The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-21
BITTER ATTACK MADE
 ON RULES COMMITTEE
CHANCELLOR OFNEWYORK UNI VERSITY GETS AFTER VAL
 TER CAMP.

Likens Him fin the Football World to a
 Russian "Grand Duke"-Refers to
 Presidents Effort to Bring Influence
 to Bear-Declares He Accomplished
 Less Than Emperor Nicholas With
 tue Russian ReactiOnaries-ImpOr
 ant Conference to be Held December
 2s-COIumbia AboIishes All IntereOI-
 Iegiate Sport.
 New York, Dec. 2O.-Dr. Henry M. MacCracken, chancellor of New York university. discussed football at some length to-Aght at the annual dinner of the aluhni association of the univer- sity.
 The question of football" he said. ''is fast taking shape. It resembles the Russian question. Over there it is the Russian people against the Russian grand dukes. Here it Is the football people against the football grand dukes The latter call themselves committee on rules They are really committee of misrule.' They have reigned for years by Virtue of their descent from a defunct ancestor, which, I am told, was an athletic club of New York city. They realized at their recent meeting that their positions were precarious They resolved each to strengthen him self by obtaining plebiscite in his fla vor in the particular university prov- ince from which he came. Accordingly an official announcement comes from Cornell that their university is now represented in the existing rules com- mittee by one of the members. An official announcement comes from Yale that football there is controlled by the graduates rather than by the faculty. Of course, the pIebiscite there is in fla yor of the Yale grand duke, who is chairman of the committee of misrule.
 Whether the other five provinces will endorse its graduate, who happens to be one of the grand dukes, remains to be discovered. It is to be hoped that at least a few of the secen provinces will refuse to give themselves over, bound hand and foot, to the oligarch who claims to govern their name. Like the Russian oligarchy, these grand dukes, ruling by virtue of a defunct ancestry are high and mighty poten- tates. .ss *%sS.s
 The hopeful but somewhat helpless gentleman down in the White House attempted to put forth influence over them some months ago, but, so far as the public has discovered, he accom- plished less with them than Emperor Nicholas has with. the Russian reac- tionaries. Possibly he accomplished something, for I read in the official foot ball guide for 1905 the following new legislation:
 CA distinction has been made be- tween the acts of the snapperhack and the acts of any other player of the side in the possession of the ball. If the snapperback makes a motion as if to snap the ball a scrimmage begins.'
 The official football guide says that this was the most important legislation for the entire year. Let us give credit for this, if we can, to the president of the United States as we'll as to the grand dukes of football. They have improved the position of the snapper back" ..
 Chancellor MacCracken declared that the conference of colleges and universi- ties to be held in this city December 2S for the purpose of discussing football reforms would bring together the wid- est representation of the higher eduea- tional institutions ever assembled in this country, and he believed much good work would be accomplished.