The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-03
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
rOIUHBIA VARSITY NDIDhTh
UyDER FACULTY RESTRICTIONS.
Fear That Several Crack PLAYERS ineipa,sf
Csntr. Rush wright and Half BACK hori'y'
NAV he Declared eligible Harvard Pisy-
A.. Ipiured, One Badly-News and GOSSIP

MAY Re Declared ineli Eibie -Har'sfo r'.''
or. Injured. one BadlJ-News ana 'o'"p'
Than ia a stir In Columbia football Affairs
The rules and requirements drawn up oy the
Faculty Athletic COMMITTEES. composed oil ProI'
j. =. Remp, chairman; Prof. y. X HUTTON fro''
q 4. Woodbury. and Or. W. L. Savage are 10 DC
enforced 10 the letter with the result that soveral
o,ock playeru who have boon expected 10 wear
varsity Uniforms will DO compelled either to
stop training or leave college. The authorities
nj Column arc determined that football this
year and in future shall be kept pure. especially
IN view OF the scandal that was made public last
winter. Then II will be remembered the fact was
disclosed that several star membersof last years
Columbia eleven we're not students OF the uni
versity In good standing. but had been virtually
hired 10 play because Of the lack OF good ma
terial This exposure resulted In the with
drawal from college Of the young man who had
nerve enough to get mp a Varsity team and SET
football a-rollinR II also had the enect oil
opening the eyes Of other colleges with which
Columbia wishes to play year In ond year out.
II was also a black eye for college sport which
had come to be regarded as the finest outdoor
pastime in America
In order h set Columbia right In the eyes
Of the college world. therefore. the Faculty
Athletic Committee. after much dciberatlon'
concluded to put into effect rules 50 rigid In
quality that further offences OF this kind would
be impossible.
To Coach sanford and Manager Shoemaker
this year has been compelled 10 I'LL out the
following registration blank.
l. Are you an amateur. l. e.. t) Have you re.
c,iyed. OF been promised, for participation in an ath-
lctlr competition a stake, money pr;e' a snare OF en-,
: taught or engaged In athletics loI a hhthhood' ~
ia, e. you tccrl'td, OF otth piV,ainu' !, ,ah,ms p"'tn
alae"ns 6e,Sec : ycut TcgT N 5 T9llsSs expenses and
w krc YOU regularly attending, and do you pur-
pose 81 TO attend the courses Tor which you are regis
: ia special student Cd) are you taking courses
amounting 70 nfecn hours a week, I'M Have you
,Ts sH ,9 ine Hp5TrIi IN al In your gGnt las, years TG' so ET.s ''''o
"a Have YOU any ,icondit0ns from previous years
u 80, state 'peo'nc""S IN """' 'ou''oS ''u WHIT"
neye you p%.s s,d,S = p Y: %,. cSSm 6T g.. y 14I'
ragx g''' ""
a., e, y ,s1d fcpir rs. tsa,s any 'TI'; 8, Or ,,. qo'S civ.
crcse years in witch said contest OF contests took
Many OF the students say that these ques-
t.ons, IL the answers Of cach candidate are
treated strictly. will make II impossible To get
ont any eleven at all. on tho campus yestor-
DAY il was common talk Tint the new rules.
jack Wright, who was the best snap back in
lie colleges last year, Half Back William Nor
lev. another star, together with Boohm, Ache,
inc mon f. Wright is In the law school and
b1s been there three wears already. ne
has one condition in h,s studies,
Athletic COMMITTEES would take him out of
The eleven. In such an event the Varsity
" S@ mnab Ie 80 make 7SIt" a respectSbie showing against
Harvard University Of Pennsylvania, Princeton,
Yale and nd the o indian nd. nsr,I But the ca snd t5s fsGaiIy
wiiI show a little leniency. as Wright went
to columbia to study law at A time when foot
xii wns no, tlonvht Of
Morley who WAS one Of the crack half backs
OF The country last fall. is a special student.
bu,y in tbo minds Of a few but Morley himself
avs his case comes within the requirements.
while pr. Savage says that as Morley has al
ready niayed one wear al Coumbta he will be
n" Tigbt Holman a Western PLAYER who
LOOKS 10 he n fast half back will BE- debarred
a d6b both Students in GOOD standing, have
recitations during the time usually devoted
20 football and cannot I have them S changed nnSs1
the snacisI 81 dent rifle. and for that matter
|" i believed Thar If he could piay his amateur
standing might be looked into Rogers Is
may be said Of owen and others, As far as
he is said to be eligible and will play. A SUN
aanS or tba lntter aid ~ ~ s
tolumbia il at stake and that purity In athletics
= much more Important than yict3ry, There
tbraa thousand students attending the univer-
sit, There should be no necessity to call In
otbidars ar IN aif Students as was the case last
ynSr An 81 ne want To- see A crack eleven I'M
Dr. aoid h,it must he made nm Of students
~ annJ standlng who come MI Ia the re-
n,sDorts ~ tho faculty. iii admit that
r'erert ~ lilo nile In Inc ca, oi
~, w mi he n bardsbin for he eleven
~, ,ha, ~ a n,atter thar the Faculty Athletic
pom, nnat u vii attend to With due pihIlcitv.
hrnt NJ II NorieV will not be mol esfrd a.
e. a. to 1000 az tbe unbiiyervitr l aCt year. but tho'e
r. t'tehuep ne hrn,sbt IN here .i,,uIt' Ia niaV
Nm NV III he Trled out heyond lie question
81 d"ubt'a
''NMnnaoar a. n shoemaker of the VARSITY
ManhSeL ;ntorvieH viii prof KemG
epnrM nnu ~ Enc,Itr A tbistic tomnittea
EhauuHah VI NJ, De confeh was conclnded
IA nlNnI. "hI tt,a 80 pof,,aed No. saV n
nhp'ihahfi h'uh.u ~ ai.a incH,nd ~ he
WORD, Soac1 oa"ho'E MId not All was
a'HPohuthpfS d. u Z emp""s Views diTeTed greatly
slld M, ilPin n - IN regard ~ Wrigb,
from thosLU %as common talE around
std 1917 football beadouarters Tint The
we NdLsiii npT,,mnndahie ntde,nrt 70 n,rifv
the sPo1, asoo that ,nisss conressinns were
ouuhusSU "a ,aIayen uou,Id he WRECKED II Was
uiaue tne IT, rIaVnrs vrho bove heen nro-
AIS suated n ,h5o RdanSaee Ran 1isconraScd from
n3unced engiDie nav peen ErSC9nrsscd t%
pn@ aGnns n DHp'i t oS '"e" o"'
7taausnt puO los, f., bis studias tho facu,tv
uou a. ip h,o Hl IN a. ~ mar ia MON in Me studies
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