The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-30
HOME RULE In F. B.
big Nine" Conference Hereafter
Will Let Each School Settle
Eligibility Problems.
Schreibers Reinstatement Means {
More Liberal Era in Control
of Athletes.

of the Wisconsin football team, accom-
plished at the big nine" conference
In Chicago Saturday afternoon, is a
step of considerable Importance to
western athletics in at least two ways.
In the first place, Schrieber will be
a valuable man to Wisconsin and will
unquestionably be an important factor
in the badger team next year. In the
second place the decision of the con-
ference to reinstate Schrieber, after he
had been suspended two years for a
merely technical violation of the con-
ference rules, indicates desire on the
part of the conference representatives
to allow good sense to triumph over
blue laws in athletics.
Schneider. it will be remembered,
was fullback on the Wisconsin team
in 1901 and was regarded as a star
man. Just before the annual game
between Minnesota and Wisconsin at
Madison in that year charges of pro-
fessionalism We're preferred against
Schneider. Minnesota protested him.
The case was laid before Professor
Charles S. Schlicter, Wisconsin mem
Der of the conference board. On the
eve of the big game, Schneider was for
hidden to play in that, the last game of
the Wisconsin season.
Schneider and Mueller.
Specifically the charges were that
Schneider had accepted money for
coaching some country baseball team
before going to college. The temper
airy disbarring of Schneider accom-
plished nothing for the purity of ath-
letics, inasmuch as his violation of the
conference rules was more in the
wording than the spirit of the law, and
1T accomplished nothing for the col
lege which was given the credit for the
production of the evidence in the case
for Wisconsin won without Schrei-
Der. All it did do was to create a
feeling Of bitterness in the badger col
lege against Minnesota and to shelve
Schneider for two years. Now, on the
second application. Schreiber who has
been out Of the game, altho in college,
for two years. is allowed to return.
The decision Of the conference ap-
pears to herald the coming of a ore
liberal Interpretation of the rules
which put Mueller permanently out Of
the game because he had once won SIS
in the fat mans race.
Baseball in Summer.
The div ision Of opinion as to the
merits Of professional baseball in
summer time was not the least inter-
esting feature Of the conference in
Chicago. While some Of the big nine
college representatives denounced
without reserve the custom followed
by certain college athletes of playing
on professional baseball teams for
their expenses" during the summer
there were those at the meeting who
maintained that there was much, vir-
tue in it.
Why a college athlete should make
a profession Of what he follows for
the pleasure obtained from amateur
sport during the college year, is not
clear to many who take interest in
such things. Possibly one champion
| Stage, the Chicago coach, whose star
protege, Eckersall, came perilosuly
near to being kept out of the college
game this year because of certain
connections with the Spaulding base
ball team which toured the west last
summer.
The conference hedged on the sub
| ject to the extent of turning it over
to Professor Stage, II. J. Barton of
| Illinois and Professor G. L. Schicter
Of Wisconsin.
Professor Cooly's Protest.
| It seems bit odd and rather to be
regretted that the conference could
| do nothing more than express it's SYM
pathy with the efforts of Superintend-
ent Cody Of the Chicago schools, who
is attempting to prevent Michigan and
| Chicago from taking Chicago High
school athletes into college before they
have finished high school.
In matters Of compe lition In college
circles there is always the swing Of
the pendulum. 1t is so In college fra.
ternity life and it is 50 in college
sports. Just at present it appears t
be the sports proselyters from Michi
gan and Chicago who are robbing the
| cradle. ...-
Homo Rule as to Eligibility.
Professor Jones says that it is VI
to each college to determine upon the
eligibility of candidates for admission
| and there the matter rests. Why no
let some of the "big nine" rivals es
tablish their own private high school.
to which promising youths of signs O.
athletic ambition. BY safely cor
railing them before their sympathie
have been played upon the twigs ma.
be bent in the way the trees should 81
Inclined. ..,,.
WHY NOT 4 "JITTIE SEVEN