the publiceventually had its way and, what is still more evident, the player,once forced to change his tactics, has found a reward in a style ofgame that even he was obliged to confess before the season endedwas a less exhausting and better game in almost every way. Withthe opening of the play there came in a better spirit among thepiayers and a far better understanding. The effort

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