The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-12
FOOTBALL AT HARVARD
 STILL IN THE BALANCE
OVERSEERS DISAPPROFE OF ACTION OF THE ATHLETIC
 COMMITTEE.

Latter Recently Authorized COntinu-
 ance of the Game This Year Under
 the New RuIes-Overseers Not Satis-
 fled Because These Rules Were Not
 Submitted to Them-'Their Action
 Considered a Rebuke-Discussion of
 the Whole Matter Reopened.
 Cambridge Mass, April 11--Disap- proval of the action of the Harvard athletic committee in authorizing the continuance of football this year under the new rules was voted to-day by the Harvard overseers, with the result that the question whether the game will be permitted at the university is still un- settled, and discyssion of the matter is re-opened. The overseers l,y their ac- tion to-day did not pass upon the mer- it's of the new football rules adopted by the intercollegiate committee or upon the advisability of resuming the game under the reformed regulations They merely called the attention of the ath- letic committee to the latter's failure to comply with the request of the over seers to submit a report on the changes they proposed to make in the game. The athletic committee made no re- port, but at recent meeting voted to continue the game.
 By Harvard men the vote of the over seers is interpreted as a rebuke to the athletic committee because a netting at which it was voted to request re- port from the athletic committee, the overseers agreed that until this report had been acted upon and approved by the governing boards no further game of intercollegiate football would be per- mitted. Moreover while the regula- ton and control of athletics at Har- ward is given over to the committee on athletic sports, 1t is so bestowed by vote of the president and faculty, and the board of overseers, and when both the overseers and faculty of Harvard expressed disapproval of football as they did in January, and voted that the g me should be discontinued, it was generally understood in college circles that the will of the two governing boards would be the will of the athletic committee, which was created to have general supervision of athletics, though not to pass upon such questions as whether football should or should not be played by students of the universi. ty,
 The board of overseers took actior against football after having received from a subcommittee on physica training and athletic sports a drastic condemnation of the modern game The chief allegation of the subcommittee was that football was brutal. The overseers voted to-day that this re | port be returned to the subcommittee and that this committee confer with the Harvard athletic committee, call the attention of the athletic committee tC the request for information originally made by the overseers, and then re- | port back to the overseers at an early | date. 1t is understood that at this SoAASlSiiSS tHV VNol SVOlS SOlHllliItsc dliC the athletic committee will discuss the new rules in detail and that the sub. committee will then make some recon, mendation to the full board of over. | seers. If this report Is favorable it i. regarded as likely that football will bt played at Harvard this year, as usual under the reformed rules. The liar yard athletic committee Is composed of three members of the faculty, three graduates and three under graduates.