Can Haverford develop a successful athletic program without compromising itself?
by Marc Chalufour The Bryn Mawr and Haverford Bi-College News, April 27, 1999 “Everybody likes to win and ought to like to win, but the game has for the most part been played here at Haverford for its own sake as sport.” When Rufus M. Jones wrote this in 1933 he touched upon a problem which has only increased over the past 66 years. There is no question that coaches and athletes want to win, but to what lengths must a school go to be successful athletically? Haverford, as an institution, has opted not to emphasize athletic success. The result is a broad athletic program, offering everything from basketball to cricket, in which a quarter of Haverford’s students compete. Few of these teams are competitive within the Centennial Conference, and even fewer at the national level. To this day, athletics are played at Haverford “for its own sake as sport,” while at other schools athletics have taken on far greater significance. While most athletic programs were formed around a school’s footbal
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