Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2 [PAGE 16]

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THE GREAT CALL OF LIVING THOUSANDS

F EACH one of the Illini who gave his life in the war could be met again today in some dim, far-off place, and if he were asked what kind of a memorial would be dearest to his heart, could he feel more warmly toward any memorial than to the memorial which this Stadium will be? Could he ask anything better than that his heroism should be commemorated in a place of beauty where thousands of living youths and maidens shall breathe the fresh air, shall leap and run in wind and sun, and shall grow increasingly vigorous and healthy and better able to meet the problems of life? Surely the great Recreation Field which will answer the call of living thousands will answer equally well the imperious mandate of the dead hundreds. Today thousands of young people who want to play tennis and football and baseball and lacrosse and hockey and soccer and polo are practically barred from any but the meagerest exercise of these good pleasures. We have here men eminently capable of directing the physical energies of our undergraduates into profitable channels. In basketball, we have Frank J. Winters, who, like our other coaches, is more than a coach in the narrow sense of the word. He is interested in encouraging every youth to play basketball, as well as developing the abilities of the trained athletes on the teams. In the Y. M. C. A. Training School of Physical Education at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1910, he developed his ability to give personal

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"It is the call of the living thousands as well as the silent voice of the heroic dead which will be answered by the one-hundred acre Recreation Field" . . . . "where thousands of living youths and maidens shall grow increasingly vigorous and healthy"