The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-22
SHOCKING TIMES At
DEAR OLD CAMBRIDGE
"What Are Those Dear Boys
Coming TOP" Say Over
SeerS.
Tribune speelol Sporting Service

| Tribune Special Sporting Service
| CAMBRIDGE, Mass. April 21-The
! Harvard board OF overseers has
checked the growing hopes OF tho Cam
| bridge student body that football would
| be played at Harvard next fall. by dis
approving the recent action OF the ath-
lctic committee authorizing the contln-
uance Of the game under the new rules
adopted by the National Football Rules
committee. So once more tho question
OF HarYard's 3 course Is open.
The ovsrscers dld not specifically veto
the authorization of the game nor eX-
press an adverse opinion on the new
rules, but called the attention of the
athletic committee to Its failure TO CON,
ply with tho boards previous request
that 1t report what changes were pro-
posed In the game pending the receipt
of what report the gan1o should be
suspended. Just what the significance
Of the overseers' action Is beyond the
fact that IL is p rebukc to the precipl-
tate action OF the athletic committee, is
not known even 70 Harvard men.
Why Not Play Skittlesp
The board OF oyerscers took action
against football after having received
from n subcommittee on physical
training and athletic sports drastic
condemnation of the modern game The
chief allegation OF the subcommittee
was that football was brutal The
overseeTs voted that this report be re-
turned TO the sub committee and that
this committee confer with the Har-
ward athletic committee. cell the at
tention OF the athletic committee To the
request for information originally made
oy the overseers, and then report back
TO the oVersccrs at an carly date
1t is understood that at this confer
ence the ovcrseers committee and the
athletic committee will discuss the new
rules In detail and that the sub COM
mittee VIII thon make some recommen-
dation to the full board of overseers
If this report is favorable. 1t Is re-
garded as likely that football VIII be
played at Harvard this year, as usual,
under the reformed rules.
The situation at Cambridge has been
very much involved since the agitation
against the game started. In the ath-
letic committee Is vested the authority
10 authorize or prohibit the game spe-
cifically This It has never done Both
the faculty and the overseers voted that
IL was their sense that the game should
be suspended until such changes were
adopted as would eradicate the o61ec-
uonable features of the sport and until
these changes were satisfactorily dem
onstrated. The oyerseers requested the
athletic committee to report such
changes to It, which the committee
failed TO do. 1t Is this failure that is
rebuked
Start an Old Ladies, Home,
The general situation with respect 10
the game Is unaffected by the rebuke
Inc athletic committees authorization
TO play was voted operative only I'm the
event of the approval of the overseers
and corporation. Until the approval Is
secured the game Is not Officially au-
thori2ed, Neither has il been specific
ally prohibited. The athletic commit
tee has power to authorize play I'm
spite of the overseers IL It sees III in
which event the action can only he
oVerruled by the oVerSeers and the COR
poration acting Jointly. since the two
bodies delegated to the committee tba
government OF athletics That the ath-
letlc committee would take such action
In the race of the overseers disap-
proVal is considered unlikely, but tho
possibility remains
The belief Is expressed by some that
the action OF the overseers is not so
much due TO opposition to the contin-
uance OF the game under the generally
approved new rules as It is to tho fact
that lts wishes were apparently ie-
nored, These say that the athletic
committee blundered and while n
probably did not jeopardize the game
II certainly delayed the favorable ne.
ton which was likely Further deyel-
opments In the situation are awaited
with the keenest concern