The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-10
SENTIMENT SEEMS ID FAVOR STANDING BY PRESENT RULES New Football Rules Indorsed By Southern Intercollegiate
 Athletes Last Night
TULANE IS FORMALLY GIVEN MEMBERSHIP
Iations Better Than Old, Although They Thought There Should
 Re Some Notifications

The seventeenth annual convention of
 the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic as-
 sociation held its first session last night
 at Howard college, East Lake. The most important result of the meeting was the
 unanimous indorsement of the new foot bali regulations with notifications to be proposed.
 The meeting was called to order by President W. l.. Dudley of Vanderbilt | university, who introduced the first speak CT of the evening, Dr. A. P. Montague,
 president of Howard college. On behalf
 or Alabama colleges, Howard college and
 the city of Birmingham, pr. Montague welcomed the prominent educators. He
 took occasion in his address to show how in all times there has been glorihcation of the athlete, and said that in the pres ent day the true athlete is none the less honored
 Tn responding to the welcome address Dr. Dudley stated that the original ob- ject of the association was 10 bring about
 a correlation of physical, mental and
 moral education and that the problems
 that confront the association now are
 not so much problems of muscle and
 hrawn as problems of education. Following the address of President Dud- ley the roll was called, and only four colleges being without representatives,
 quorum was declared and the meet ing proceeded with the reading of the minutes.
 After the reading of the minutes Pres ident Dudley informed the meeting that the experiments made in Atlanta, on the Georgia Tech field, with the Tech team, by the rules committee in association with several southern coaches, had resulted in the suggestion of several new rules to the national committee on rules, and
 that the suggestions had been accepted. Dr. Dudley further informed the mem bers present of a movement to recede | from the new rules and return to the old regulations with certain modifica- | lions. He stated that personally he felt | that the new rules were good, and that
 the games were safer; but called for an
 expression on the part of the members. | The coaches present at the meeting were the first asked for their views. Their l opinion was unusually in favor of the
 new regulations though each suggested | that some notifications should neces-
 sarily be made.
 | Several members of the association next were asked to express themselves | in regard to the practicability of the pres ent rules, and the idea prevalent was | that the games were much more inter-
 esting than formerly, and that, to say the | least, the present system is certainly
 founded on the right principles. On the | motion of Prof. Thomas D. Boyd of | Louisiana State university the following | resolution was passed: While it may be | advisable to make changes in the new
 rules. it Is the opinion of this association | that the present rules are an improve
 ment over the old rules, and it would be
 unfortunate to return to the old regula- | tions."
 The next business of the association
 was to hear the reports from the separate
 districts, which were read as follows:
 Report of the vice president W. M. Riggs, l Clemson College, s. c. Report from the First district, John Norris University of Georgia. Report from the Second dis trict, Thomas D. Boyd, Louisiana State
 university. The report from the Third district was not heard on account of the | illness of Prof. St. George Soussat, by whom the report was to have been made.
 The general tone of the reports was for
 an insistence on clean athletics, and es- pecially on the observance of the regula-
 ton in regard to the certificate of eligibil- | ity, which must be signed five days before
 the student can enter a contest.
 Formal application was made for | membership in the association by Tu- :, lane university through the executive
 committee who favorably passed on the application yesterday afternoon and
 presented it to the members last night. | On the motion of Dr. Boyd, the appli- cation was accepted. On the motion | of Professor Bragg of Auburn with | drawal from the association was grant ed Furman university of North Car olina.
 In addition to the regular members | of the association Professor Throck-
 martin of the Central University of Kentucky was present., having been sent by the faculty of that institution | to investigate the conditions of the as- sociation, prospective to their applica- tion for membership In the S. l. A. A. Professor Throckmartin expressed himself as believing that such action would be taken by his institution ss soon as his report went forward. It was further decided before the
 meeting adjourned that all elections today should be made by secret bal lot. while all nomina tions should be
 made in open meeting. The association will convene this morning at 10 o'clock
 at the Chamber of Commerce.
 Those present at the meeting last
 night were w. D, Chadwick, Missis-
 sippi Agricultural and Mechanical; Ma
 than P. Stauffer, Mississippi univer- sity; Thomas D. Boyd, Louisiana State
 university; H. w. Patterson and w. M. Randle, Georgia School of Tech
 nology; James w. Bell, Mississippi uni versity; w. A. Berry. Howard college;
 Robert l.. Flowers Trinity college Guy s. bowman and Fred G. Stickney Uni versity of Alabama; J. D. Halligan.
 Louisiana State university; w. Hulli- ten, University of the South; J. T.. Brown. Unfversity~of Tennessee; Ar thur M. Miller. University of Kentucky; John Morris and S. " Sanford, Univer- sity of Georgia; w. M. Riggs. Clemson college; Thomas Bragg and B. B. Ross, Auburn; w. l.. Dudley, Vanderbilt uni versity, and Edward T. Holmes and President S. Y. Jameson of Mercer uni versity.
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