The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-27
I.C.A.A.A.A.
Purport of the New
Rules Adopted.
HOW THEY VOTED.
Holy Cross Delegate Talks
Of New York Meeting,

y. II. OOnHelly, WHO Represented t1Oly
Cross College of this city at the annual
meeting of the Intercollegiate Associa-
ton, held Saturday afternoon in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel returned home last
evening on the S.5T o'clock train.
In conversation with representative
Of The Spy. who saw him upon his re-
turn, Mr.. Donnelly said that although
the meeting was largely attended, there
being nearly rs delegates present, and
that q number of radical changes in the
rules were made, it was on the whole a
harmonious session. 1.-The delegates adj
journed," said Mr.. Donnelly, feeling
that they had accomplished a great deal
for the cause of amateur athletics in
the colleges"
only once during the session" said
Mr.. Donnelly, was a roll call neces-
sary. That was when the amendment
relating to faculty control was being
voted upon. The original amendment
was that a faculty committee should
be appointed to settle questions of
scholarship and also questions of anna
teur standing. All the colleges believed
that the faculty should be the court of
last resort in questions pertaining to
scholarship or studies, but many were
not inclined to place the decision re-
garding mans amateur status in fac
ulty hands.
Harvard and Pennsylvania both be-
| heVed that the executive committee was
in every way, better qualified to decide
whether man was an amateur of a
| professional, than a committee of col
| lege professors. Princeton and Yale was
as strongly in favor of the amendment
as were Harvard and Penn opposed to
1t. On the roll call vote, however, that
portion OF the amendment was lost,
Holy Cross voting with Harvard Penn
and many others for its defeat.
"HarvardAs amendment that student
who has represented college in any
| Intercollegiate track meeting Of any
sort and has won point should not be
1 eligible to represent any other college
he might thereafter attend in the in
i tercollegiate meeting, was considered
altogether too sweeping and met with
| opposition from Princeton. from Penn
sylvania, from Cornell and from many
other colleges. The result was that it
was considerably modified before being
| finally passed
In its original form a man who had
won even third place in any intercol-
leg1ate meet as the new triangular
league between Amherst, Wesleyan and
| Williams could at no time in the future
/
for any other college. The Injustice of
this was manifest, and brought out
| more opposition than a little. On the
other hand, the amendment to the
amendment, as made by Mr.. Lehman Of
| Williams, was almost as broad in the
| other direction. AS passed the rule ap-
plies practically only to the New Eng
| land Intercollegiate Association, the
Penn State Association and other SINH
lar organizations whose membership in
| cludes a number of colleges.
"Lehman's amendment made the new
rule read instead of any intercollegi-
ate meeting any intercollegiate meet
| ing in which more than three colleges
competed and instead of ever repre-
| senting, representing for two years
| Point winners in dual and triangular
| college meets may thus shift about as
| much as they desire and yet be per-
| fectly eligible to intercollegiate compe-
tition, providing, of course, that they
comply with the other rules of the as
! ISOLATION.
1.-THE amendment regarding scholas-
tic athletes was adopted as presented
by the executive committee which was
in session most of the morning. The
original draft was to the effect that
any tnterscholastic place winner was to
be debarred from intercollegiate com
petition during his freshman year.
princeton fought the amendment tooth
and nail, In the executive committee
meeting, and finally won, succeeding in
having the word 'interschoIastic'
stricken out. and the words open meet
ing substituted. The amendment is
thus greatly modified, but at the same
time is decidedly severe. Take, for in
stance. the case of Moran, captain of
tho high school team here. He is now
an fnterscholastic athlete but at Bos-
ton week ago Saturday night, won
the 800 yards run. Suppose the rule
had been in effect at that time and Mo-
ran should enter any college. He could
not compete at the Intercollegiate eet-
ing in his freshman year. He had
won points at an open meeting This
rule will keep out Of the open handicap
meetings lot Of young athletes pro-
viding these men hope to continue their
athletic career after entering college,"
Mr.. Donnelly said he could not state
whether Holy Cross would be repre-
scented by a team in the intercollegiate
meeting next May. He considered the
chances good, however, particularly if
Holy Cross made good showing in
her race at the University Of Pennsvl-
vanla relay meeting the latter part OF
April.