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 Clubhouse, which
is now in process of erection. 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 ten 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 is 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.
