New-York tribune., 1906-04-12
ON COLLEGE SPORT
Faculty Committee at Columbia Sug-
gests Drastic Measure.

The report of the Columbia faculty COMMITTEES OF
nine appointed several months ago by President
Butler 70 recommend the best ways and means Of
correcting athletic abuses at the university. was
made public yesterday. The report was rather
drastic in it's nature.
It was recommended to bar freshmen and gradu-
ate school from the varsity teams. to drop all
professional coaches except the oarsmen and to
do away with training quarters and training tables.
Rugby football was recommended as the game 10
take the place Of the American college game
The findings Of this committee showed desire
to sweep to side athletic competition with other
colleges to limit the expenditures ordinarily made
for the conduct Of sport and in general to limit the
importance Of athletics at Columbia.
The committee has put the results Of its invest-
CATION in the form of a general recommendation to
the university council, and this body will deal with
them at its meeting. 1t Is safe TO assume that
these recommendations have the force OF actually
enacted laws and that they are as good as IN force
now.
From the tenor of the report. It is inferred that
the faculty committee thinks that rowing and lawn
tennis should be the representative games 1t is
ruled that team shall be allowed 70 play more
than three out-of-town dates in a season An out
of-town game IS considered TO be one in which a
student to take part. must be absent from u
o'clock Of day until o'clock OF the next
and be unable to get back in time for the morning
lectures. Under this rule games with Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Yale are not necessarily out of
town. the trips be made under these ar
rangements
Further than that teams are limited to three
home games. that such organizations as the
basketball team will have to withdraw from the
intercollegiate league The basketball team plays
FIVE games az home and five abroad and. therefore
while under the Interpretation OF the "out-of-
town" rule they might be able TO play with Har-
ward, Cornell. Yale Princeton and Pennsylvania
away from home, they barred from meeting
rncre than three Of these their own floor. The
baseball team schedule also will have to be cut 20
a ridculously small number OF games TO fit the new
reouire1nents. The regulation against games after
commencement time hits other team as 1t does
baseball
The committee recommends also that there be a
number of barges for the use OF the students kept
at the boathouse. with the idea OF making rowing
he furnished by the university and viii be 1ree Tor
,1sa a. are the tennis courts South Field
freshman class teams Will be allowed TO compete
,,rder the same restrictions the varsity teams,
- rder 10 compensate for the loss OF varsity COM
ratitons for the first year men. The rules against
Graduates have originality, as they are bor-
TToTa5 from the WeSterners. VINO used them nrSt
To eboIition of the professional coach Is another
90 tal-an from the Western conference The
.,I,, So1Inobia ideas are those which make rowing
od eWn tennis the permitted and favored sports
~ ac0nones Instituted by having expenses Of all
Other sports cut down will PROBABLY save sum
9,st aboIt large enough TO meet the debts OF the
TIE fact that Columbia has so large percentage
80 ~ro5na+a students and that so many or these
5a out for teams is likely 10 make the ENFORCE
Toent OF the graduate rule a hard blow