The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-06

Infeyeoliegiste Football Association
Fighting Over Eligibility of Players.
1here 10 the very Old Harry 70 pay in the
Intercollegiate Football Association over
sbs hght IS 10 what men should be eligible
% play IN the championship games. A few
days ago at special meeting held In New
York the obnoxious undergraduates rule
rs repealed, and Yale, Princeton and
Wesleyan united in substituting a new
rule. which means ruin TO the University
f Penpsyivania team If lived MP 10. The
rss rule is as follows:
sOne-So man shall be eligible for the
team OF any college In this association who
3 not parsuing bona fide course requir-
ing attendance on recisations or lectures
81 81 least six hours week. If a graduate
hf shall be pursuing \ course for degree
fequlring At least one years study. Ii an
undergraduates and not pursuing a course
ior . degree he shall not be allowed TO
pay during his first year in college.
"Iwo-Any man who has attended lee
fufss or recitatious in any other eoliege
sbaIi not be eligible for the team OF any
ecilege in this association unless he be e
uguiar member of the freshman, academic
and scientific class, or until he has spent
ene year OF residen; study in that college
1na mas passed satisfactory examinations
@Ihfee--No man shall play more than
tonr years on any team in this association.
Capt. Mackey. OF Pennsylvania, INTRO
dneed an amendment providing that the
new rule should not during the present
season disquaiify any player eligible under
the rules OF 1892 but II was voted down.
Pennsylvania claims that there is de-
hberate attempt on the part OF Yale and
vtrsra fns, 10 rt4fr. kNr - 4.
best men are special students. The new
rue Is worded so that it admits Balliett and
King, of Princeton, and Greenway. of
Yale. who were debarred by the under
graduate rule. 1t also goes far enough in
its provisions TO let in Sanford and Graves,
Who are now at Yale law school, and 1t is
Daid that these men will begin work for q
place on the Varsity.
Great indignation is expressed in Phila-
dslphia over the action of the association.
md all the sporting writer's there have
drawn up resolution denouncing what
hey term such unsportsmanlike conduct
On the eve of great football battle. The
University of Pennsylvania men have
secured an affidavit from osgood, the half
back who came from Cornell, and against
whom the new rule was TO a large extent
atmed, IN which he makes oath that the
charges of professionalism against him are
false. that he never received any pecuniary
compensation, nor was promised any.
either at Cornell or the University of
Pennsylvania. and that he Is bona fde
student in the department of civil engin-
eering.
The athletic association of the university
has issued an announcement through its
secretary in which IL declares the action
Of the football association in passing the
res rule TO be unconstitutional. and also
eertities that all of its players are bona flde
Students. who are not being paid for play
ing football.
Notwithstanding the passage OF the rule
Pennsylvania did not drop out any of the
men disqualified By 1t in last Saturday q
game with Princeton.