The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-11-12
MISS DAILY REPLIES
Holds Her Position Oh Foot
ball Is Unchanged.
GIVES REMEDY FOR THE EVIL
Would DO Away with the Grand
stand and Send All the Boys Into
the Field-CIaIms This Feat Has
Been Successful in Concord, n. IL.
Quotes PRINCIPALLY Action.

Miss Ida n. DAILY. president of the
High School Teachers Association. In an
interview yesterday, defended her posi-
ton in the football controversy.
In replying to the statement Of high
school principals in The Washington Her
aid yesterday morning. Miss DAILY said;
MY position in the matter Of football
is as stated in the article criticised. II
is the inter-high school feature OF the
game that ought to be abolished, stand
taken by DR.. Arnold werner-S panhoofd,
the head OF department Of modern Ian
guages Of the high schools. in an address
read by him before the High School
Teachers Association. May 16. 1907, which
was approved by the association and or
dered TO be printed"
Miss DAILY declares she sees only one
remedy for existing football evils. She
says:
Gives PInn OF Remedy.
do away with the grandstand and
send all the boys into the field. This
feat has been successfully accomplished
by one Of our great boarding schools,
st. Paurs. Concord, n II. This school
never competes with other schools. but all
boys play.
with DR.. Spanhoofd. I believe the
game Of football should be played FOR the
love OF the sport, not for the sake OF
winning at any cost. The playing should
be confined within each of the schools.
as has been done in the case of the
girls basketball. and am assured by a
letter Just received from Mrs. Walton,
director OF girls physical culture, that
the girls are playing the game with in
terest. although the inter-high school fea-
ture has been abandoned. l should like
TO see a gymnasium. a swimming pool, an
athletic field, for every high school"
Miss DAILY then proceeded - answer her
opponents who laugh at the suggestion
of the slaughter OF the innocents. She
adds: 1T IS proof OF the brutalizing
effects OF the game that they don't know
slaughter when they see IT,"
Miss DAILY quotes an extract from a
typewriter report OF action taken by
the principals az a meeting held on
April % last. concerning the counting
of advisory marks in the eligibility of
football players Il follows
Examination of Athletes.
Agreed that there shall be established
uniform procedure relating TO exami-
nations Of the deficient athletes.
Agreed that one of the rules OF the
athletic advisory board should be revised,
so as 10 enable a student who Is repeat
ing a subject 70 play. provided his ad-
visoTy marks show satisfactory work;
also. that any student failing 10 show
satisfactory advisory marks shall be in
eligible until work is satisfactory"
The principals notified the faculty
advisers Of their action last spring" says
Miss DAILY This autumn they sent =
letter 20 the faculty advisers directing
them to incorporate the above rule in
| their regulations. The letter is IN the
hands Of one Of the faculty advisers. pre-
sumably the chairman. The faculty adj
visers turned down the recommendation
or the direction Of the principals two or
three weeks before the Tech-Western
game. Under what regulations were the
schools working from the beginning Of
school until the action Of the faculty ad-
visers? The pupils were entitled TO know
] The principal OF the Technical High
( School notified the pupils OF the agree
ment OF the principals. Under what rules
! we're the other principals working
Since the faculty advisers turned down
1 the agreement Of the principals and did
not substitute any other regulation, then
! legally. according 10 the reasoning OF the
opponents, the old system was in force.
/ However, the Tech-Western game was
played by both schools on the advisory
mark basis. the deficiency being marked
off by special examination at the sug-
gestlon OF Miss WescOtJ. The president
OF the board OF education upheld the
/ principals in maintaining the advisory
mark. Where did that decision gets its
legal authority II the principals agree
ment went for naught? The previous