SPORT IN AMERICA
COMPETITIVE TENDENCY DEVELOPING BETTER SPIRIT
There is a growing opinion in American colleges that their sport has become too competitive, said Professor F. . Hart, an American authority on education, who arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. There was now a move toward the development of a spirit of true sportsmanship. Professor Hart said leading physical directors were emphasising sportsmanship iu games such as tennis, handball and golf, which would be continued in the adult life of students. The troublo with American football was that a player ended his career on the last day he played for his school. A game of Australian football lie saw in Melbourne exhibited more truly the sporting spirit, and was far less hazardous than American football, which obliged players to enter the game more like prehistoric monsters than footballers. Ibe eonimcicial instinct had entered college lootball in the United States, he added.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22774, 7 July 1937, Page 15
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