Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-30
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PUTS
BAN ON FOOTBALL
CONFERENCE CALLED
Committee on Student Athletics In
vltes Representatives Of Other Uni
verslties and Colleges to Attend
Meeting to Discuss Reforms.

L
New York, Nov. 2s.-Columbia uni
versity has abolished the game of
football, as at present played, as one
Of the sports in which students of the
university will be permitted to en-
gage.
This action was taken at meeting
Of the Columbia university committee
on student organizations held last
night at the university, at which were
present the members Of the commit
tee, Professor Lord, chairman, Profess
sor Mitchell and Professor Odell and
also President Butler and Dean Krch-
wey and Professor Bogert, the two lat
ter former chairmen of the commit
tee.
Committees Action Final.
The action of this committee is
final. The students are not permitted
to play without the consent of the
committee and If they do so they rem
der themselves liable to expulsion.
Professor Lord said after the meet.
ing of the committee: "The reasons
for this action need no explanation
They must be present to the mind of
everyone acquainted with the game as
now played. Only by such radical &C.
tion can the university and college
| life be rid of an obsession which, it is
believed, has become as burdensome
to the great mass of students as II
has proved itself harmful to academic
standing and dangerous to human
life
University Calls Conference,
| Almost at the hour when the body
of young Harold Moore, the Union col
lege student who was killed in foot
ball game with the University of New
York team last Saturday, was being
laid to rest in Ogdensburg yesterday
the faculty Of the University of New
York took definite action looking tt
the abolishment Of the game of foot
ball as 1t now is played Every col
lege whose football team has playet
against New York university sine,
1 1856 when the latter's team was or
|ganized, has been invited to take par
4 in conference fully to consider an,
dispose finally the future of the game
With the. call for the conferenc,
went the announcement that the New
York university delegates will supper
a resolution that the present game O
football ought to be abolished.
The colleges invited to the confer
ence, nineteen in number are:
lUnion Trinity Fordham
i Syracuse Haverford Ursimus
Hamilton Rensselaer, Lafayette
Wesleyan Stevens Rochester
A Lehigh West Point Amherst
Rutgers Columbia Swarthmore
u Questions Are Submitted.
The invitation which was sent t
each of the colleges suggests the TO
lowing questions for consideration:
i Ought the present game of footba,
to be abolished?
| If not, what steps should be take
to secure Its thorough reform?
If abolished, what game or game
NAV be possible in its place?
Each college or university Is Invite
to send a representative of it's facult
and a representative Of Its athletic Of
ganization, making possible membel
ship of forty.
President Summons Harvard Coach.
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 20. - Wn
T. Reid Jr., Harvard's head footba
coach, has been summoned to tn
White House by President Rooseve
!. to talk over the football season
Reid will probably go to Washingto
! Friday.
Heston Deserts Drake?
: Sioux City, Nov. 29.-Willie Hestol
one time Michigan's famous half bacl
who has coached Drake universit
through the football season just en-
ing, has. disappeared from Drake, an
the announcement is made that h
,, had accepted an offer of $500 to pla
! at Canton, Ohio, tomorrow.
: The Canton Athletic club meets tn
: Massillon Athletic club tomorrow an
: each has procured as many stars {
: possible, regardless Of cost.
brakes most important game wi
: be played with Ames on Thursday an
considerable feeling has been cause
by reason of Heston's desertion. tt
athletic board of that institution a
nounces, however, that Hestcn aske
and obtained full and free consel
from all the authorities before h
| departure