Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
What The College Athletes Are Busy At

through several years of activity have
become leaders in their respective sec
tions.
At present 1t appears to be the plan to
induct directly into the association all
the colleges in the United States. These
are to be enrolled under the district man
agement. In the case of some states that
would make a tremendously cumbersome
body. Taking a grouping that includes
the middle states, it would be almost
impossible to count all the colleges that
might be brought into the association
and well-nigh as hard a task to govern
them we'll
In addition II would mean breaking
many affiliations formed long since and
n general unsettling of the athletic situa-
ton in the colleges. 1t seems a much
better scheme In a general way, then,
to act as has been suggested by a man
interested in college athletics. Let the
new association for the beginning do
nothing more than form alliances with
the intercollegiate Association of Amateur
Athletes of America, a body about forty
years old; the Western Conference Inter
collegiate association, some years estab-
lshed; the New England intercollegiate
Athletic association, the two southern
Texas and Southwest association and the
many others that. taken together pretty
well control all of sport in the American
colleges.
Anliating with these and later, IL pos
sible. making them tributary TO an as
ISOLATION which plans more and hopes
for, more than they do would be a slightly
better scheme. II appears to the writer,
fhan nf la
1t would get somewhere and would ar
rive with less trouble at the proper end.
For instance, there would be no difficulty
in afiliating and exchanging treaties, so
TO speak, with the intercollegiate Anna
teur Athletic Association of America, and
thus coming into direct relations with
Harvard, YALE Princeton and Cornell,
which have thus far stood aloof from the
worthy new association. The alliance
would be possible with little trouble Tho
same thing might be done with the other
associations. Later they might be in
duced TO act as sectional heads for the
intercollegiate Association of the United
States, and then the whole aim of the
new league will have been accomplished
without breaking up old associations and
without friction.
At the present time the new association
numbers only one of the old Big -Four
in it's membership. That is the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. To succeed the
big colleges must be had. The best and
easiest scheme is by making alliances
with established bodies.
There Is situation in the college row
ing world that has called itself to the
attention of many, no doubt, rather
strongly since Edward Hanlon Ten Eycl
was named coach OF the Wisconsin crews
that is. that his father, James A. Ter
Eyck. is coach OF the Syracuse crews
and that. Furthermore, James ir. is likely
10 be the stroke OF the Syracuse varsity
boat this year, he was Of the Orang'
freshman eight last June at Poughkeep
sic. So that IL is not only father agains
son. but brother against brother, In TIT
college rowing game IL will be amusing
and interesting TO see II Lazy Ed, as Jim
senior. sometimes calls his bigger son
will beat pop out at Poughkeepsie. I
often happens that the scholar outstrlp'
the teacher and the man who won tn
diamond SOULS at Henley may be able L
teach rowing better than his father. Hell
have 70 so some. though, 10 do IL.