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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY in The Crimson:
"The English instructor who set off a controversy at Brown Tuesday by demanding that intercollegiate football be banned at the university will have a chance to debate the matter with the athletic director and the head gridiron coach.
"Wade C. Thompson, through an advertisement in the Brown Daily Herald, asked for signers for a petition that called for the abolishment of football at Brown, labeling the game 'anti-intellectual and bourgeois.' The Herald quoted the instructor as saying, 'the reaction to my proposal exceeded my wildest expectations.'"
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