The San Francisco call., 1909-04-03
AGREEMENTSIGNED
BY CATHOLIC
COLLEGES
ST. Mary'S and Santa Clara Are
Bound AfhieticaiIy for
Five Years
By Win Scarlet

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made up. For many years these two
nice little girls have been making
faces at each other and sticking out
their dainty little tongues and singing.
you Can't Play in My Back Yard
Any More" But now they have settled
their squabbles. which. after all. were
but tiny tempests in timer teapots. and
they are going TO play with each other
for five years straight.
Articles OF agreement signed between
the.athletic associations of Santa Clara
college and st. Mary's college declare
that the Catholic colleges will engage
regularly hereafter in athletic con-
tests. Not only Will the two baseball
teams meet. but the athletes OF both
colleges will clash in friendly rivalry
in football and field events. And to
cinch the matter definitely the arrange
ment will hold good for five years.
This happy termination of years Of
misunderstanding and pickering about
trifies has been brought about by two
faculty members Of the opposing COL
leges. Father Stack OF Santa Clara and
Brother Joseph of st. Mary's came to-
gether this week and threshed out the
difficulties in the way OF an amicabIe
adjustment of the athletic relations be-
tween the two institutions The result
of their conference is embodied in a
formal document signed by the author
tiles OF Santa Clara and St. Mary's. This
document is an athletic agreement
somewhat similar 10 that existing be-
tween Stanford and the University of
California.
Father Stack and Brother Joseph
have done their work Thoroughly and
We'll. and have hit upon measures like
ly to insure perfect harmony hence
forth in the relations of the colleges.
The agreement makes the arbiter of in
tercollegiate athletic disputes. not the
FACULTY members nor the student body
nor the athletic associations. but a
special committee whose rulings must
be accepted both at Oakland and Santa
Clara
This committee. invested with pow
ers both executive and judicial. will
be known as the committee OF seven.
II viii consist of three ST. Mary's
graduates. three Santa Clara graduates
and one member to be selected by the
other six. This arrangement will in
sure square deal all around and pre-
vent the possibility OF a deadlock.
The six committeeman thus far
chosen are: BY St. Marys, Hon. b.
j. Flood 81. Louis H. Ward '95 and
Peter J. Mccormick IS. BY santa
Clara, w. II. Humphries 80. Robert
Mckenzie '06 and John A. Kennedy.
The seventh member of the commit
tee viii be chosen in the course of a
few days.
a four cornered track meet is al
ready planned for early June, in which
st. Mary's. Santa Clara. Sacred Heart
and ST. Ignatius colleges are to enter
contestants. Besides, the crack base
ball teams of Santa Clara and St.
Mary's will meet In a series of three
games before the close of the present
season. This is an event for which
the fans viii sigh, as both college
teams have given drubbings innumer-
able to Stanford and California
The outsider finds difficulty in un-
derstanding why the two Catholic coll
leges have failed to meet each other
oftener on diamond and track 1t has
simply been a case of neither side
wanting TO give in TO the other in
matters that were always trivial and
often irrelevant. Santa Clara and St.
Mary's are friendly rivals, but in their
past athletic relations their rivalry has
been more apparent than their friend
Iiness. The committee Of seven, thanks
10 the efforts of the faculties of both
colleges, will now be able to regulate
college spirit and to direct and con-
troll student loyalty. The outcome OF
1T all viii be a series OF annual ath-
letic contests which will rival the in
tercollegiate meets of California and
Stanford in interest and in excellence.
Some of the Misunderstanding here
tofore existing between Santa Clara
and st. Mary's hinged upon the eligi-
| bility of contestants. The articles OF
agreement drawn up by Father Stack
and Brother Joseph preclude all pos
! sibility OF dispute on this score. The
shower bath course" If It ever did
exist, can now exist no more, thanks
to the dehniteness of the following
rulings.
No regular student taking less than three hours
of college work daily shall be allowed 10 com
pete in any intercollegiate contest
No special student-that Is, one not following
a regular course or class-Shau be allowed "a
compete during his first year at college.
No graduate employed teacher or Instructor
or engaged in any other than student work shall
be eligible TO compete.
/ No graduate student shall compete for more
than year
! No student shall be eligible to compete unless
| he be in actual attendance by october 1 OF the
college year in which the competitions take
/ place.
| A student entering college By or before October
] and thereafter leaving college during his first
| four months shall make himself Ineligible foT
competition for the remainder OF the school year.
A student leaving ST. Mary's To enter Santa
/ pete against his former college for one entire
/ year.
No student shall compete for more than sir
years.
No person shall compete who is not an amateur
according TO the ruling OF the Amateur Athletic
association of America.
No person whose name does not appear on the
certified list hereafter provided fer shall be
permitted 10 compete