Address overviews the history of decision making for Harvard athletics. Makes a recommendation to the HAC that they do not appoint a director unless the committee is retained and involved or any appointment has clearly outlined responsibilities and authority.

Dean Briggs says farewell to his role as President of the NCAA. He makes a request to not be considered as a candidate for reelection and takes the time to say a final few words about this aims for the association and his general goal for academic sports. The speech is broken into three sections: "Faculty Control," "Playing the Game," and "Belief in Each Other."

Speech speaks to what makes up a good and bad physical director and the skills needed to carry Harvard University "out of [the] bondage" of unsportsmanlike behavior that is currently present in college athletics.

Address concerning the committee's hearing on a "report on ridding baseball of some objectionable practices." Discusses the role of proper sportsmanship and the responsibility of coaches and athletics broadly to present themselves in a "gentlemanlike" manner.

draft details the qualifications of a "good coach" and discusses the impact of the war on collegiate athletics, with discussiong on the need for coaching positions to be respected, supported, and paid according to their merit. A subsequent version of this text was published in the Atlantic Monthly in September 1918.

Provides a brief outline on the role of the NCAA. Discusses their yearly meetings, influences on the "Rules Committees," and the association's goals for college athletics.

Discusses his distaste for poor sportsmanship in collegiate sports. Uses baseball, "the most vulgar [sport] in this regard," as an example of how unsportsmanlike behavior can degrade the respectability of sports generally. He makes a call for collegiate sports to cast aside vulgarity in favor of a more "gentlemanly" behavior.

Discusses ethical questions broadly surrounding sports. He mostly centers on the "unclean" perception of sports like baseball and football compared to the "clean" sports, such as tennis and rowing. Includes analogies of war to detail the loyalty that college sports curate. He details the role of a coach or director to "purify" the "unclean" nature cropping up in collegiate athletics.