New-York tribune., 1911-10-15
COLLEGE S0LONS TO MEET
Plans for Sessions of National
COLLEGIATE Athletic Association.

The National Collegiate Athletic Assocla-
ton sent out a call yesterday for its an
nual meeting. which is TO be held In the
Hotel Astor. in this city. on Thursday, De
ccmber 2s Tho first session VIII convene
at 10 o'clock in the morning of that day.
In addition to notifying the various menu
bers Of the meeting. the association also
sent out QUESTIONABLE on college base
ball
The call which is signed by Captain
Palmer +. Pierce and Professor Frank w.
Nicholson. Of Wesleyan University. is in
part as follows:
1t is a pleasure again to inform you that
the National Collegiate Athletic Association
is In a fOu.ishing condition. Evidently the
land arc reaching the hrm conviction that
a nationwide effort is necessary to secure
the best educational results from collegiate
dtnletlcs. II is on this account. then. tnat
the National Collegiate Athletic Association
las grown in membership 10 some eighty
colleges and universities. whose students
number more than one hundred thousand.
The annual meeting OF this association
Will take place at 10 a. m. on Thursday,
December y, 1911, In the Hotel Astor, New
York city. Tho programme includes the
following addresses:
The Military Value Of Athletics TO Ma
ton Major General Leonard Wood, chief
OF staff. United States army.
collegiate Athletics from the Viewpoint
Of tho President OF a University CEancel-
lOr Mccormick. University Of Pittsburgh.
The Influence Of Collegiate Athletics
Upon Preparatory Schools Professor Scud.
der. Rutgers Preparatory school
The afternoon session will include reports
from representatives Of the various dis
tricts into which the United states is dl-
vided, the football rules committee, the
central board Of football officials. the COM
mittoe on track athletics and the committee
on the amateur law
It f. proposed this year 10 hold an even
ing session. at which an opportunity VIII
bt given for an interchange OF views from
representatives of all parts of the country
on topics OF immediate and general interest,
such as the employment of professional
coaches Topics FOR discussion may be suS-
Cestcd by delegates, and the proceedings
Will he informal.
In connection with recent discussions
with regard 10 tho use of professional
coaches in collegiate athletics. the following
resolution, adopted at the last annual meet
ing ~ the National Collegiate Athletic AS
sociation should bc of especial interest.
"It is the sense of the National collegiate
Athletic Association that coaching ana
training be confined 20 the regular members
OF the teaching staff employed hy the gov,
cruiug board of the institution Tor tne l.Hl
academic year. and. further That athleUcs
he made a regular department. or. combined
with physical education. constitute rcEu-
lar department, and receive the same CVil
sideratiOn and hc given cqudl r'SpouSi-
Itlitv and be held 10 tho same accounld-
b1ity as any other department in a college
or university"
II is not expected that all institutions OF
learning will be able TO conform 10 lhlS
resolution Immediately. but it expresses an
ideal toward which all the universities ana
colleges resented at our last annual
meeting feel they should progress. Ihs
removal Of the professional and commercial
eDirit from our college Fairgrounds u one
az the great things this association - stflN-
ing for. ,..t 80,
In Is requested that you give careful con
sideraticn to football developments TINS
IAN We intend 10 send out question:
uaire before our annual meeting Win re- re-
0lsraffon I'm making II Of value. You. OF
course know that this association has IN
fuercod the football rule makers Nery
largely in their work since lg-9. IL pc
hooves us then. 10 give 10 this lInpoF.alt
rodv every possible assistance In the Va
of Information That they have paid heed
10 our wishes in the past Is too well known
10 require comment.