Profound Problem
Quite unexpectedly, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College offered a solution of the intercollegiate football "problem." Let only sophomores and juniors play on the varsity teams, he said; let each college have two varsity teams, so that each college could have "the big game" at home every year (idea first advanced by President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan); let the coaches be undergraduates, presumably seniors. President Hopkins did not believe that Dartmouth was in a position to bring about these extensive reforms singlehanded. He begged the...
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