The Minneapolis journal., 1901-10-10
ON THE GRIDIRON
NEBR. CHEERS UPITHE REPLY TO NEBR.
Faculty Committees Answer to the
Rogers Protest.
NO TIME FOR AN "oPINIoN"
Protest Came Too Late to Get Ruling
by Conference Arbitrator
Before Game.

The faculty athletic committee of the
university has made its formal reply to
the Nebraska protest against Rogers, the
ex-Carlisle man on the Minnesota foot
ball team. 1t was sent yesterday by Pro-
fessor F. S. Jones, chairman of the COM
mittee, and is as follows:
Your communication of the Sth inst, max
ing formal protest against Mr.. Rogers as a
member of the Minnesota football team
reached me this morning. l have laid this
protest before the faculty athletic commit
tee, and hasten to inform you Of their deci-
sion The committee finds:
First-That the Carlisle Indian school is a
government industrial school for Indian chill
dren, teaching elementary subjects only and
making no claim to being a college. Its
graduates find difficulty in entering the fresh
man classes of American colleges.
Second-That Mr.. Rogers was resident of
Minnesota and attended Minnesota public
schools before going to Carlisle. That he has
prepared himself for his university course by
two years of work in advance of that offered
at the Carlisle school. That he is bona
1de student of the university and was never
a member of any college team.
Third-The Carlisle school has already been
recognized as merely preparatory school.
Mr.. Cayon was formerly a member of the
Carlisle football team and upon leaving Car
Isle he entered the University of Illinois and
became a member of the Illinois football
team. Illinois had football games with Min
nesOta and four other conference colleges.
Mr.. Cayon was never protested by any of
these institutions and was recognized as fully
eligible to Illinois team.
Finally, our committee is convinced that the
right Of any institution to be recognized
as a college must be based on more adequate
grounds than it's success in athletics. In
view of these facts the committee must re-
fuse to debar Mr.. Rogers and must insist
upon his right to represent Minnesota in all
Fred s. Jones'
Chairman Of Faculty Athletic Committee.
This letter is in direct reply to one from
]. T. Wyer, Jr., Of the Nebraska univer-
sity football committee, to Professor
Jones, which, in addition to an outline Of
the protest printed in yesterdays gu r
n l. said:
You are not ready, surely, to break a rule
Of your own making, recommended by you to
others in the interests of clean athletics.
This letter bears date of Oct. Z, but was
not posted until Oct. s, and did not reach
Minneapolis until yesterday, so that there
was no time to get ruling from Pro-
fessor Waldo OF Purdue before Saturday 8
game.
Prices Cause Talk.
The price list for the game Saturday
has called forth a good deal of comment.
1t runs thus: General admission, ST. re-
served seats, 81; box seats, $3.50. The
figures are considerably above those Of a
year ago; hence the talk. The feeling
among the outsiders is that the prices are
too high, that they impose too heavy a
tax upon lovers of the sport, the alumni
and students Of the university, many OF
whom want to support athletics at the
university, but think that such prices are
prohibitive.
On the other hand the management says
that 1t is compelled to make the above
prices owing to the very limits of the
seating capacity of the grandstands and
to the heavy expenses imposed in caring
for athletics at the university. Were
there seats enough for 10000 or more,
prices could be kept lower, but with the
present seating capacity in order to Sc
cure the income necessary to support "U''
athletics, prices had to be advanced.
Football has to carry other athletics at
the university, it is urged, and so long
as that is the case large returns from the
games will have to be assured. If only
Football had to be taken care of out OF
the proceeds Of the games, the problem
| Oh low prices would be very simple, but
such is not the case
Furthermore Minnesota has to make
two trips this year The first of these
Will be to Madison, Wis. From this game
the Minnesotans, under the terms of the
agreement, can scarcely hope to receive
over $1,000, Then will follow the trim tC
chicago and Champaign, ILL.,, taking prae-
tlcally week, with the consequent heavy
expenses and smaller returns than would
be received if the game were to be PLAYED
mere on home grounds.
All OF this makes it necessary to charge
pretty high prices or else to send out 6
corps OF solicitors to secure funds to sup
port athletics at the university. The lat
ter the athletic board will not do, Sc
| there is only one alternative.
The effect of low prices in Lincoln, Neb
redhot football town, is pointed to
There 1t was announced yesterday thai
the training table would have to be aban.
| doned owing to lack of funds. A train
Ing table is essential to the perfect prep.
aration of team, and if Minnesota wants
winning team, it is said, they should be
| willing to pay adequate prices.
Besides, If surplus develops, it will be
! put to good uses in the enlargement 0,
| Northrop field and the furnishing of al
OF the equipment necessary for the de.
partment Of athletics.
Men Go to the Lake.
Dr.. Williams and his men leave fol
Lake Minnetonka this evening, and the
remainder Of the weeks training will be
taken at the lake. The practice at the
lake will be secret and the team will moi
return to the city until Saturday.