New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-04
THE UNDERGRADUATE WAR.


The peculiar position IN which college athletes have
been placed through Yale. refusal idorso under
graduate rule has upset college students
more ;ha" enyihi. tat has happened IN recent years.
Many locel college yes:erIly deporc the pres,
condition Of orar,. and while few advocate a plan OF
adu-'HeGt compromise, few believe that satisfactory
viii Dc reached Harvard graduates look
and smile. for the crimson had hand IN arranging
his scheme for tho publication Of ainsel. sports Her
refusal accept me situation us presented by Yale Is The
only step which Harvard has taken Yoc that
their captain and managers vii! not have resign
az a case OF football debating baseball. and
the baseball refused be upon" -aid Na.c
s,umnus yesterday. H. Il. EIss has placed himself In
position that do not how he continue
captain Of the baseball nine. Who his win bs
l cannot tell but dat Bliss viii
70 hold tie place. | understand that The Yale
viii Monday suggest a scheme 'o7 overcoming the
difficulty. The only feasible plan see Is for College
sports conducted heretofore until the end Of tho
college year June"
Tracy II. Harris q Princeton sad yesterday '"The
thing l. unfortunate IN the cx:rsnc. and really
cannot how tho boys cen eXtrcsn themselves. iir
yard you know, years attempted to lessiatc
question Of amateur athletics, bu; the effort
u nothing. iayards idea ocnhne teams
undergraduates, and this proposition was hight IN Prince
toG's Line II policy. l liked tho Undergraduate rule
recently passed believe that II would co much good
toward freeing college sport, from al ainn Of prOtcs
slCnasm. The idea OF the rule IL not 70
connnc athletes boys To the exclusion Of nd
at ai a. many people seem to think. plan Is
athletes other AID possibly lesser colleges. We oil
want 70 develop the st1.s' ourselves no: have some
oih,r college develop Grm and then scnd them 10 US
For instance the University Of Pennsylvania team con-
tans nine graduate, OF the eleven men on the team
The rule Is sueclng one, but lbs enforcement would help
sport
1T looks II Yae's action leaves Princeton ana
Wesleyan alone and I really ct loss TO know jrs.
what Princeton VIII do She maintain her policy OF
having only undergraduates, play her teams yet re.
serve the right 20 play AGAINST whom she peases shr
could Keep self certainly thought That
Yae's stand seconded It by Princeton, would be
able to Withstand Temporary snimosity Ia football q
PLAYER can represent his college only nve years and II
might be good idea another yeas were cut on making
eligible only four years
George \. Ad"- the president Of the University AIN.
lerc Club been advocate CT the undergraduate
Plan and he present ut the r"ccn; meeting at Yale
when the students voted down t.le rule. Nj Adec was
seen his Office IN Pinc.st. yesterday. H. said; Il
fay orcL the rule. think that !t reform In the
right giicycd ut the outcome OF that meet
In. Tie result decided surprise {, n, captains
and prrsdens VINO feel mortified that tht!r actions
have not lnd,rs,d. trust tnt They VIII not ~.
sign .or Yale cannot spare them. SIN ooleNe '"''
Yale will row an und-rciaduat" crew in the race WI"
Hafvnrd The friends Of no rule would have l''n NOR
content II had been poled They say ths' ohS
about haI the Yale students voted.