The Washington herald., 1907-01-21
RESTLESSNESS AT HARVARD
Students Complain of Investigators
Slow Work.
Sports at the Cambridge University
at the Present Time Are PFac-
ticaIIy at a StnndstiH.

Boston, Jan. 2O-Harvard's athletic
board met again Friday afternoon, dis
cussed the question of intercollegiate attn
lctics, the questions of competitive foot
BAH and Harvard football again, several
minor quesuons-and began and ended
again al the old starting point Of all re-
cent discussions On precisely what took
place during the conference the members
OF the board observed their usual cour-
teous reticence.
Prof White stated, however. that the
members confined themselves generally 10
the general situation Of athletics in Cam
bridge The special subject Of coaches
for the baseball and football teams was
temporarily neglected. Prof. White sub
Stimulated the general belief that no par
ticular individual was under consideration
for Bill Reds vacant position.
The board is waiting impatlentIy for the
investigating committee Of the oyerseers
and corporations 10 make its report on
the subject Of competitive athletics for
Harvard
The other DAG the athletic board was
compelled TO notify Yale that it could not
renew the usual two-year agreement.
Illuminating as this confession of inability
10 act was. 10 alternative was, under the
existing awkward circumstances, possible.
Fortunately. Yale understood Harvard
position. The letter was formally re-
corded, but date for the usual football
game with Harvard was left open. and
the good feeling between the athletic
heads Of the two institutions was uuaf-
fected. Behind the note was a statement
Of The peculiar local situations in Cam
bridge, and Of the hardness Of the lnves-
tg8uug committee to make its report.
Ii is not believed that this minority. so
long out Of relation with college athletics.
understands the practical side Of the con
troll of college sports sufficiently also TO
understand the necessity Of promptness.
Football, of course. is only one branch Of
intercollegiate athletics In Cambridge
But football may very well serve as an
Illustration Of the necessity for alacrity on
tie part Of the Investigating committee.
The manager Of the eleven, IN common
with the manag gers Of other elevens, be
gins 10 make out his schedule shortly
after the close Of the season. At the pres
ent time, therefore, the football schedules
at nearly all the universities are in the
process Of completion, and the outlook is
clear for the transaction Of numer-
ule. however, is not even embryonic. II is
possible. Of course to make out an in
formal sChedule-tO ask other universities
10 leave open this and that date for Har-
ward. IN the event that intercollegiate
football Will be allowed at Cambridge
during the coming fall.
Yet such a course Of procedure is ex-
tremelv embarrassing.
The next formal meeting Of the over
seeTs is dated for the middle Of February.
Then d month is due TO elapse before
another meeting takes place. BY that
time Harvards athletic situation Will be
in a chaotic condition. Some men there
are in theoretical control Of Harvard
sports at Cambridge who are not at all
backward I'm expressing their evaporation
over the lethargic methods which have
characterized the formal investigation.
Nobody indicts the investigating commit
tee as whole. Reference Is made only
70 the powerful minority