Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-20
CHARGE AGAINST COLLINS
Nebraska Athlete Accused of Having
Received Money for Playing.
LOCAL ALUMNUs HIS ACCUsER
Formal Allegations Filled with chan
ceIIor and Athletic Chairman
aud OFFER 20 submit Proof
IL Made.

Formal documents charging Sidney Col
Inns Of the University of Nebraska with
receiving money for his foot ball services in
the fail Of 1905 at the University Of Ne
braska we're sent 20 Chancellor Samuel
Avery and to the chairman OF the eligibility
committee of the Board of Athletic Control
at Lincoln last night The evidence which
brought forth this action was gathered by
an alumnus Of the university who is living
in Omaha and who formerly was connected
with athletics at Nebraska
The alumnus has in his hands evidence
which he has offered to place before any
investigating committee which shall be APP
pointed by the athletic board, the chan
cellor or the university senate. In the COM
munication preferring the charges imme-
diate action was urged that the name Of
Nebraska be protected from the disgrace
which might attach thereto If Sidney Col
Inns should be permitted to compete in the
annual Missouri Valley conference meet.
which is scheduled to take place at Des
Moines next week.
Paid for Playing Foot Ball.
Collins is charged with having received
nearly $3.50 for playing on the Nebraska
foot ball team in 1908. Some OF the evil
dence which has been procured shows. by
the money, that Collins threatened to quit
the team in midseason unless more money
was forthcoming.
Informal charges are said to have been
filed with the chancellor last week. but the
athletic board has deemed h fit not to push
the investigation of these charges unless
some formal allegation were made in the
matter The communications sent yester-
day from the alumnus in Omaha were ad-
dressed to both the chancellor and the
eligibility chairman for the purpose Of
showing the authorities that the evidence
against Collins is obtainable without any
great effort
The author of the formal charges in
formed the Nebraska authorities that the
evidence against Collins would not be
given publicity II the Nebraska mentors
would take immediate steps to have a
committee carry on an investigation In the
proper manner.
Alumni Interested.
Alumni of Nebraska, living in Omaha,
: are interested in the Collins charges, and
hope the Nebraska authorities will investi-
gate, and, II Collins is found guilty, make
! reparatiOn after the manner OF Michigan
! more than a year ago when Joy Miller was
found to have been ineligible for foot ball.
The Ann Arbor school sent apologies to all
the schools with which its men had played
and forfeited the western intercollegiate
foot ball championship. This example OF
sportsmanship is now held up before the
eyes OF the Nebraskans, and the local
alumni ask that the name of their school
be placed beyond the suspicion of any I'M
cleanliness in athletics.
Sidney Collins, against whom the charges
are made, is concluding his college course
He was a member of the foot ball team FOL
three years, playing center He also has
been a member Of the track squad. He is
the weight" man. In all his events Col
I Inns has been regarded as a star. Last
fall he was unanimously accorded the cen.
ter position on all selections for the Mis-.
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