The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-08

AS remedy for existing evils. FRESH
dent Winston suggests the following:
First: Let us have natural evolution
OF athletics in our schools and colleges.
Let the schools stop hiring instructors
to play en- their teams. Let the school
teams represent the boys in the schools
and not the teachers, and let them eX-
clude professionals and amateur outsid-
ers. Let the schools compete with one
another and with the freshman teams in
the different colleges, abandoning all idea
OF competition with the regular college
teams. In this way athletics will have a
real basis in the schools. Each school
can have a regular school team, scrub
team a regular freshman team and a
scrub freshman team, making four teams,
which is enough to exercise all the ath-
letic boys in any school in the State and
to bring out all the athletic talent. Under
this plan the preparatory schools will
train athletes fer the colleges and the
University precisely as they train schol-
ars, whereas under the present plan the
colleges and the universities train ath-
letes and send them back to the schools
TO play on the school teams. Such trained
athletes monopolize positions on school
teams ana thuS prevent any real dIHicllC
development in the schools.
Second: Let the colleges OF the State
play more with each other and less with
outside teams Let each college organize
at least four teams, to wit: a regular
college team, scrub team, freshman
team and a sophomore team. Let the
colleges as We'll as the schools stop play
ing their instructors, and let athletic
contests be confined strictly to under
graduate students who are taking the
full quota of studies and are passing i'll
them.
mo man is eligible who is not an un
der graduate of the Academic or Sclen-
tific Departments unless he is studying
fer a degree in one of the graduate
schools and has been In residence one
year and passed examination for advance
studng with his class.
"No man is eligible who has ever re-
ceived any money or financial emolument
for his connection with athletics.
Furthermore. no man is eligible TO
represent the University who has not
maintained a stand % per cent higher
than the stand required for men who do
not represent the University in athlet-
les
He adds: las you will see from the
above brief statement our sports must
not interfere with studies and we rigid
" exclude the professional element in
any shape We believe, however, sim
cerely that the best safeguard against
such practices in athletics lies in a
healthy moral tone in the University it
self and that we endeavor TO inculcate in
every possible way
At Princeton the following rules pre-
vail:
members CT athletic organizations will
be held strictly responsible for regular
attendance on all University exercises.
Excessive absence will be promptly fol
lowed by suspension or removal from the
team of which the offender is member.
no student shall be eligible to mem
bership in any team who is a profession
al athlete or who has received pecun-
larry profit by reason of his connection
with athletics.
mo student shall be eligible to mem
bership in any team until he shall have
satisfied the committee of his intention
to remain in residence for at least one
year.
NO student shall be eligible to mem