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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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] .\i TS FOB FRESH MEN 59 Intercollegiate competition in athletics is maintained by the University of Illinois with all of the other universities of the Western Conference; namely, ChiIntercollegiate cago, Northwestern, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Athletics Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, and Ohio. Practice competition is engaged in to a limited extent with minor colleges near by. At Illinois teams are entered in football, baseball, track, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, cross country running, tennis, and golf. Freshmen may not compete in 'Varsity competition, and so in each line of sport a freshman squad is maintained. Competition for places upon the various teams is very keen, and only men of exceptional ability, who are willing to train consistently, and who can keep up with their scholarship, make the regular places. The squads are always large, however, and few men participate in more than one branch of sport, so that there is an opportunity for a relatively large number of men to get the benefits of the training. The best athletes of the teams have usually been developed under the coaches from rather inexperienced material, and any freshman who has ability at all will be given a big chance to show what his ability may amount to. The man who would gain a place on the teams must be prepared to make some strong sacrifices before he can realize his ambition. He must give to his training a rather large part of every afternoon in the season of his sport, he must regulate his habits to strict standards, he must do his :holastic work a littl better than the average, and he must develop a personality that will make him an unselfish, trustworthy team mat In all of the lines of 'Varsity competition, there are maintain I, also, class teams representing the classes in the various COllej s. This class of competition Class Athletics is popular, and attracts a larger number oi Competitors than the 'Varsitv teams u\o. < infrequently a player gains t much skill from his e\pc-
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