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Upon learning that his undergraduates had been invited to play a game of football with the University of Michigan, President Andrew D. White of Cornell snapped: "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit...
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