The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-22
FOOTBALL RULES.
The Undergraduate Policy
Not Adopted.
Meeting of the Managers of the
Berkeley and Stanford Teams to
Decide Eligibility of Players.

Contrary to reports, the undergraduate
rule in football will not be adopted by the
University of California and Stanford this
year.
This rule was passed by the Eastern In
tercollegate Association and was framed
for the purpose of purifying the sport. IL
limits the eligibility of membership to the
football teams to undergraduates of the
colleges.
The adoption of this rule created intense
excitement in the colleges and Harvard and
the University OF Pennsylvania refused to
adopt it and formed separate league
among themselves. They claimed that
they were universities and not colleges,
and that the graduates of their acad emic
departments who entered the professional
schools had perfect right to representa-
ton on the, teams.
What effect this rule would have on their
teams Of this year has been often discussed
by the students at Berkeley and Palo Alto
during the past few months. The State
University men took the side against the
adoption of the undergraduate rule. be-
cause their professional schools in this
city were becoming more and more gradu-
ate sch ools every year and they wanted to
have the heartiest SUI port and co-opera-
ton of the students on this side in all their
plans.
The Stanford men, on the other hand,
thought that the undergraduate rule
should be adopted in order to aurify the
sport and also because it was rumored
that Hunt would return to Berkeley, and
that Clemans was about to leave Pal0
Alto.
But it was all a matter of conjecture as
to what course the managers would take.
although when it became certain that
Hunt would take a postgraduate course
at Berkeley. the policy of the University
anager was taken for granted.
However, the meeting last Thursday
between Manager Denman of Berkeley
ana Captain Wilson of Stanford, decided
everything definitely.
Manager Sawyer of Stanford was too
i'll to be present, so he transferred his
authority to the captain of the team,
The undergraduate rule was discussed
in all its bearings. CAPTAIN Wilson uph old
ing it, and Manager Drnman opposing il.
The latter was seen last night and stated
that his opposition was based on TWO dis
tnct grounds.
He held that the University of Califor-
MIA was a university in the true sense of
the word and that the members Of its
graduate schools had a perfect right to rep
resentati0n on the teams; also that. as he
had asked number of the graduates, who
intended to pursue postgraduate work, to
return to Berkeley and resume their
studies there. and if possible help out his
team, he could not we'll bar them from
playing ii they did return.
This Stanford committee agreed to the
justice of this and at last agreed to play
under the rules adopted last year. These
agreements were brought out and care
fully studied to see If any alterations were
needed.
No change was found necessary. as by
one of the sections of the agreement all
regularly enrolled students were found to be
eligible to membership on the teams. This
section is the most important one of the
contract and reads as follows:
Art. 3. Sec. mo one shall be eligible to
take part as player in this game who has not
been bona-hde student OF the college on
whose team he plays for at least six weeks
prior to the annual game, andtregular pursuing
courses which require bis attendance upon at
least hve lectures Or Rotations week.
The next game will take place ON
Thanksgiving day and will robably be
the most exciting ever played here, as
both managers are now hard at work tly-
ing to secure coachers to be with the team
from the beginning of the season.
Stanford will probably have Mr.. George,
who coached the Laurenceville team SO
successfully last season.