http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/sports/ncaafootball/at-the-university-of-chicago-football-and-higher-education-mix.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=university%20of%20chicago%20football&st=cse
An interesting read about how they long ago were a football powerhouse but decided it was incompatible with high academics and academic integrity:
""In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one," Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university's president, had written acidly of sports in The Saturday Evening Post. He particularly disparaged football, deriding as myth the idea that the game produced men of good character or instilled a sense of fair play. Indeed, for a college to be a success on the field, he said, it must be something of a scoundrel beyond it."
What the article does not say is that the U of C students have an expression about their school, "the place where fun goes to die".
An interesting read about how they long ago were a football powerhouse but decided it was incompatible with high academics and academic integrity:
""In many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one," Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university's president, had written acidly of sports in The Saturday Evening Post. He particularly disparaged football, deriding as myth the idea that the game produced men of good character or instilled a sense of fair play. Indeed, for a college to be a success on the field, he said, it must be something of a scoundrel beyond it."
What the article does not say is that the U of C students have an expression about their school, "the place where fun goes to die".
