The University of Virginia record February 15, 1922 | ||
ATHLETICS.
The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, and includes two athletic
fields, Lambeth Field and Lefevre Field, as well as a driving park, set with
trees and hedges and containing the site for the proposed Athletic Club-house.
Two hundred thousand surface feet have been perfectly graded, drained and
fenced, for football, baseball, and track work. This surface was completed at
a cost of about fifty thousand dollars, and involved the removal of forty-eight
thousand cubic yards of earth. A concrete stadium has been erected, seating
eight thousand persons.
Games and sports of all kinds are under the special direction of the General
Athletic Association, a student organization whose object is to encourage this
phase of physical exercise. The faculty, by means of its Committee on Athletics,
exercises a general advisory control, endeavoring to foresee and avert
dangerous tendencies or excess in physical exercise, while giving to the students,
as far as possible, entire liberty of management. A strict supervision is maintained
over the character of intercollegiate games, and the number of these
which may be played away from the University is definitely limited.
The University of Virginia record February 15, 1922 | ||