New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
COLLEGE SPORTS PURER
GREAT PROGRESS MADE.
Plan to Enlarge Scope of Interc@'
lepiate Athletic Association.


held Yesterday at the Murray Ein Hotel in this
city OF the thirty-six colleges and universities
which are members Of the association twenty
eight were represented by delegates. while there
We're seventeen visiting delegates from those col
leges and universities which are planning to join
.n the near future. Pennsylvania while MEM
ber OF the association, was not represented.
while Professor II. S. White OF Harvard. who
had signified his intention OF being present as a
visiting delegate was not able TO attend at the
last minute.
The meeting was an enthusiastic one. and
progress ,rss made looking toward the reGula-
rton and supervision OF college athletics through
out the United States. IN order that they may
be maintained an ethical plane in keeping
with the dignity and high purpose Of education.
Plans were lasa which made possible perma-
pens arna,gamation Of the football rules commit
tee appointed by the association with the ole
football rules committee. made up Of representa-
.,ves from Ysie. Harvard Princeton. Cornell.
y,ennsrlvauta. Annapolis and Chicago. Resolu-
.ions were also adopted looking TO the improve
rnent OF other branches OF sport ana looking
TO the expansion of the association until it sheii
be absolutely national in scope. IL is ue a'iii
Of the association 10 secure the cooperation Oh
INCH prouinent universities as Yale. Harvard
Princeton and Cornell, among others. ana IL is
Ekely 90 be only question OF time pelore su0-
cess win crown its efforts
w.. -,As+,nr Was led 70 order by President
Palmer r Pierce shortly after 10 a. m AFTER
hearing the report OF the COMMITTEES on creoeh-
tials end the reading Of the minutes OF the
national conference last December, various re-
ports OF officers and committees were read ana
adopted. Dr. Harry /. Williams. OF Minnesota
made a long. comprehensive and exhaustive re-
port on the football rules committed He out
lined the steps by which amalgamation with the
l,aA a1H al ~
the cordial cooperation OF the two bodies.
brought about In the formation Of the Amert-
can intercollegiate football rules committee.
consisting OF the seven original members and
the seven men appointed by the conference He
also explained the changes in method OF pro-
oedure by which football legislation was fac;l
tated.
The old committee required unanimous vote
for the introduction OF any change in the rules,
and this made any reform difficult. II not I'm
possible. The amelgamated committee made
eight a quorum for the transaction OF business
and required only a majority vote 20 legisiate
DR. Williams explained that the representatives
OF those universities which made up the old
rules committee hesitated 10 toin the associa-
ton long they had no definite assurance
OF continuing on that committee, and they
not willing 10 submit TO rules IN the making OF
which they might have voice He then read
the resolution adopted by the amalsamatsd COM
mittee Of 1906. IN which II expressed that
continuity OF membership on the committee
was OF paramount Importance 70 the best in
terests OF the game BE recommended the adop-
ton OF the following resolution. which was
unanimously carried:
Resolved. That the chairman eppoint O. co,,-
fnittee Of three 10 confer with the athletic su-
thoTiues of the institutions represented on the
orc Fties eoinInlttee TO ascertfn whether there
is not basis upon which teey will agree 10
become members Of this association and tn tha
event that there be such a basis that said com
tnlttee prepare revision OF Article Y of the
pslaws prescribing the method of appointment
OF football rules committed that would be ac-
epIaoe spI. 20 NOSE INSTITUTIONS. TO be presented
70 this BODY for consideration et its next annual
meeting "-u'A
\ President Pierce accordingly appointed DIR
Y Harry L williams and IL. James A Rahb,,t %
serve with himself
III was also resolved that the football ru,es
committee elected for 1907 shouls he cornnovas
OF seven members. aud directed TO &c. ss ,oI
loEs: 80 -''
ives OF Yale. Princeton. Harvard. Pennsvlyanie
s. SO.le.L Annlsrois and Chicago universities who
Coilsututed the committee that formed the foo-
pau rules committee during 1905, and propose
t., glat the committees be amalgamated into one.
IWnlcn saau formulate rules under which +oo.
baI SHAH be played during 1907
second.f this analgamation be not accom-
named NJ
seven shall proceed 10 formulate ,iIins 49, %
this association " -''N'''"0'S VI
1hird-'That the seven members eIec.ea bv
ms conference shall be guided in their action
50 as 10 secure the following: (a) An open game:
enl elimination of rough and brutal PLAYING: (cl
oeanie ana precise rules OF plav: (cl orgaYiza
uon and control OF officials in order that ina
rules MADE shall be strictly and inpartiay en-
forced. '-4"' e-'-
Later on the seven men we're appointed as
follows: DIR. Harry l. Williams. Minnesota: DIR
j. A Babbitt. Haverford: Professor Savage
oberlin; Lieutenant Charles D. Dalv West Point.
professor Lees, Nebraska: L. X Hall Dart
mouth, and Professor w I. Dudlev. Wander
Dit This committee is the same as last year.
with the exception Of Professor Dudley. who
was substituted for F. Homer Curtis, who repre-
scented the Southern colleges.
1t was the general feeling that few. II any
changes in the rules should be made. but the
committee was not embarrassed by any direct
instructions. DR.. Williams expressed the heller
that an amaiganation with the old committee
would be speedily effected a. a meeting 10 be
held on The last Saturday in January.
Professor Louis Bevier, OF Rutgers. advocated
the restriction Of intercollegiate games and the
association passed the following resolution:
Resolved. That it is the sense OF this convcn
t.On, In The interests oe the proper work OF o9,
Tauon tGat The number OF intercollegiate nlafc,
limited by faculty vote
That interclass games end intramural ath
5ehcs AZ general should be fosteree, 10 the end
benefits. and that intercollegiate com Detiton lc
failler AN Incident than tho main end oF college
aAd university sports.
ne eYAs CT summer baseball were discussed
"a 81 was suggested that sorne rule should i.
setised and passed which would enable students