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.
