The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-27
COLLEGE ATHLETIC REFo.s..
Enforcement Of YaIe's New EH'gibiI-
ity Rule Attracting Attention.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE enforcement
OF tie new eligibility Jules at Yale Uni
versitg is attracting attention throughout
the college athletic world and il is he
hev@d that it viii not be long before Yale $
example viii be generally followed Al all
leading institutions Of learning The evi-
dent determination Of Yates authorize, $
to keep athletics absolutely free from
Irregularities is part of a reform wave
that has been sweeping over other big
universities Of late. though they have not
/ as vet put into effect their new plans
/ Some time ago members of the faCuI-
. ties of Cornell, Princeton, Columbia NJ
versity Of Pennsylvania, Harvard. Brown
and other colleges held a long discussion
of the athletic Que StIon with the result
/ that they drew up q set Of rules that a1
! first appeared to be strictn, IS pers 1aified.
! Yale took no part il the deliberations.
/ but the New Haven faculty watched
. them with interest.
/ When the rules formulated by the JOINT
! conference were adopted there was con
/ siderable adverse comment. but this has
( gradually disappeared because Of the SAP
/ posed Inactivity Of the trainers. Follow
/ ing Hale's action, however, it is said that
! all the universities that foster athletics
/ on a large scale viii see TO il that the
I eligibility of all students must conform to
! the rules as laid down by the different
! faculties and that TO amount OF gradu-
ate Influence can he brought to bear to
cause exceptions to be made in the case
Of star football ana baseball players.
track athletes or NON Jers of Varsity and
freshman crews
The compulsory withdrawal OF BIooner
from Iale's Varsity eleven for a year at
b
rules, shows that tn Yale faculty means
business. Under: tt!s.zz= ,ild order of events
Bloomer could have made up the ground
: lost in his studies IN time to resume foot
/ bail playing next fan, but now there is
no chance. Last November, 1t viii be re-
n1ernbered. there was report to the eff
feet that Perry Hale, YaIe's star full
back, had gotten into some difficulty with
the faculty because he had fallen behind
! in his studies Whatever happened to be
the case, Hale, after a lay-on OF several
weeks. resumed his regular place on the
eleven.
It is said now, though. that Hale viii
not return to Yale next fail. ard that The
! existence of the new rules has som, thing
to Go with it With Yale setting the pac
Harvard is certain 20 follow without d.
lay Harvard s athletics, by the way.
nave always been more above r~prCaCn
than the different branches of sport at
rival institutions Few protests have
been lodged against the eligibility Of
Harvard representatives, Tor the rea-
son that tie athletic committee at
Cambridge has tce.a - SLIckier 1Or q rieII
enforcement Of the existing rules Penn
Syit ana ms SHOWN ImpTO EeiEent recent
y IN EsepIEg lneIigIbleS OF the various
teams but there has been fault found
within a year Harvard protested NC
CT. cken, the fuilback, last year, but he
We finally allowed 70 play.
dy a week ago there MS a general
con plant from leading colleges that sew
. CT members OF Lafayette eleven had
no legal right 20 play football, while n
( iiJt' over a year ago Cornell had To eX-
+ plain the true status of Waibridge and
PlerSou. C0lumbiaS action TWO years
ago IN playing outsiders on the Varsity
eleven was further proof that these re-
forms We're necessary. and columbia, by
the way is at present making "A sincere
: effort 10 purge athletics Of acknowledged
evils Next fall COlumbiG-S Faculty Ath-
. letic Committee. il IS said. VIII put the
screws on harder than ever with the idea
of removing ali chances for protests
against the members OF the eleven In
the work OF reforming college athletics il
would appear that those in charge might
do well To have some rules passed pro
hihiUInE q man VINO has once left 1 uni
verSity from coming back to participate
in sports The case IN point IS that OF
Richard Sheldon, who, after leaving Yale
TO go into business. re-eutered that uni
versity last fall and played on the eleven.
Another rule might ne passed prohibiting
student no mas Isi=ed 10 pass lI4t en-
: trance examinations at one university
from taking part in athletics at another
institution the same year
II has frequently been the case that
schoolboys DESTROYS Of entering q certain
college have failed TO pass the required
exanIua tons and have then gone to an
other university. where they were able
TO compete IN sports as special students
without taking any examinations at all
There appears 10 be no good reason why
college athletics should not be uniformly
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