The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-14
HARVARD'S DECISION TO
 KEEP ON WITH FOOTBALL
BOARD OF OTERSEERS ACCEPTS THE SPECIAL COMMITTEES
 REPORT.

Entire Question of Intercollegiate
 Sports Settled and the Crimson Will
 Contests to be Reduced, Expenses
 to be Cut Down and Professional
 Coaching Abolished as Soon as POs-
 sibIe.
 Boston, March 13.-The long-pending question of whether Harvard would be permitted to engage further in inter- collegiate sports was disposed of to- day, when the board of overseers of the college, accepting the recommendations of majority of the special committee, authorized intercollegiate athletics, though in restricted form. This means that football and other games will be continued at Harvard, as the corpora ton of the university has already &C., cepted the report of the sub-commit- tee.
 The majority report reviewed at length athletic conditions at the uni versity, and paid tribute to the Har ward athletic committee for it's accom- plishment of needed reforms" But the committee thought, and the board of overseers agreed, that the number of athletic contests should be reduced, expenses on intercollegiate games should be cut down, and professional coaching in any form should be done away with as soon as possible.
 The committee recommended that the athletic committee use every effort to secure concerted action with other col- leges to abolish professional coaching,
 A severe condemnation of football is made by Moorfleld Storey, the sole dis senting member of the committee, who presented minority report.
 The recommendation of the majority report are, in part, as follows:
 That the method of selecting the faculty members of the athletics com mittee be changed and that, instead of three members of the university facul- ties, to be appointed by the corporation with the consent of the overseers, the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, the dean of Harvard college and the dean of the Lawrence Scientific school be, ex-otticio, the faculty members of the athletic committee
 That the method of electing the un- dergraduate members of the athletic committees be changed so that these undergraduate may be chosen for each college year during the first week of June during the preceding college year by the majority vote of the following students: The presidents of the senior, junior, sophomore and freshman classes, and representative from each athletic organization which has, during the college year in which the election is held, been permitted by the athletic committee to take part in intercollegi- ate contests
 That tAere be no change in the num- Der or method of selecting the graduate members of the committee.
 That intercollegiate contests be per- mitted, as heretofore, under the super vision of the athletic committee, so con stituted
 That the athletic committee be rec commended to secure the services of some man, who can give his entire time to the work, to act as graduate man. ager and as administrative officer of the athletic committee, to attend to the details now attended to by the chair man of the committee, under the direc- tion of the athletic committee.
 That the athletic committee be rec commended to see that the athletic ex- penses are reduced as far as, in its judgment, they reasonably can be, and that particularly the extravagances mentioned above in this report be done away with.
 That the athletic committee be rec commended to reduce the number of ln- tercollegiate athletic contests.
 That the athletic committee be strongly recommended to use every ef- fort to get concerted action with other colleges to abolish professional coaches"
 The report is signed by Henry P. Walcott, Henry L. Higginson, George B. Shattuck, Moses Williams and Thomas N. Perkins.