The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-29

Is therefore stopper TOT All UNIV
unless the committee reverses its decision.
This committee is composed OF Prof.
@. Lord. chairman; Prof Edward
h. Mitchell and Prof. George Clinton ID.
Odell. There were present also at the
conference Prof. Marston Taylor Bogert,
formerly controller OF sports at Columbia,
and Prof. George w. Kirchwey, chairman
OF a former committee similar to this. The
decision was made this afternoon. 1t is
understood. that football must cease, but
the formal declaration OF this step was
left TO the conference at Prof. Mitchelrs
house, 70 Madison avenue.
DRAFTED RESOLUTIONS.
The committee voiced the sentiments I'm
a set Of resolutions as follows:
Under the authority conferred by the
university council upon the university
committee on student organizations, ath-
letic and other, to supervise and control
all student organizations. which In any
way represent the university before tho
public. IL Is
Resolved. That from and after Dec.
81, 1905. the football association OF Column
bia university shall be disbanded, before
which date all It's accounts shall be
settled 10 the satisfaction Of the comptrol-
Ter Of student organizations:
Resolved. That I'm the opinion OF this
shall be abolished. and the committee
respectfully recommends 10 the university
council that the game be prohibited at
Columbia university"
Prof. Lord. who is at the head or the
psychology department I'm the college, and
who is chairman OF this committee. also
made the following statement:
1.-THE reasons for this action need no
explanation. They must be present TO the
= " accumulated uFffh tho
gam as II Is now played. Only by such
radical action can the university and col
lege life be rid OF an obsession which
Il is believed has become as burdensomc
to-the great mass ef students-as-t has
proved itself harmful to academic stand
ing and dangerous to human life.
II was not stated last night whether or
not the member OF the advisory board
or the coaching stan OF the football team
had been called into consultation before
the action was taken.
- CONFERENCE CALLED.
Action toward the end reached already
by Columbia was called for yesterday by
the faculties OF college and OF the schools
OF applied science at New York univer'
sity. These faculties requested theii
university council to call a conference OF
| 20 colleges. with the idea either of abolish.
ing football. reforming IT or determining
n substitute for the sport. The univer'
| sity council acceded TO this request TO
! might. The colleges invited TO the con
ference were those only with which New
York university had had athletic rela
| ,ions Yale. Harvard and Pennsylvania
were not included in the list. Princeton
and Columbia were the biggest institu'
lions included.
Each college is invited TO send a repre-
sentative OF its faculties and a represen
,ative OF it's athletic organizations, max
ing a total OF 10 persons to deliberate OF
the following questions;
Flrst-Ought the present game OF foot
| ball be abolished?
second-If II should not be abolished
what steps should be taken TO secure III
thorough reform7
Third-If abolished what game or games
NAV be possible III tts place, I'm the opfntof
OF the athletic representatives IN at'enu
ance? u
II was added that the delegates from
Nav work. university were instructed u
sunnort the resolution recommending I'M
| abolition OF football.
COACH MORLEY SPEAKS
Coach Morley OF Columbia. when ASKED
last night what he thought OF the ACTOR
OF the committee, said: 100,
"rbe number OF deaths from footbal
this season was 10. The NUMBER las
season was about the same and do no
,hink Their. has been any increase In I'M
death list for many years. When yo'
consider that during the football seaso'
| probably 100000 players engage In I'M
game. the death rate is wonderfully small
And I believe Il Is considerably smalle'
| than I'm such sports as a~utomobiiing' stee
| -nlechasing. hockey or horseback and ONO
ss,rcnuous sports. will say further tina
MIA yers run no more risk OF meeting wiz
death than the whole human Family zoe
IN the ordinary risks Of life.
"r bave given the football situation
considerable attention later. aside IRON
the actual work Of the grtdiron. and
believe that the game can be modlhe'
,n some ways. some OF the plays chanse.
! or eliminated. which would do away wiz
some OF the danger without detract'h
from the spectacular phase OF the sport
81 have nothing 10 say as to the ACTOR
NJ the committee at Columbia out
recognize the fact that that BODY mas vi
mower TO abolish the game from the COZ
ieqe sports II Il so Wills"