The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-14
MINI. dakota
ATHLETES CONFER
MINNESOTA DAKOTA INTERcoL-
LEGIATE CONFERENCE WILL
MEET AT ST. PAUL I'M DEcEM-
7ER-MANY INTERESTING MAT.
TIERS TO BE DISCUSSED.

Grand Forks, N. d. Nov. 14.-Prof.
z. F. Chandler, faculty manager Of
athletics and president Of the Mime
sofa Dakota intercollegiate Athletic
conference, will shortly issue a notice
calling for a meeting of the conference
to be held in st. Paul Immediately
after Christmas.
Many interesting matters are on
the docket for discussion. some of
them being entirely new questions.
! Whlle In other instances antiquities
or uncertainties in the Interpretation
OF the present eligibility code will be
settled. Among these are questions
( as to scholarship requirements and
the amount of class work that ath-
Ietes must carry successfully: as to
length OF residence necessary with
reference to students who have mi
grated from one college to another:
as to allowing members of college
team playing also on semi profession
al teams during the college year or
In vacation; as to the number of in
tercoHegiate contests that each col
lege try to schedule; as to the adyis-
ability of holding a spring track meet
for teams representing the colleges in
cluded in the conference.
Other topics more general I'm ma.
ture in the cid Of athletics viii ike
wise be discussed. Some decision
will be reached on the desirabilitv az
making the conference a formal or
ganization with some limited authori-
ty, or continuing In its present scope
as body without formal authority,
but whose recommendation shall
carry equivalent weight when, as last
year, they are nearly unanimous.
The first meeting of the faculty
conference was held last December
and full report of the action taken
at that time was published. Every
coliese IN Minnesota and the Dakotas
having four-year course, and show
ing activity In intercollegiate athletics
was included in the conference, facuI-
~ representatives being present from
the following colleges: Minnesota
carleton college, Hamline university.
Manchester college and st. Olafs coll
lege; South Dakota-Dakota Wesley
an, state science school at Huron. agri-
cultural college, state university and
Yankton college; North Dakota-Far-
go college, agricultural collele, Univer-
sity OF Moth Dakota. On account of
It's greater enrolment the University
OF Minnesota is another class, hav-
Ing conference relations with the great
universities of the central west Some
OF the minor colleges, not having a
four-year course, are welcomed to the
discussions but are not entitled to a
vote on questions arising from the
OF four year colleges. Most
Of the intercollegiate games and ath-
Ietic contests participated in by these
colleges are with other colleges also
included. Hitherto there had been no
general understanding among the coll
eges regarding rules and other es-
Sential matter, and it was the intent
N organizing the conference that
inanimity of purpose in athletics and
! general understanding between the
colleges should be promoted
The chief result of last winters
meeting was the drafting of a code
II eligibility rules which were
recommended by the con-
erence for adoption by the separate
colleges, and which We're at once
adopted by practically ALL The code
vas not complete, for the various col
eyes are in different circumstances
md each feels the need of special adj
litional rules that would not be uni
'ersally acceptable. Some Of the
colleges with preparatory schools In.
.luded feel obliged to use the prep
Lratory students on their teams: 9TH
RS have no "preps," or they are not
included on their college teams. Agri-
ultural colleges with their many
hort-term students and few students
t long attendance are situated diff
erently from classical colleges. In
act no two colleges seem to be III
recisely the same condition. necessi-
ating some mutual compromises.
Last year the following standing
ommittee was appointed to arrange
he business OF the conference: Il. n
University of North Dakota.
hartman; M. S. Kent. Carleton col
sge. and AL H whitmore, afterwara
by s j. Plpal University
I South Dakota.