Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-30
NEW COLLEGE ATHLETIC UNION
Availability of National Association
Discussed Mt New York.

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The ACCESSIBILITY
of forming national athletic organization
Of the colleges and universities was dis
cussed at the annual meeting of the Inter-
collegiate Athletic association of the United
States which began here today. Another
important proposition IS that the foot ball
rules committee elected for 1907 be anna ga
mated with the representatives Of Yale.
Princeton, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell,
Annapolis and Chicago universities during
1907. In case the proposed fusion falls the
foot ball rules committee In the lntercol-
legiate Athletic association will formulate
rules from which foot ball shall be played.
DR.. Williams, chairman Of the foot ball
rules committee, submitted n report which
said the representatives OF Yale, Harvard
and other large institutions hesitated from
taking part in the amalgamation, because
by doing so would become simply units
and would have no standing on the foot
ball rules committee. To meet this objec-
ton he suggested changing the bylaws and
the foot ball rules committee to be made
up of the members of the old rules commit
tee, plus seven members of the association
committee.
DR.. Mccormick of the University OF
Pennsylvania said he hoped the convention
will suspend or alter the rules so that
the suggestion as to the amalgamation can
be carried out and a permanent foot bah
rules committee established.
Prof. Dudley hoped all the southern coll
leges would Join in making the Intercol-
legiate Athletic association national and
representative.
The condition of college athletics in ColoA
RADIO, Ohio, Texas and other parts of the
country was explained by delegates. They
al stated that the association work is
raising the standard of amateur sports
and that great advancement in that line
was accomplished in the last year.
The convention put itself on record as
favoring the amalgamation of the present
foot ball committees, but in case that
cannot be accomplished. the seven members
Of the foot ball committee of the Inter
collegiate Athletic Association of the United
States appointed for the coming year were
directed to formulate rules under which
foot ball shall be played by the institutions
Joining the association With a view to
extending the membership 1t was decided
to amend the bylaws so that a conference
of several colleges may be presented i'm the
intercollegiate Athletic association by a
single delegate. Captain Pierce was au-
thorized to appoint committee of three
to endeavor to bring about amalgamation.
There was but a single change suggested
by the executive committee in the per-
sonnet of the foot ball rules committee
and that was that Mr.. Curtiss be replaced
by Prof. w. J.. Dudley of Vanderbilt. who
will represent all the southern colleges
This was approved by the convention
The following officers were elected:
West Point; vice president. Harry L. Will
liams, Minnesota; Observation-Disclosures, Prof
Louis Bever, jr., Rutgers.
On the executive committee the western
states will be represented by DIR. c. w.
HetheringtOn, University of Missouri.
No selection was made for the Pacific
coast district, there being no members from
those states. The convention adjourned
sine die.