The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
FIGHT IS MADE
/ ON BASKETBALL
Schools of the State Demand
Fiye-Year Rule for Col
lege Sports.
RESULT WILL BE BREAK
In ATHLETIC RELATIONS
University Decides to Live Up
to the Regulations of Rocky
Mountain Conference.

Whether the university will have any
bask etbali games with the Utah teams
this wear is matter which at present
rests largely with the other schools of
. the state. 1t has always beeu the Gus
tom In Utah to allow men to play in
the intercollegiate series for six years.
This was done because both the uni
versity and the B. 7. U. of Provo had
preparatory schools in connection with
The college work and hence many of
the students were kept In one school
for seven years Now that the uni
yersity has joined the Rocky Mountain
4 athletic conference, the school is re-
stricted by the conference regulation
to four-year rule; that is. no player
. is permitted to compete in the confer
euce for more than four years and no
school is permitted to play against 9th
er schools not having these eligibility
rules,
.s One concession was made TO the unit
versity. permitting games with the Agrl,
cultural college, If the Aggies would
comply with the four-yea rule in foot
ball and also the oncycar residence
rule. The Aggies agreed TO come up
to this rule in order to got games with
the university this year. but in the
intercollegiate basketball conference
held recently il was decided that since
d six-year rule had always been In
vogue IN the state, cut of one year
was sufficient and that fve-year rule
would be maintained in the state this
year.
No Further Concession.
In order to he able to play with the
Utah teams under the present rules, the
university would have to ask for an
'other concession on this point from the
+ Rocky mountain conference. This the
athletic council at the university re-
fuses TO do on the ground that enough
coucessions have already been made
Then, too, the university takes the stand
is all right.
Another point that makes the unlver-
sity particularly anxious TO have the
four-ycar rule adopted in Utah is the
fact that this year not single player
an any of the schools would be barred
under the four-year ruling. In Provo
the list Of men for this year is largely
r new one and the same condition OBJ
,tains with The Aggies and the 3. Y. c.
.of Logan.
If the Utah schools do not decide to
adopt the four-yesr rule the university
will be out of all state basketball
games this yenr Already the athletic
council has authorized the coach and
lnanager to arrange schedule with
/ the Colorado schools. Coach Fred Ben
niou is planning ON tenday trip to
colorado in February, In addition to
these games, the varsity will have u
game in salt Lake with the University
|0f Montana.
Good Prospects.
Over the prospects for players Ben
nion is elatcd Never has the univcr
sity had better line Of basketball
,uen, OF the old men there are Hors-
+fal, Romuey, Evans (capta:n) Holm
stead and Erickson Horsfal has
played on the university team for two
years AS center and is in good shape
TO hold HIS old position Evans and
Romney, who played forward last year
Captaiu Holmstead played guard on
the team last year and was always con-
'spicuous for the number of baskets he
could land on the side, Erickson is
a swift, tall man, and is easily one of
the fastest guards ever seen in the
state
Besides the old PLAYERS there is Paul
. who played center for the 'scrubs -
last year, "OtH Romney of Salt Lake
high school, and Jacob from Provo. who
will be eligible TO play during the Sec
ond semester
Eennion is planning on having a Sec
pnd team which will be in the city
league in games with the Y. M. c. 4.
second team, Fort Douglas teams. the
National Guard and others. The fresh
}qen will be members OF the Salt Lake
division of the state high school
league.