New-York tribune., 1907-12-28
TO CONFER ON SPORTS.
BALL DOOMED.
One Nezo Member for the Football
Rules Committee.

The IntercolIesiats Athletic Association of the
United States will enact drastic reforms at itS
meeting the Murray Hill Hotel this afternoon.
1t will take UP the matter of summer baseball and
pass regulations which 1t expects will cure the
crying evil. 1t will suggest means TO correct abuses
In basketball. and 1t will name the members OF the
football rules committee represent Ii in recastng
the playing rules. On this committee there Will be
one face, displacIng well known legislator.
These things decided upon yesterday after
noon at a session of the executive committee OF the
association. II met at the Murray Hill Hotel and
was in session for five hours 1t was attended by
President Palmer L. Pierce. West Point Harry l..
Williams, University of Minnesota Louis A Bevier.
Rutgers; Professor W. L. Dudley. Vanderbilt Uni
versity; Professor C. w. Hetherington. University
of Missouri: Professor c. E. St. John. Oberlin Col
lege. and Professor Henry d. Wild, Williams.
The committee which appointed to try to
association will also make its report This report
will recite the method to be followed in the selec
ton of future football rules committees to the
views of the big colleges. 1t will also tell of the
OF the coll ges enrolled it will relate the refusal
of Harvard to Join at present on account of the
unsettled conditions at Cambridge: of the holding
in allegiance OF the matter at Annapolis with
favorable inclination. and at Yale. pending the re-
turn OF President Hadley from abroad: of the rec
ommendati ton of the athletic committee to .he fac
ulty Cornell of the advisability of membership
yet unacted upon and of the failure o secure
any statement of Princeton's position. President
Pierce confidently hopes for the enrolment of these
five colleges in another years time and in the
mean time the change of method of selecting the
football rules Coniinttee Is held in abeyance The
method to be then employed is follows:
Article v. Section 1.-The association at it's an
nua convention shall choose committee of seven
to draw up playing rules for the game of football
during the succeeding season. in conjunction with
representative named by the authorized ath-
letic authorities of Yale. Princeton Harvard Cor
nell and Pennsylvania respectively and the men,
bers representing Chicago and Annapolis on the
1907 rules committee
Section II-Of the seven members chosen bv the
association, three shall be elected for three wears
two for two years and two for year at the
annual meeting 1907. Thereafter the election
shall be for terms OF three years the vacancies
occur.
Section III-Nominaions of the committee shall
be submitted at the annual convention by the
executive committee Other nominations may be
made from the floor OF the convention
The membership of the association has grown in
the last year from thrty-fve to fifty-ive institu-
tions. Those who have notified the secretary OF
their intention to be represented to-day are the
Case School, Colgate University. Dartmouth Col
lege, Denison College Dickinson College Franklin
and Marshall College. George Washington Univer-
sity, Grove City College. Haverford College, Ken
yon College. Lehigh University. Miami University
New York University. Oberin College. Ohio Uni
versity, Ohio Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute
Rochester University, Rutgers College Seton Hail.
Swarthmore College, Tufts, Union College Uniyer-
sty OF Chicago, University of Colorado, University
of Missouri, University Of Minnesota University Of
Nebraska, University Of North Carolina University
OF Pennsylvania, University of Texas University
of Woostl Vanderbilt University Washington and
Jefferson College. Wesleyan University. Westnain-
ster University. West Point. University Of Vest
Virginia, Western University Of Pennsylvan1a