Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-22
INTERCOLLEGIATE
MEETING DEC. %
Football EuIes, Summer Baseball
Track and Field Sports
to Be Discussed

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-The annual
meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic
association of the United States when
will be held on December 20 of this
year may be the last in which the as
sociation is known under that deslg-
nation. The announcement OF the
meeting contains the statement that
the proposition is seriously considered
to change the name to the Natlonal
Collegiate Athletic association. Inc
reason for the proposed aIteratloh -
that the membership or seventy -oliS
institutions last year represented more
than 100000 students and an increased
enrolment for this year will be re-
ported. The association believes that
it is national indeed in scope. Further
more, although this may be a tnlhg
aside, the present name had d very
close resemblance TO that OF the l. y
A A. A. A, which controls track alh-
letic sports alone.
The meeting, which will be held IN
this CITY at a place that has not yet
been settled, will be the fifth annual
convention. It may be recalled that
this association owes its existence TO
the agitation against football begun IN
1906 by New York university Hehry
NJ MacCracken, then chancellor at N,
Y. u, following the death OF Union
college player in the n. Y. U.-Unlon
game. sent out a call to many colleges
and universities to meet to agree 10
bar the game from their lists of sports.
Columbia, which then was opposing
football very strongly, added It's voice.
but through the example and leader
ship of the Military academy the con-
yention resolved itself into one that
purposed to alter football so as to
70 than To do away
with it altogether.
Cant, Palmer e. Pierce, q. S. A,
football representative then at west
Point was the strong man OF Inc con-
ference at which sixty colleges were
represented, and when it was proposed
to form an intercollegiate athletic as
sociation he was chosen president He
has been elected every year since. The
association has extended its influence
from football to basketball and sum-
mer baseball and is looking toward
track athletics. 1t is prophesied Tor
the association that it will be one day
what this country never has had' an
organization that will exercise a sort
| of supervising control over all the
forms of college sport, although leav-
! ing the. direct administration in the
hands of the various institutions
BIG SCHOOLS HANG BACK
] IL was d ndGu pun " e5Ob SAiS lOc'AiS
big colleges in the association They
! hung back, and, as a matter of fact,
Princeton Cornell and Yale still are
out. The biggest thing that was ac-
cOmplished last year was to get Har-
ward as a member. 1t 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.. DIR. r. TAFT Mckenzie, physical
director at the University of Pennsyl-
yania, and Prof. W. L. Dudley of VAN
derbilt.
one of the most important achieve
ments of the association was to form
football rules committee of seven,
which approached what was known as
the old rules committee, proposing an
/ amalgamation. This was accom-
| plished, and with tho infusion of new
ideas, suggested by an important body
of colleges, the football rules were al
/ tered. They went well enough until
/ 1909. when two deaths on the griaircn
/ in prominent institutions caused an
other outcry against the game There
was another decided revision this sea-
! son.
/ OF the football rules the I. G. A A.
! U. S. announcement says: "The new
! football rules are now undergoing q
! crucial test on the gridirons OF cur col
| Iege Fairgrounds. Due to the in1lu-
ence of this association, the necessity
| for radical changes was brought home
| to the rules committee, and it cannot
/ be gainsaid that it's members nado
every effort to solve the difficult prob
! lens set them satisfactorily. 1t is too
early perhaps to say whether or not
they succeed. However, this associa-
ton exists in greater strength and in
fuence than ever before, and thus re-
mains an agent by which the work of
| this and other necessary committees
may pe influenced and directed. 1t is
urged upon all that the new rules of
play be given a fair trial. This can
only be secured by the students being
required to play under them strictly
and the officials to enforce impartially
the rules in contests The governing
bodies of academic institutions should
prevent any evasion of the playing
rules"
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