Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-17
UNIVERSITY HAS
NO ADVISORY BOARD
Article Alleging fractional Fight
Based on misunderstanding
OF Situation.
FACULTY COUNCIL CONTROLS,
The Only Difference of opinion Is that
Which Exists Generally In the
Athletic World.

a morning paper today devotes two
! columns OF front page space to an at
tempt to set at the true inwardness OF
the athletic situation at the University
OF Utah, and bases It's main position on
the belief that there are two athletic
boards at the University with cock
tenslVo power. and both at conflict as
| 10 the proper policy TO pursue. Prof.
Byron Cummings Is quoted as repre-
senting one faction" and Or. c. G.
Plummar the other, and the men are
made TO appear as having very different
opinions on what constitutes purity In
athletics, and how the team should be
supported authoritaiively.
NO ADVISORY BOARD.
The most serious error in the wrtenp
IL the fundamental one that there are
two athletic boards, and consequent
division Of authority. along parallel
lines, With no centerng place The
fact Is that the advisory board" men,
toned In the article is mythical one.
and has been 40 during The entire sea-
son. This year the advisory honrd"
went out Of existence AZ It's own voll-
ton during the track season last
spring, and In fact the most conspicu-
Gus change on Cummings field this year
mas been the absence % It's former
members, Callahan Claiming, Ander-
son and Eaton, on the field.
That the Varsity has suffered from
The lack OF assistant coaches this year
Is claimed by many, as Maddox has
been forced 10 give most OF his time
to he Varsity eleven itself, and there
has been but little done In the line OF
whipping new men in for next year.
ID fact Coach Maddox himself takes
the view that what Is most needed now
IL a system to condition the secondary
squad and number Of asslstan.
coaches composed OF old players or 9TH
ers Interested In the game to break men
into the rudInents, while he ls work.
ing them into shape on the nrst eleven.
Just why the advisory board ceased
its connection with the university Is
not known. IL was composed OF foot
Dali men from the eastern colleges. who
loved the game, and were willing TO
help build 1t up here. At the invita-
ton OF DR.. Klngsbury they agreed 10
help Tor one year, and 40 what they
could to get the game started. Mad
dock came nj the beginning Of tina,
year and during his first season they
hened him I'm every practicable way.
At the end of the year. however they
retired, aud left tho school to It's own
resources
REGENTS IN CONTROL
This year DR. Plummer, formerly a
member OF the board, has often been
on the field, and once at his Invitation
and solicitation. Mr.. Callahan came no,
but did but little coaching az he was
busy with his High school eleven. The
fact that DR., Plummer has been on the
Held is no doubt responsible for the i'm
preston that the advisory board was
stu In existence, The fact is, how
over. that DR.. Plummer, who is also a
member OF the board OF regents. Is
chairman OF the athletic committee of
that board. His work on the field
this year has been as chairman OF this
committee. its other members being
Waldemar Van Colt ana Richard w.
Young, both OF whom have been fire.
quent campus visitors.
AT the University, the faculty athlet-
ic committee has complete control OF
athletics. and all authority is conferred
IN that committee with Byron Cum
mlngs at its head. However, the COM
mttee is responsible to the athletic
committee of the board of regents, with
whom the ultimate authority rests. 1t
was this committee which last year or
dered the extensive improvements lu
Cummings field. and which Is now max.
ing the fight on Jack Hume on the
grounds that he Is a professional, and
10 allow him to play would be to lower
the proper standards OF amateur sport.
THE JACK HUME CASE.
The fight on Hume has become un.
popular among the students, who re-
alize that he has not been paid TO come
to school, il legitimate student. and
Is barred by Or. Plummer from play
Ing on the team, because he left col
lege athletics to engage In bicycle rae
ing for prizes, and then tried to return
to college. They regard the case as
one OF strained technicaliies instead OF
an actual ease, IL Is doubtful II Hume
could play on a team where the uni
verslty Is careful about it's profession
ais. In most cases intercollegiate
agreements would bar him II no high
er authority had made ruling, as
such cases are usually more fragrant
than that OF the popular rider
WRONG TO HIRE MEN.
The general fight on professionalism
In college athletics I'm which Dr. Plum
mer Is engaging, merely claims It Is
wrong to hire men 70 play on the team.
who are brought there 10 play, and not
10 study, That his attitude should he
construed 90 mean that he Is in favor
of not letting n man work his way
through college II he is an athlete, Is a
mistake, so he says. He himself worked
HIS way through college. Every college
has It's football men working In com.
mon With other students hut that Is
very different from the Universlty's en-
terine the business Of throwing Jobs out
to men, before they become students,
and then winking at tho scholastic at.
tainments Of the man so employed.
NO FRACTIONAL FIGHT.
Dr. Plummer insists only that the
University see that the player Is doing
his college work, and Is a legitimate
student. With the position OF Prof.
Cummings on the general subject OF
the right of man TO work his way
through school While playing on the
team, he Is in hearty accord. and II Is
a mistake 10 indicate thar there IL any
fractional fight on az the CAMPUS, or