Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-12-01
BAN ON FOOTBALL.
Columbia University Forbids
Game After Jan. 1.


Game After Jan. 1.
The following dispatch was
sent out from New York City,
Nov. 28:
Columbia University has abol-
ished the game of football, as at
present played, as one game OF
sports in which students of the
university will be permitted to
engage. This action was taken
at meeting OF the Colum bia
University student organizations
held tonight at the University, at
which were present the following
members of the committee:
Professor Lord chairman; Pro-
fessor Mitchell and Professor
Odell; also President Butler and
Dean Kirchway and Professor
Brogart, the two latter being
former cnairmen of the com
mittee:
The following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
Under the authority conferred by the
University Council on student's Organ
izations to supervise and control all
student organizations, athletic and other
wise which in any way repl esent the
university before the public; it is
Resolved, That from and after Decem-
Der 81, 1905, the Football Association of
Columbia Uni tersity shall be disbanded
before which date ali accounts shall be
settled
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
committee the present game of football
shall be abolished and the committee
respectfully recommends to the unlver-
sity council that the game be prohibited
at Columbia University.
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 render them
selves liable to expulsion.
Professor Lord said after the
meeting of the committee:
The reason for this action need no ex-
PLANTATION. They must be present to the
mind of every one acquainted with the
game as now played. Only by such
radical action 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 it has
proved itself..harmful to academic stand.
ing and dangerous to human life.
From the above we see that
reaction has set in as the result
of sentiment. The game oil
football is a strenuous one it can
not be denied. Almost every.
where there is a cry for modi6.
cations of rules and of the game
generally, but Columbia Univer
sity, ofNew York City, takes the
lead among all of the large col
leges of this country in abolish
ing the game.
The game of football as a
present played is most danger
Gus and on a count of lovers o
pu.e and wholesome sport, a
we'll as the interest of athletic
generally, it seems too bad tha
there could not be a modification
of the game to a degree tha
would reduce the danger to lif
and limb. As at present indulg
ed in the game is pretty hard OF
1.-THE youth of the land. Il is
/ false doctrine to preach that TIL
flower of young manhood mus
be crippled for life in order t
j make the future generation
strong. We do not desire to Sc
, the game go, and would sugges
such compromise as would les
! sen casualties and place the gam
) on a footing approved by all
1T seems that this could be ae
complished.
If the game is maintaine
along present lines it is quit
likely to be frowned out of CO
+ leges and universities. Thi:
!: however, will not, in all prol
i = ability kill the sport, but wi
I result in football leagues on tt
i same lines that at present fostt
I professional baseball team
. Whatever may be the turn of a
r fairs it is quite likely that Il
''c recent action of Columbia Un
versity will result in good.
II Condition of Market.