Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-16

dent body. All the other members are
from the faculty and the university's
board of trustees
In this connection 1t seems odd that
Pennsylvania should be wiling to Grip
pie herself athletically when Yale plays
both Harvard and Princeton under what
are practically the same rules as Penn
sylvania now has. Yale would not be die
tated to by Harvard or Princeton. and 1t
remains to be seen how far Pennsylvania
Will CO. Pennsylvania has heretofore
boosted that she fosters athletics for the
entire student body and not for par
the movement to keep graduates out of
undergraduate athletics but since both
Yale and Pennsylvania accept students
in all departments on nearly the same
party that they should restrict their ath
letics to the academic department
Little Tinkering With Foot Ball.
From the expressions delivered by the
various members OF the intercollegiate
foot ball rules committee, 1t is evident.
that the rule makers at their coming SEES
sion propose to make as few changes as
possible. 1t is a fact that virtually every
member of the committee has definite
ideas of the changes that ought to be
made. but they are mostly of minor i'm
portance and are not likely to be pressed
hard. Nearly all the members Of the COM
mittee consider the old adage Of not dis
turbing a sleeping dog. They know that
they made most of the 1910 changes be-
cause Of threats and they don't want to
tinker with the rules again under such
conditions.
IL the rules are left for another year as
they now stand it will be primarily to
give them a longer time to demonstrate
their worth. 1t is felt that one year is
not enough to test the radical changes
made q year ago, and that they should
have at least another season on trial.
The one feature of the 1910 game which
nearly all the foot ball solons wish to
examine more closely Is the forward
pass. This play was not an unqualified
members of the committee 1t has as
many opponents as ever. At the COM
ing meeting of the committee, to be
held probably in February, testimony
will be taken concerning the successful
operation of this play. Although there
are some who contend that the play
should be abolished altogether, it is not
likely that the committee as a whole
could be led to see the play in this light
Therefore the chances are that the play
will have at least another trial.
Big Colleges Won't Join.
At the last annual convention OF the
National intercollegiate Athletic Asso-
citation efforts were renewed to secure
the membership of Yale, Princeton and
Cornell, the only big institutions in the
east which have not joined. Cornell had
previously been asked to join and de-
clined Now the Itnacans have declined
a second time Neither Princeton nor
Yale has taken any action in the matter.
Harvard and Pennsylvania. are the only
big colleges in the east which have
Joined the association.
1t Is hard TO understand why these
other big universities persist in holding
aloof from the association. which is the
only one OF its kind In the country try
ing to correct the evils of college ath-
letics This association has already
brought about much-needed changes in
foot ball, and is now trying to find rem