Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-13
EASTERN SCHOOLS OPPOSE
STUDENTS JOINING
HURTFUL TO AMATEUR SPIRIT
Claim That Participation In Athletic
Contests Under Club colors by
College Athletes Leads
to Professionalism

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in non-col1ege championship meetings.
On the other hand, the university men
of the middle west have been excep-
tlonally active. The rather poor repre-
sentation of the east was not due to
any fear of a defeat at the hands of
the western men, but was caused sole
ly by the attitude of the eastern facul-
ties. Four or five years ago all the
athletic club teams of the east were
made up largely of college men while
still undergraduates. But now there
is a change. Cornell university took
the initiative and refused to permit its
students to compete for athletic clubs
at all during the college year, and in
the summer only during the months Of
July and August. They probably would
not be allowed to compete even at this
time, except for the fact that the uni
versity being closed the faculty has no
control over the students. The move
ment to keep college men off the ath-
letic club teams is being done in the
interest of amateur sport, its sponsors
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teams is professionalizing college men,
A different idea SENS to prevail in the
west, especially at Chicago and Mil
waukee. where athletic teams are COM
posed of the best college men in their
section of the country. In fact, their
university year had hardly closed be-
fore their athletes began to gather from
the different institutions, and have been
in training almost constantly until the
present.
Yale university's athletic authorities
continue to have great difficulty in Sc
curing a suitable successor to Mike
Murphy, who has returned to the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Ever since
Murphy announced his intention to
leave the Yale authorities have been
on hunt to find man big enough to
fill his shoes. The two men first con-
sidered were Mike Sweeney of Hill
school at Pottsville, Pa, and Keene
Fitzpatrick of the University of Michi-
gan. But Yale's experience with them
was the same as that of Penn a year
ago, when they offered princely salaries
to take charge of the Quaker athletes.
Sweeney now receiving a salary of at
least $4,000 a year, while Fitzpatrick
gets $4,000, of which $4,000 is furnished by
the state. Had either Sweeney or
Fitzpatrick showed any inclination to
quit their institutions for Yale their
salaries would have been increased in
an instant. The victorious teams which
these institutions have been able to
turn out year after year mean much
more to them that the salaries their
trainers receive.
With Fitzpatrick and Sweeney out of
the running, the choice of the Yale
authorities has been narrowed down to
Steve Farrell of Rockville, AL Copeland
of New York, and Bowler Of Dart
mouth college. Although these men are
experienced in their work, they do not
measure up to Murphy's standard.
That this is so is shown by the fact
that Yale has decided to engage an
other man to look after the condition
ing of the football men. When Muir
ply was there he attended to both the
football and the track squads, coach
ing the latter entirely He will perform
a similar service at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Although all the members of the
"Big Six" are opposed to the prelimi-
nary football practice, there is unde-
niably much activity in evidence at
several of these institutions. Coach
Glen Warner is already on the field at
Cornell making preparations for his
fall campaign, At the University of
Pennsylvania there have been several
meetings of the board of coaches who
are said to be preparing something rad
ical for this fall.
Unusual interest is being attached
to the plans Of Harvard and Cornell.
After a series of gridiron reverses
Harvard has resolved once more to be-
gin all over again, To this end "Bill"
Ried was installed as head coach last
spring with plenary powers. Ried has
been making good use of his time and
during the spring practice he has
taught the candidates for the Crimson
more up-to-date football than they
were able to learn during the two years
he was away. The new coach has also
secured the promise of several prepara-
tory stars of note to enter Harvard,
and with the really good material which
Harvard holds over from 1904 he is ex-
pected to have little difficulty in turn
Ing out first-class eleven. which may
be able to turn the table on Penn and
Yale this fall.
At the University of Pennsylvania
there are rumors Of radical changes
to be made in the style of play. In fact.
It is said that about the time of the
Harvard game the Quakers will spring
style of football as revolutionary as
the famous guard back" which lifted
them out of obscurity into the front
rank of the intercollegiate world a de-
cade ago. Additional color is given to