CONNECTICUT SCHOOLS FIGHT OVER-EMPHASIS

Sweeping and drastic action by the athletic heads of Choate, Loomis and Taft Schools, curbing rigidly the athletic policies of the schools, indicates that the feeling against over-emphasis of sports is spreading from the colleges to the preparatory schools of the country. Prompted by the conviction that athletics were playing too large a part in the life of the average student, to the detriment of other more vital interests, the authorities have curtailed schedules, regulated the conduct of individuals in athletic events, and restricted membership on teams.

The restrictive provisions adopted by the three schools follow:

1. Prohibiting coaching during the progress of games.

2. Making no substitutions, except when the physical directors of the schools decide that an athlete should retire.

3. Allowing the captains and team members to run the competition in every sports, once play is started.

4. Prohibiting fall practice in foot ball until the fall term opens.

5. Preventing membership on more than two athletic teams and making it impossible, for a student to return to one team, once he has changed to another.

6. Prohibiting a student from taking part in more than three events in a track meeting.

7. Cutting down the baseball schedule to nine games, cutting the football, hockey and tennis schedule to six games.