The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
COACH MADDOX
TALKS ON REFORM
Freshman Rule All Right in the
East, but Works Bad for
the West.
COLORADO TRIPS COSTLY
HIGH RAILROAD RATES FOR IN
TERSTATE GAMES.

The University of Utah football eleven
will leave Thursday afternoon for Colo
Tado for the game with the Colorado
School Of Mines Oct. %. The trip OF
over go miles is being made for this one
game. on previous occasions when the
University has gone TO Colorado il has
Played no less than two games. This
was done on account OF the great expense
attached TO such a trip. and by playing
TWO games ana getting the guarantee
from the two schools it was possible to
pay the expenses of the trip.
This year, however, only one game could
DC secured on account Of the athletic
scuabble in Colorado which resulted in
some Of the schools there forming league
and adopting the freshman rule. In speak
ING OF the matter Saturday Coach Joe
Maddox Of the University Of Utah said:
Inc turn OF events IN athletics the
past year In the Rocky Mountain district
places the athletic situation in this dis
trict In such a position that before long
Il will have to revert itself into one OF
two directions. All institutions IN this
district will either have 10 bar fresh
men, graduate and other first year stu
dents from taking part I'm athletics, or
there VIII have TO be two separate leagues
formed.
Cannot Cope With East.
LAS the situation stands at the present
time, there are d few schools within the
Rocky Mountain district which are try
ug to cope with the larger institutions
Il the east in that they insist on bar
ring all freshman students from Compel
ing during their first year IN college. Iney
a.sO would prohibit any student from
taking part IN athletics during his first
year at college, whether he be a fresh
man or an upperclassman. This same
movement will also eliminate ali gradu-
ate students from taking part in ath-
leJlCs, whether or not they have had any
previous training
Il am not saying that the above pro-
posed reform would not be d good one,
bat / am rather inclined 10 believe that
the schools of this Rocky Mountain dis
tTiCt are TOO small and the attendance
Is entirely too much limited to have such
rules in force at the present time.
AS the conditions now appear here in
the west they are somewhat different
from those in the east In the first place
the large eastern schools which impose
the One-year rule nave a much larger
attendance of men who remain in col
lege throughout their entire four years
course while here in the west the con-
ditiOns differ somewhat, in that the boys
usually attend school one OF two years
and then drop out and work a year or
SC in order to secure enough money to
take them through the remainder of their
course. As d general rule the western
boys are called upon to do more work
at home than are the eastern boys. There
seems to be more work to be done and
in fact many western men figure that
their boys can gain more in the finan-
Cial world by staying at home than they
could do by going to college.
TAs an example, take the School of Mines
Of the University of Utah. That depart
mi ent of the state university draws stu
d5nts from the east who have had their
academic training and come to "a western
school to study mining engineering in
mining country. If graduate students
were barred it would put d ban on using
those students without any apparent
good cause,
These are some Of the conditions which
will come up for settlement during the
coming year and the Rocky Mountain
district should take care not to allow
this frenzied reform wave to strike too
hard.
Heavy Railroad Rates.
There is another condition which may
loom up soon if it continues to grow, and
that is the ever-increasing railroad rates.
Five years ago Utah could send her ath-
lstic teams TO. Colorado for $3.50 each.
From that the price jumped to $3.50
each, and now the railroad people Will
look you straight in the face and demand
$50 per ticket, $ per man for Pullman,
and when the expensive diner service is
figured in with hotel bills and inCiden-
tai expenses, the team of eighteen men
must have at least $3.50 before it starts
on a strip into our neighboring state,
Colorado.
.'StiH some people wonder why more
Colorado teams do rot come to Utah. 1t
now costs Sl,100 to bring the University
of Idaho team to Salt Lake. 81 20 to
bring a California team to this city and,
unless some rich people can assure the
University of Utah athletic council that
they will back US up financially in bring
tc be content with conditions as they are"
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