Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-18
WITH Tue COLLEGE ATHLETES
Doings in the Field of Sport in East
and West.
FIGHT FOR PURE ATHLETICS
Convention of the /. @. A. A.. of the
United states shows How Fsc1fty
Control wouId Have Avoided
Trouble in sports.

The convention OF the intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association OF the United States re-
Gently discussed many phases Of sport Up
parently without arriving at any very sat
isfaetory conclusions. To those who lis
tened. however, the debaters and the ar
guers appeared to establish one thing
pretty clearly-better control of varsity
sports is decidedly up to the faculties of
the various institutions. Indeed, it might
easily be made to appear, too, that what
ever evils, as they are called. have grown
up are traceable to faculty neglect OF very
pressing problems.
At the second convention OF the Intercol-
leKiate Athletic Association OF the United
States, held in 1907, DR.. Paul C. Phillips Of
Amherst said: Twenty years ago II would
have been considered foolish for a body
Of college professors to consume a half
hour in the consideration of such a sub
ject as the above 0he length OF intercol-
leg1ate athletic schedules). Today the ap-
propriateness OF the topic Is at once APP
parent, for In two decaGes intercollegiate
athletics have ssumed such prominence in
college life as to demand the serious atten.
ton Of educators.
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remote period when matters athletic sell
dom invaded the sanctity OF the faculty
meetings.; we may believe that such condi-
tons should prevail again and the time of
our faculties be once more restored to
them for strictly educational purposes, and
may even plan to bring such an elysium
! about, but that will not relieve US from
the responsibility Of dealing with the ath-
| a~tfo vrahlanna fhQt confront nR here AnC
now"
DIR. Phillips recognition of the duty be,
fore the members of faculties comes late
lust as it did to many other persons in ed
ucationaI institutions. Had there been 4
greater Willingness to take the athletic az
fairs out OF the hands Of trainers. physica
directors and the like, and to make then
more strongly the department OF member
OF the faculty, probably there never woult
have been anywhere near the amount o
trouble that there has been. Faculty inter
yention in the management Of athleti
sports has come in most colleges only whel
some particularly fragrant violation Of tn
code of amateur sport has called to the at
tention OF the authorities the fact tina
theirs is an institution in which sports ex
list and that they are being handled in
way lndA mag W A"hh'AN " 1900
Of the students.
Amateur Definition.
With all respect to Captain Pierce, presi
dent Of the association, and DR.. Clar
Eetherington OF the University Of Mis
souri,, what college sports need most
rot a definition OF an amateur. There
entirely too much Of this scrt OF thin
being attempted all the time. Almost an
persons can agree what is an amateu
He is a man who conducts himself /
sports like a gentleman. That IS an ana
teur and his status has nothing TO d
with money matters at all. But there
something beyond all that. Some COLES
men do not conduct themselves like gel
tlemen. They DO deceitful things and ~
fair things. They shirk their college Worl
which Is what they are supposed TO I
} attending college to do.
! No one better than q member OF II
/. faculty can tell. II he Is the right sort
! man to be entrusted with the educatio
I Ct the young. what sort OF a man he
dealing with. He q tell the honest ST.
dent and the sentiemaniy student fro
the sneak and the professional at hear
There arc many men In college sports WI
have never taken a cent for their Athlet
} proves who are ranker pros than mar
many another man who never saw the q