The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-19

De1ng eligible for any athletic contest.
He wanted to do this to prevent ring
ers'' being entered in school few DAYS
before an important game, so that they
might participate in that one game and
then drop out. 1t was claimed by the
State Normal representative that this
would cut out a great many of their
students who teach school until after
the beginning of term, and then come
and enter classes at the Normal It
was also opposed by other delegates
on the ground that the first game of
the football season is now usually play
ed about September 80, which is not 80
days after the opening of school.
Another amendment which was CAL
culated to prevent episodes like the
Huerline affair at the Washburn-Beth
any game was one proposed by Prof.
Parmenter to Rule 9, making it COM
pulsory for a member of the faculty to
accompany the football or baseball team
of his institution when it went away for
gamess AS it is now, it is the duty of
the captain to exclude from the game
any player on his team not eligible to
play. It has been found that most cap
tainS will not do this Washburn
claims that the Bethany coach and cap
tain permitted a man named Clancy to
play under the name of Huerline. No
body on the Washburn field knew Huer-
line and therefore could not swear that
in Huerline's place. The plan proposed
by Prof. Parmenter was to place the
responsibility for such imposition di-
rectly on the faculty of the school, in
stead of on an irresponsible" student
captain. The only objection to this plan
was that it would cost too much to take
professor along at the expense of the
team, and the colleges did not see fit to
pay the bill themselves and lose the
services of the professor in the class
room. It was decided that the only
feasible solution of the difficulty is to
hold the captain of the team strictly
responsible, and put him under heavy
penalty for neglect in enforcing the rule
During the discussion of the rules, a
great many interesting stories and ex-
amples were told by the delegates to
show how the evil of professionalism is
able to creep in despite the efforts of
the faculty to suppress it. The mem
bers of the faculty present were unani-
nous in throwing the blame for the
violations of the rules on the "irre-
| sponsible' students who manage and
! captain the athletic teams. They were
able to suggest no rule which will alb
| SOlutely prevent improper practices.
/ The best they could do was to agree
| to conduct the business of the confer
ence ION honor" and communicate to
each other all suspected cases of pro-
fessionaHsm which occur in their own
| schools.
An application for membership in the
| conference was received from st. Mary 8
| college. f. c. Quigley, manager Of
|
the claims of his college, and the appli-
cation was referred to the executive
| committee of the conference, composed
| of the president, secretary and vice
president. st. Marys is the only school
| of any athletic Importance in the state
aside from Haskell, which does not
play under the conference rules, and its
| admission to the conference is now only
| a question of whether or not the stand
| ing of the institution is such that it
| can be claSSed as a college There is
some question whether the required
work and degrees granted are sufficient
| to give it a position in the conference.
In some ways the position of st. Marys
and Haskell is similar, as they each
| take students who vary from the ele-
mentary to the higher courses. So far,
the St. Mary's authorities have refused
to allow their students to play any
games outside of the town of St.Marys.
Nothing was brought uD at the con-
| ference in regard to the Huerline
affair." nor was anything said about the
possible disqualification of five mem
bers of the K. U. football team for
playing in a town team in Missouri
One of the Lindsborg professors who
attended the meeting said to reporter
for the State Journal
1--WE have a student by the name of
Huerline. He is regularly enrolled, and
is member of the senior class. It is
true that his name was omitted from
the list certified to Washburn. but
nevertheless he was eligible"
DO you know whether it is true that
someone else played under Huerline'e
| name2"
Il do not know anything about that"
WAS there any member of the Beth
any faculty present during the Wash
burn Bethany gamer"
Il think there was no one except our
coach, Benny Owen
| So it seems possible that someone
may have played under Huerlines
| name without the knowledge or consent
| of the faculty of the school.