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Rh have kept prominently before the students the idea that school and college work comes first and athletics second. The larger ones, however, were more careful in this respect than ever before, and the indications are that in the future the lover of clean sport will have little cause to complain on this account.

I have mentioned only college football thus far, because football is primarily, although not exclusively, a college game. I wish now to say a few words about the one athletic club of these states that supports a football team. The Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of Portland, stands for all that is best in club athletics. This year it turned out a team which, by defeating the universities of Washington and Oregon, won the championship of the Northwest. That, however, is not what I wish to commend—it has done that before, many times. What is worthy of special commendation is the personnel of the team, and the spirit which has been behind it. In previous years there has, unfortunately, been a tinge of professionalism about Multnomah football teams which cannot be too severely condemned. But this year George McMillan had the management of the team, and it is to his credit that, with so many temptations to do otherwise, he had a team made up purely of club members, every one of whom is free from any charge of not being an ama-