The Washington times., 1906-04-02
NEW ASSOCIATION
FOR COLLEG|ANS
OutgrOwth of Football Con-
ferences in New York.
GEORGETOWN UND DED
Its Joining Depends Upon Amount of
Autonomy Allowed Membe-s-Prose-
lyring and 0ne-Year Rule.

Complete reorganization of the meth
DDS of controlling intercollegiate sport
is planned in a circular letter beng
sent to college presidents all over the
country by Capt P. z. Pierce, u. S. A,
president. and Louis Bevier. jr. Rut-
gers College, secretary, of the new In
tercollegiate Association of the United
States.
The proposed association was the out
growth of the football conference in
New York in December and already has
received considerable support.
Georgetown Waiting.
Father Macksey of Georgetown said
this morning that he had not as vet
received the circular, and did not know
whether he would receive one. When
the new association was broached at
the New York football meeting Father
Macksey took the ground that the puri-
fication of college sports should be a
matter in the discretion Of each insti-
tuition rather than in the hands OF a
central body which might attempt CO.
ercive methods in attempting to get
everybody into line.
Father Macksey said that If George
town is invited to join the subject will
be given very careful consideration,
but will be judged from the viewpoint
of the amount of autonomy allowed in
dividual members.
The circular states that il was
thought best not TO require a definite
set of eligibility rules from each in
suCution, but that their bylaws would
indicate a minimum eode" of eligibil-
ity requirements. The bylaws provide
for publicity and the country is Gi-
vided into seven districts. The Dis
trict of Columbia. New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania. Delaware and
Maryland are in the Middle States.
Proselyting Taboo.
The "miaimum eligibility rules" sug-
gested in the bylaws provide against
the offering of inducements OF any kind
TO promising prep school men, directly
or indirectly, and also against using
the various arts and wiles so well
known to enthusiastic collegians to get
around a prep star and influence him
TO join their particular alma mater In
other words, ''proselyting'' is tabooed-
Contestants must be taking a full
schedule OF work. and must not have
done anything to professionalize him
self according to the laws of amateur
sport, but technical, unintentionaI or
youthful infractions of the amateur
code must be differentiated from de-
libelate acts.
Emoluments of all kinds are forbid
den. and this includes direct or indirect
positions of profit, such as soft snaps
in the library and other handy little
schemes of that nature A man at a
training table shall receive no more for
his expenses than his regular board.
Freshmen Barred.
Students must attend a college one
full year before being eligible for in
tercollegiate competition, and the four
year rule IS to apply.
Any man taking part in an intercol-
legiate football game and leaving the
school without having been in attend
ance two-thirds of that collegiate year
shall not be allowed to play the next
year at the same institution.
The new association proposes to ap-
point football committee which shall
meet every year and submit its re-
port and recommendations to the an
nual convention. Later, If ii is thought
advisable, similar committees may be
appointed to regulate basketball and
other sports which may be said to be
still in a somewhat formative stage and
subject 10 change