The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-09
STIRS BAD BLOOD
At UNIVERSITY
Football Criticism ProvokeS
Storm of Explanations
and Comments.
RESPONSIBILITY Is SHIFTED
SEELEY MAKES SIZZLING REPLY
TO ALLEGED STRUCTURES.
RESPONSIBILITY is SHIFTED
The Point of View.

The Point of View.
= For the opinion in that article. =
/ isaac Russell, under whose name IL y
appears. is solely responsibIe-Pro-
IeSsor = W. Reynolds. editor OF the y
Educational Review in an address to +
y university students
= 1t was a purely academic discus q
= sion OF football ethics and was writ +
= ten at the solicitation Of Professor y
= Reynolds.-lsaac Russell in an inter >
= view with The Herald.
me day should be on its way 10 :
: sunset when groups OF students Will 4.
: gather each fall in glee and whisper ?
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has arrived.-Quotation from Mr. {
= Russelrs article /
: with regard to the athletic hobo D
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= several other slurs from the pen of 1
e this esteemed AR. Russell. and which +
were directed at MI COavill and 3
= myself. would merely remark in y
= passing that l have been bitten by +
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The faculty of the University is not {
= responsible for personal opinions ,
y stated in signed articles IN the Edu- 4
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The athletic turmoil at the university
which at a time Thursday threatened the
disbanding Of the football team and the
resignation of Coach Joe Maddox was
partially patched up at a meeting of the
students yesterday morning Today the
team will go into the game with the Az
ricultural college as though nothing had
happened which tended TO shatter their
chances to win on the eve of a cham
piOnship battle
One source of trouble was the fact that
certain professors had declared some of
a I4nrf1,
without giving the men a fair chance
TO make UP the work that they had missed
on the California trip. The matter seemed
SO unreasonable to the men that they
unanimously voted that if such a ruling
was carried out against the men Satur-
day they would disband the team Dr.
Sundvall of the eligibility committee ap-
peared before the students and straight
ened out this difficulty by explaining the
stand of his committee and answering
some misunderstanding that had arisen.
Article Starts Something.
The other matter which caused the
greGtest dissension and which placed Mr..
Maddox in an uncomfortable position
was the appearance of an article in the
Utah Educational Review, which was
particularly uncomplimentary to Coach
Maddox and several Of the players. and
was interpreted as a deliberate knock on
athletics in the university. The men took
this more to heart because the Review
WAS a paper winch mas on lL5 cover 'RuD-
lished under the auspices of the Uniyer-
sity of Utah. and also because such an
article had to pass through the hands OF
university professor, who is the ed
tor
Although the students were extremely
indignant at the beginning Of the meeting
at the appearance of the article, their ire
was soothed somewhat by little talk by
Professor F. W. Reynolds who is editor
of the paper IN part he said: For
articles that appear In the Review, the
author under whose name it appears is
solely responsible II is absurd to hold
the faculty of the university for them
With respect TO Mr.. Russells article Oh
athletics, in so far as the responsibility
belongs to the faculty 1t belongs to the
editor who permitted the article to pass
over his head The editor is of the opln-
ion that the pages of the Review should
be open to the opinions of college men
If those opinions are significant. and II
they are expressed with interest and cOur-
tesy to others. Publicity is a good thing.
and if the athletics of the university will
not stand publicity they are imperfect.
Mr.. RusselFs opinion is typical OF opin-
ions that exist in certain quarters. As
expressed in newspapers their sources are
indefinite, here the source IS clearly
marked. If they are wrong and II state
ments are made which are not facts they
can be corrected. For such corrections the
pages of the Review are open. The Re
view is not designed as a crutch for any
lameness at the university.
For the opinion in that article Isaac
Russell under whose name ii appeared
IS solely responsible. That statement holds
for any article that appears under name.
Faculty Gets Busy.
In the meantime the faculty was in spe-
cial session passing resolutions freeing
them from the responsibility Of the afti-
Gle so that between the two meetings
the blame attached to the publication Of
the article was shifted from the. univer-
sity campus to the shoulders of the au-
thor This explanation seemed to satisfy
most of the students and the trouble blew
over. The faculIys little contribution to
the soothing party for the students was
In the form of two motions which follow:
The faculty of the University of Utah
is not responsible for personal opinions
stated in signed articles in the Utah Ed
ucatiOnal Review.
1.-THE faculty of the University of Utah
is satisfied with the work of Coach Joe
Maddox in athletics.
Isaac Russell, author Of the article in
the Educational Review which precipi-
tated the trouble at the university, says
ii was written at the solicitation of Pro-
lessor Reynolds. editor of the publica-
ton.
1T was purely academic discussion
of football ethics" said Mr.. Russell, land
was not intended to reflect on any par
ticular team or Individual 1t was not
designed for the perusal of students. but
for teachers. among whom the Review
circulates. 1t was merely a coincidence
that the article appeared at a critical
time in the football season"
The concluding paragraphs of Mr.. Rus
sells article are given below:
Faculty supervision. 1t seems to me. is
properly rigid only when il reaches to the
point of seeing that every. man on the
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