Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-28
COLLEGE EXPERTS TO
DECIDE ON FOOT BALL
Fifty Declare for the American
Game to Intercollegiate
Association.

NEW YORK. December ns-The execu
tive committee of the Intercollegiate
Athletic Association of the United States
met last night at the Murray Hill Hotel
ax a preliminary to the fourth annual
convention to be held today. One all
nouncement of Importance made was that
Columbia had become a member of the
association. This means that the asso-
citation now has fifteen of the twenty
four largest institutions of the country
I'm its ranks.
Prof F.. w Nicolson of Wesleyan. sec
rotary of the association. gave out a list
of sixty-folr colleges that are members
and thirteen others not members that
will send visiting delegates.
The association recently tried to find
out how the college faculties OF the
country stood on the subject of foot ball
and letters were sent to lot of them
asking their views. The letters, however
did not call forth expressions of opinion
from Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Cornell or
Dartmouth, hut there were some others.
rather big ones, Which declared III favor
of the game.
Just one Institution, Union College of
Nebraska. was of the opinion the game
should be abolished. Butler College had
a tie vote as between changing the game
to eliminate dangerous plays or abolish
ing H. FIVE small Colieses Weie VI inc
opinion the rules were all right. They
were: Franklin and Marshall, Drake.
Oklahoma. A. & NJ, Davis and Elkins
College and Southwestern.
The list of those of the opinion that
the rules of the American game should be
retained but changed that mass or
other plays Of unusual danger to life and
limb be eliminated included Pennsyl-
vania. Chicago. Minnesota, Syracuse.
New York University, Swarthmore. Union
and Vanderbilt. The others of the fifty
colleges In this class were: Bates Col
lege, Beloit College. Bethel College. Bow
doin College, Central College, Coe Col
lege. Connecticut Agricultural College,
Dickinson College, Paramount College,
Furman College. Geneva College, Haver-
ford College. Heidelberg College. Hobart
College, Union College. New YORK; Uni
University of South Dakota. University
of Tennessee, Huron College, Iowa Wes-
leyan University. Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. Kenyon College. Lehigh UNIVERSITY
Northwestern University, Occidental Col
lege, Ohvet College, Ouachita College.
Parsons College. Southwestern Presby-
terrain University, Tufts College. univer-
washington College. Washington and
Jefferson College. Washington and Tuscu-
lum College, Waynesburg College, Yank-
ton College.
seventeen colleges expressed the OplLAou
that the game should be superseded by
English rugby or soccer. Stanford,
which already has rugby, is one of these.
The others are: University of Colorado.
Washington and Lee. Wheaton. Santa
Clara. St Bonaventure, Roanoke, Knox
willie, Hiram. Adelphi, Brigham Young,
Friends University. McMinnville Middle
bury, Missouri State, Ottawa and Ran
dolph- Macon.
There are some others that thought
English rugby should be substituted only
IL satisfactory changes are not made in
the American game. They are Allegheny,
BuchteI, Holy Cross, Montana State. Ohio
Wesleyan. Pacific. Pratt, Washington
University and Willamette. There is still
another class which believed the game
satisfactory, except in minor details. but
thought that unusually dangerous plays
should be prohibited. Indiana, Mullen
berg. Penn State, Polytechnic College.
South Dakota, University of the South
and Washburn are In this list
Thus the opinions OF Lightweight COL
Ieges. some Of them of no small impor-
tance, have been obtained on this sub
ject.
An interesting feature of the program
for today is that as soon as the papers on
the assigned subjects have been read the
convention will be thrown open for a
general discussion of foot ball. The ses-
sion will be public and 1T Is thought this
will provide most interesting part Of
the session.