Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Official Handbook of the Academic Athletic League of California, 1910
We think that the circle of friends of clean athletics to - day is not only wide, but widening. From earliest times, thoughtful men have seen the interacting influence of mind upon matter, of body upon brain. Hence, they have long advocated the cultiva tion of the sound mind in the healthy frame.
But, with the more recent rise and remarkable growth of crowded urban communities, in which the boy can no longer gain the muscular development that comes from performing the daily chores on the farm, and in which he is restrained from playing the old-fashioned games in the same old way, because the village green has given way to the paved thoroughfare, many new and vexatious problems in the sane regulation of athletics for the city youth have pressed forward for solution. It is equally true that even the problems that arise from the condi tions surrounding wholesome athletic activity in those parts out side the great cities, now appertain to organized groups, not, as formerly, to dissevered units. Hence, the wise solution of such grave matters would in itself be sufficient justification for the continued existence of such a body as the Academic Athletic League.
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