The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-06
Is Found in I. G. A.
A. Amendments.
BlGE hDWS VIEWS.
II
ae Says the Association Is
Decayed to the Core.

There are many things to be said |
both in favor of and in opposition to
the proposed amendments of the Inter
collegiate Athletic Association as they |
We're published in the papers of last /
TUESDAY morning. For instance, some
OF the changes seem to have been pro-
posed just for the sake of a wordy de-
bate. All of them, it appears to me,
are rather confusing in their wording. |
Take in the change of section iv, ar
Nicle ~, the proposed amendment now
reads: mo one shall represent any |
college or university as a competitor
AZ the annual field meeting who has
ever represented any other college or |
university in any other intercollegiate |
Reid Or track sports until he shall |
have resided one calendar year
at the college or university he repre-
aents and has passed an annual exam |
iiation on a full years work" Now this
change can be interpreted to mean that |
man can compete for another college |
n ne completes for a first college, but |
docs not take examinations at the first |
college on a full years work. Or he can |
compete for a second college if he has
aAStri tA1au DIT the uTSI cOleSe.
This Is not the idea it was intended |
20 convey at all. Neither is it, the right |
idea, for a student who completes for
a college should be identified with that
college for all time. If he does not take
organizations he should be subjected
to the rules for dropping students which,
appears as another change for this
year. asrs-f
OF course this rule would hurt all
colleges with Harvard, the proposer. in
cluded But it is evidently levelled es-
pecially at Pennsylvania. The trouble
N the big Intercollegiate association
has great analogy to the trouble over
the Dartmouth needles in the smaller
New England association. Pennsylvan-
~ has practically no undergraduate de-
partmept and depends largely upon her
graduate schools for her candidates.
This means that Pennsylvania is bound
70 have upon her team many graduates
OF other colleges When therefore, Penn
plays, such noted athletes as Krenzel-
EN- Baxter, Brooke and others she lays
herself open to suspicion that she
ecours the land for athletes who desire
cid.
It is unfortunate, l will admit. that
there is q chance for any such sus-
plcion, but surely such rule would do
much good by putting a clean face on
college, athletics. Considering the ath-
lete, himself, graduate of another coll
lege should be too busy to do the train
1ng necessary to make a college ath-
letic team. Any athlete who changes
colleges during his undergraduate
course does so for a purpose that is
not healthy for amateur sport This
athlete seeks compensation for his
work and his ability, for the average.
man gives his choice of college more
than passing thought and does not
care to change after once having ehos-
en- unless there is something back of
It an
The proposed change debarring in
serscholastic point winners for year
IS nice change educationally if not
~ an athletic sense. II woull;d9 S & ,;7 in
- n,oener purpose ne assffqq6 untried athlete
zv IL ICY sway the large developed
rsSau and 1t would give the at present
&Ner-done interscholastic athlete a
GAMnce 10 recuperate so that he would
RSrhaps DO better work in the future
~ cannot be shown to be sonahle
or justifiable. however. to hoI5sa fhs
tlled athlete during his freshman year.
Inc interscholastic boy has Learned
uiscretion by the time he has entered
college. Surely he ought to be his own
master irrespective of the IntercolIee-
late ASSOCIATION. If his college desires
70 restrict him, that is quite another,
matter. am inclined to think that this
- a proposal by Penn to harm those
VINO get the interscholastic bows Penn
does not get them at all, while Har-
YARD, Yale and Princeton get the ma
3ority Of them.
The rule barring special or dropped
students until they can regain stand
lng y q good one in theory, but it's prac |
ticaDility | seriously question. From
the start 1t involves an amount of
bookkeeping and watching that would |
keep large committee busy the whole
gedr round BESIDES, | am inclined to |
think that many of the colleges wouId
be able to hide all 7delinquents which
inns rule tries to hit This is another
Penn. rule. The public generally does
not know that the Penn. exams. are all |
ways held before the intercollegiate
games and thus her athletes would
ali pc back in thier class by the time of |
the games. In this same way Penn runs
man from another college in his first !
Year In Penn, because he has passed |
y calendar year at the college This. of |
course is the Quaker Interpretation of !
Nv The faculty rule has something in
) Ils INYor in that it will tend to clean
Up the intercollegiate athletic world. !
~ present the colleges are too far
away from each other In spirit If good
soenosninded professors are appoint |
"a fne big colleges ought to get into |
flossE Nouch and have better under
[t-.->-etfros NAuNSNe 1t is n3rd to see |
how busy professors are going TO give
mucn flme to a discussion of these
etnleuc affairs, and I fear will not be
q position, because they cannot give
Hne ~ study them, to judge of these
HAIRS as a final court of anneaI
Again; Il the Intercollegiate association
annot be run by the students because
the 1ockeying, etc, 1t is time for the
association to disband
This leads US to the fact that there is
Aore Juggling in the association than
nything else. All the rules proposed
re to hit somebody else, not for the
eneral good of the association. Manv
1.-The rules proposed have kerneIs az
POO sense and much in their favor,
~ they have been twisted to suit in
tviduhl ends. -
1t all comes down IN n, go
tat the intercollegiate association 81 -
Acayed to the core. 1t is beyond puri-
alton by internal measures. Thai is |
~ harvard and Yale desired to drop
1T and IL is duitp si1ra fho4 rr- - y