The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-25
Iowa Football Captains Right
to Play Tomorrow
HAS BEEN QUESTIONED
Iowa Authorities attention Called
to the Matter.
BUT NO PROTEST IS FILEI
Lovers of the Sport Very Anxious tO
Have Brilliant Players In
the Game.

Clyde Williams eligibility to play with
the Iowa football team has been ques-
toned. Williams is captain and quarter
buck and star player. The doubt is
based upon the charge that he has played
baseball under an assumed name, thereby
violating the rules of the big Nine" con-
ference.
The matter would seem to have been
discussed somewhat at Iowa City from the
tone of the following special to h e
Journal received this morning:
The protest of Captain Clyde Williams by
Minnesota aroused great mirth among the
faculty members of the board of athletic con-
troll. Minnesota bases her protest on the
allegation that Williams played baseball a few
summers ago in North Dakota under nick
name. 1t is said here on reliable authority
that Williams has never played baseball OF
any other sport under any name which die
not permit of his recognition by the public
and that Minnesotas protest must fail, as il
is based on very slender grounds even II
fully substantiated. There is a great deal o1
doubt as to whether Minnesota will press
her protest to a decision which must be ad-
verse to her. A great many faculty mem
bers will accompany the team to Mime
apolis or will go on later trains so the mat
ter will in all probability be threshed out
in Minneapolis. Williams has recovered from
his bad foot so that he is able to play and
there is no doubt at Iowa but that he will
play.
DR.. Knipe Speaks.
Upon receipt of the above special q
Journal man called upon DR.. A. A.
Ko;r Iofa n
conference with Professor F. S. Jones,
chairman of the faculty athletic commit
tee of the University of Minnesota. The
attention of both was called to the dis
patch. They promptly denied that Min
nesota had made any protest against Will
liams playing in to-morrow's game. 1t
was clear, however, that there had been
some correspondence with regard to the
status of the S. U. l. teams captain.
AS to the matter of a protest, however,
DR.. Knipe said very positively:
THE statements are not true. There
has been no protest from Minnesota. The
correspondent from Iowa City is absolutely
incorrect in his statement
Prof. Jones Statement.
Professor Jones showed considerable in
dignation at the sentiment, as indicated
in the dispatch, toward his communica-
tion setting the matter before the Iowa
board Later at the request Of T h e
Journ a |, feeling that the matter had
leaked" at Iowa City he made a state
ment in substance as follows:
Some time ago the University of Mime
sofa faculty athletic committee receive dfrom
three different sources letters in which it was
stated that Captain Williams had during a
recent summer vacation played baseball with
the Larimore, ~ D., team, under the name
of Wylie. 1t was further stated that he was
ostensibly in the employ of a druggist of
Larimore at the time. 1t was not asserted
that he received pay for his services as a
baseball player though that inference might
have been drawn under all the circumstances.
However, If the statements received were true
Williams had violated a plain rule of the
conference and we could not ignore the mat
ter without overlooking the interests of clean
athletics in the west
1t was not our matter to SETTLE though 1t
was Iowa's. Feeling that to be the case, l
wrote to the chairman of the Iowa commit
tee, setting the charges before him. There
was no protest, simply plain statement of
the case as it had been presented to US, with