The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
NEW RULES
To Govern College
Athletics.
RADICAL CHANGES.
Compromise on School-boy
Clause Adopted.

New York Feb. 25.-The annual meet
ing of the intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletes of America was held at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel today and some
very important changes in the constitu-
tion and rules in relation to amateurism
and scholarship of men competing in in
tercolegiate contests were made.
The association has been working for
years to eliminate every kind of profess
sionalism from college sports, and its
rules are very stringent on that point
They were made more so today. This
year, for the first time, the matter of the
athletes scholarship in the institution in
which he belongs and which he represents
in Intercollegiate contests was brought up
and demonstration was changed so as to
forbid a man who has lost his class stand
ing for any reason to compete in inter-
collegiate sports
Another sweeping change was the di-
Norcmg of bicycling from track contests
ana the formation of a separate aSsocia-
ton Tor controlling intercollegiate bicycle
racing.
The executive committee of the asso-
citation met in advance of the general
meeting, and reconsidered its action of
Friday, when certain recommendations
made by Harvard and others made by the
University. of Pennsylvania We're voted
down in the joint meeting of the execu-
tive and advisory committee. At the
meeting of the executive committee this
morning the two universities combined on
compromise amendment which was
The amendment as adopted reads: "a
student shall be allowed to compete at the
intercollegiate meeting four times aud no
more This applies to all departments
medical school, law school, academic. etc
If a student has represented a college in
any intercollegiate track meeting in which
more than three colleges participates, and
mas won irst or second place in any
event, he shall not be eligible to represent
any other college he may hereafter at
tend in the intercollegiate meeting until
he has attended such college two full CAL
endar years. This amendment is not to
be retroactive. but affecting only those
VINO enter college after the date of the
adoption of this amendment T"
The proposition made to bar for Il year a
man coming from Il preparatory sChou
who has won q place in an interscholastic
or open meet was modified in the com
mlttee, and later in the general meeting
SO as not to disbar the interscholastic
winners but only those who have taken
part IN outside athletic contests and won
honors, 50 as TO make them desirable
ACQUISITIONS to the college athletic man
ayers. This and the part of the rules
barring men who do not keep llp their
college work are included in the following
amendments:
No one shall represent any college or
university as competitor at the annual
held meeting who has ever won 4 first
second or third place in any open field or
track sport until he shall have resided
one calendar year at the college or uni
VersitN he represents, and has passed an
annual examination on q fun years work
NO one snail represent any college or
university as a competitor at the annual
held meeting unless he shall be a student
for degree or take special or partial
course that requires an amount of work