The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13
TO PROBE INTO L.S. U. CHARGES Committee Will Investi-
 gate Fully. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ACTS Dr. Barnwell of Alabama is a
 Member. Dr. Dudley, of Vanderbilt, is Chosen aa President and Some of the
 Football Rules Are
 simpIiaed.
BY N. l.. MORGAN.


 Knoxville. Tenn, Dec. l2.-(Special.l | A committee composed of Chancellor B. Lawton Wiggfns. of Sewanee; Prof B. M. Walker. of Mississippi A. and N. and Professor Barnwell. of Alabama will go to Louisiana State University early in January to investigate all charges of professionalism and other violations of the rules of the Southern intercollegiate Athletic Association The charges of Tulane, Auburn or oth- CT institutions against Louisiana, will be thoroughly probed.
 This committee was appointed and authorized to act at the fifteenth an- nual meeting of the Southern Intercol- legate Athletic Association held today at the University of Tennessee. The committee was raised at the request of Colonel T. D. Boyd. of Louisiana Uni-
 A committee on rules for track ath- ietics was named as follows: W. N. Randle Georgia Tech; Thomas Bragg, Auburn; 5. c. Brown, Vanderbilt. gating rules for the 1909 track season.
 The association reelected all the old officers as follows: President, Dr. dents. W. M. Riggs Clemson; B. Law ton Wiggins, Sewanee; Thomas D. Boyd. Louisiana; c. N Smelling, Geor- gia; Secretary Treasurer. B. T. Holmes.
 For the 1909 football season the rules governing eligibility of players will have the following requirements: uniaeSsisy 3 s1uas 9som GHsS secoSGdsry Sohfs hssS or preparatory school, who can show fourteen Carnegie units to his scholas- tic credit, will be eligible to play his
 NC student viii be eligible to play. regardless of years in college who can not show fourteen Carnegie units.
 No student going from one college H0 Rn0fhAF rARQF0laRS Of WhathAF ha has played on a college team the pre- ceding year or at any other time will be eligible to play on the team of the college to which he transfers until he remains one year the institution"
 For the 1908 season the rule permit ted a student who had attended one of that college to. go to another insti- tuition and play his first year there. The new rules make one years time at an institution necessary for aAy stu dent changing colleges. before becom- Ing eligible to team place. Only students entering on their first year in any college are exempt from the one year rule. This is to prevent imni- grafton of students from one institu- ton to another.
 Sewanee's amendment to permit sec- ondary school students to play ball for pay was adopted after being amended to substitute "boy" for student
 Georgia Techs amendment to define home team" as any one in stu dSht COuuly anu 10 pSEIulL student to play ball on such teams, was adopted on a nine to five vote. Other minor changes were made. prin- cipally to give clearer phraseology to the rules.
 The amendment offered by Sewanee was adopted with the amendment of- fered by Georgia Tech to define home teams" as any team in a players home county. It was necessary for roll call on the latter which resulted g to in favor of the amendment. Those oppos- ing 1t were Mississippi 4. and M., Au- burn. Clemson. Sewanee and Howard.
 In the case of John Myers, of Se- vance. the Executive Committee report recommends he be suspended one year from college sports.
 Dahlonega College and University of Nashville withdrew from the Associa- ton and South Carolina Military Col lege was admitted to membership.
 The association adjourned and will hold its next meeting with the Uni versity of Mississippi at Oxford.
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