Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-22
!, A. A, TO CHANGE ITS NAME
Meeting of intercollegiate Athletic
Association to Decide.
NATIONAL GROWTH IS CAUSE
Great Body Considers it Has Out-
grown Present TITLE and Latter
l. Confusing with Another
Association.

held on December % Of this year. may be
the last in which the association is known
under that designation. The announce
ment of the meeting contains the state
ment that the proposition is seriously con-
sldered to change the name to The Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic association" The
reason for the proposed alteration is that
the membership of seventy-one institutions
| last year represented more than 100000
students and AN increased enrolment for
this year will be reported. The association
/ believes that It is national, indeed, in
scope. Furthermore. although this may be
thing aside, the present name has very
close resemblance to that of the I. c. A.
A. A. A., which controls track athletic
sports alone
The meeting which will be held in this
city at a place that has not yet been set
/ tied will be the fifth annual convention.
IL may be recalled that this association
owes its existence to the agitation against
! foot ball begun in 1906 by New York uni
versty. Henry NJ. MacCracken, then chan
cellor at New York university, following
the death of a Union college player in the
New York unlversity-Union game, sent out
a call to many colleges and universities TO
meet to agree to bar the game from their
/ lists of sports.
! Columbia, which then was opposing foot
ball very strongly, added its voice, but,
4 through the example and leadership Of the
Military academy, the convention resolved
itself into one that purposed to alter foot
ball so as to make it safe. rather than to
do away with 1t altogether.
Pierce Important Man.
| Captain Palmer e. Pierce, U. s. A., foot
ball representative then at West Point,
was the strong man of the conference, at
which sixty colleges were represented, and
when It was proposed to form an intercol-
legiate athletic association he was chosen
president. He has been elected every year
since. The association has extended its In
fluence from foot ball to basket ball and
summer base ball, and is looking toward
| track athletics. II is prophesied for the
! association that 1t will be one day what
this country never has had, an organiza-
ton that will exercise a sort Of superyis-
ing control over all the forms of college
sports, although leaving the direct admin
istration in the hands Of the various insti-
tutions.
1t was hard pull to get the really big
colleges in the association. They hung
back, and, as matter Of fact, Princeton
Cornell and Yale still are out. The big
gest thing that was accomplished last year
"e+~ ~ bNN AAoA NaAu 90 q lltAlubEs II Is
thought now that the other big ones will
not long hesitate, because of the influence
Of Harvard's lead in matters athletic and
academic in the college world
At the meeting next month there will be
addresses by the Rev. Charles Aked, D. d.. 4;
I Or. r. TAFT Mckenzie, physical director at
the University Of Pennsylvania, and Prof.
w. L. Dudley of Vanderbilt. gs
Il One of the most important achievements
OF the association was to form a foot ball
rules committee OF seven, which ap-
preached what was known as the old rules
committee, proposing an amalgamatlon.
This was accomplished and with the infu-
sion Of new ideas, suggested by an import
ant body Of colleges, the foot bail rules
we're altered. They went well enough until
1909, when two deaths on the gridlron in
! prominent institutions caused another out
cry against the game. There was another
decided revision this season.
OF the foot ball rules the I. c, A. A. u. 8
announcement says
Rules Under Test.
THE new foot ball rules are now under
going a crucial test on the gridirons Of our
college Fairgrounds Que to the influence
Of this association the necessity for radi-
cal changes was brought home to the rules
it's members made every effort to solve
the difficult problems set them satisfac-
torily, 1t is too early. perhaps, to say
whether or not they succeeded However
this association exists In greater strength
and Influence than ever before and thus
remains an agent by which the work Of this
and other necessary committee may hs in
fluenced and directed. It is urged upon all
that the new rules OF play be given fair
trial. This can only be secured BY the
students being required to play under them
strictly and the officials to enforce I'm
partially the rules in contests. The govern.
ing bodies OF academic institutions should
prevent any evasion Of the playing rules "
AS TO summer base ball and track ath-
{ letics these announcements are made:
THE summer base ball question is still
with us Is any practical progress toward
the proper solution Of this problem beina
nader The subject OF the amateur law Il
now being Investigated in conjunction with
the Amateur Athletic and Research so.
ciety. From this study may result practi.
cal suggestions for guidance In the treat.
ment of this vexed subject. One thing Is
: being accomplished and that is that 1t.
! tention IS being attracted to this sore spot
OF intercollegiate athletics Thus will finally
I result a betterment OF the deplorahIe con.
dtuon now existing. II is hoped that aonne
4 distinct steps forward may be taken at III,
I meeting December ..
Track AthIefscs, Up.
e "The subject OF track athletics-thell
proper control, uniform rules Of partici
pants and method OF preserving records
made-is being considered by a committe,
Of which Prof Stage is the chairman
, The membership OF the L c. A. A. u. 8
is Harvard. Pennsylvania. Columbia, Rut
gers Brown, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Frank
y lin and Marshall University OF Pittsburg
University OF North Carolina, williams
University Of Tennessee, Union. Unitet
States Military academy. Washington ant
I jefferson Miami, Allegheny Colgate. Nor
witch, University OF Virginia, Indiana
: George Washington, Kenyon, Amherst
= New York. Denison. Wesleyan, Lafayette
5 Delaware, Haverford, oberlin. University
e OF Missouri, Ohio Wesleyan. Wittenberg
+ Buoinell. College Of the City OF New York
I state University OF Iowa, University o
Mississippi Westminster, Rochester. Tufts
Northwestern, Pennsylvania State, Niagars
Seton Hail. Charleston, Bates, Lehigh Uni
i versity of Kansas. AIuhlenberg. West Vir