Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-30
COACH MADDOX
ON NEW FOOTBALL
Wants Utah to Benefit by Mis-
takes OF Radical Re-
formers.
NEW RULES TOO STRINGENT
And a. Consequence a Big ln>ur-
rcctior i. Brewing in College
Circles Of Middle West

When Coach Joseph Maddox le't
Salt Lake for his ola home in East Jor-
dan. Mich. az the close Of the school
year az the University NJ Utah. ihe
-Neus requested him 90 furnish th.s
department with his Impressions OF the
Western Conference Track and Field
meet, which he intended 90 attend and
of the athletic situation in the middle
west. where the reform movement .- at
SIS height Ilc has responded Win iho
following review OF tine present trouble
over rsles t0 govern the new football.
when I left salt Lake city ON May
Is intended writing lu article on the
big conference meet held June . al
Evanston. 1lL. but the meet turned out
10 be- such a waIkaW8y Tor the Unit
verdty OF Michigan that ! hardly
thought 10 would Do interesting 90 %.
people ~ Salt Lake CITY. However
have concluded 90 write @ few lines
with regard 10 the present conditions
here n the middle west pertaining to
The sweeping reform Iu athletics.
Of course. We an hope for nothing
but clean. pure. amateur athletics 500
our colleges and universities but the
most ardent admirers 1f amatcurlfW
cannot help admitting that the pcda-
gogucs who have been pushing the
present reform campaign have far over
reached themselves and 70 Is openly adj
mittcd here bon the mlddlo-Westciu
states and by men whose regulations
stand FOR something that the reform
has gone entirely too far. The reform
committee Is being criticised musi
severely in their move abolIshing the |
training table during football season, /
the rule forbldding more than tire. 1
years OF competing hy any college man. |
barring graduate students from par |
iiclpaiion and the cutting Of the gate I
receipts TO so cents.
SOME NEW CHANGES.
II seems 10 De the general opinion. |
and Il looks reasonable tO me, That |
certain changes were needed. for in- I
stance. such changes as the rule calling |
for man 10 be enrolled one year Dee
fore being allowed on teams for the in- /
ttitutOu. that every man must Do up in /
lhis studies. and perhaps limiting the /
number of games 10 be played during /
abe season.
RESURRECTION BREWING.
The rule limiting a participant to
shree instead OF four years was hard |
blow to athletics ia the middle west,
especially now AT a time when the west
IS beginning To compete with the far
east. Next fall Michigan meets Penn 4
lsylyanla on The gridlr0n while Chicago
meets Cornell. The eastern institutions /
ALLOW four years competition for each /
man, so they have a decided advantage /
over the WesteIners. This rule was /
taken like bad medicine by the h's /
nine colleges. but now that The news I
comes IN from the last session ~ the 1
r0mmittee that the thrco-year rule shall |
be retroactive 10 seems here that II Is |
liable 10 cause an upheayal among the /
colleges Of the big nine. IL cuts Michl- |
gan and Chicago more than The other /
members Of the big nine and these two /
institutions are already taking active |
steps toward leaving the present assoc
citation and applying for admlttauce IN /
10 the eastern intercollegiate whore no /
such stringent rules exist.
BAD DOCTORING.
II seems IN the making OF these rules
III was not taken into consideration, /
under the above named conditions that /
only sophomores and juniors would |
be eligible 10 compete next year. StiIl /
the lawmakers do not seem 90 De- able /
20 give a satisfactory reason why "a .
college man who Is eligible under every .
rule shall not be- allowed 10 compete.
THE MARROW PATH.
one can easily see II the present state /.
OF affairs goes ou that 80 win b. but |
few years until tho college students .
WIN lose interest in college athletics .
and win turn their attention ln some |
other direction. There Is nothing. MOI |
can there Doe anything substituted |
which Keeps the student body iu tbs I
straight and narrow path ~ good NOR
ais more than DO athletic competitions. 1
II is not merely The N men on the foot
ball team. the nine men ol tle baseball /
team or the eight men on the college /
crew who receive the benefit OF athletic /
competition q is more or less the .
whole student body the members 0f the .
various teams meiely setting a good .
example Tor their admirers 90 follow. .
and o is safe 90 state. N Ve take athle-
ties away from the students they are .
going 90 turn their natures 90 some .
other sport less respectful by far than
our college athletics OF today.
In Offering these few suggestions. / /
merely wish % put cold facts before the I
people Of the far ives; aud cause those
Of the Rocky mountain district who I
are interested in the welfare of future /
college sport 10 80 mp and take notice /
that our districts W1v benefit hy the
experience ~ the middle vest
j. a. MADDOX.