The University of Chicago won only two football games last season. So did North Carolina State College. Chicago was beaten six times, North Carolina State eight times. Because "the peculiar advantages of football [to a college] arise only from winning football," Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins concluded that he must either: 1) hire a winning team (against Big Ten rules), or 2) abolish football. Last December Dr. Hutchins and his trustees abolished football at Chicago.
Last week North Carolina Staters decided to try a different system. An ardent alumnus named D. W. ("Dutch") Seifert and 17 other alumni (including the college dean,...
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