Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-14
PENNOY MAKES SOME CHANGES
Proposes to Have Only Men in Collie.
giste Department on Team.
IN LINE WITH MANY OTHERS
Yale, Harvard aud Princeton Already
Have the RuIe I'm Vogue, BARRING
Men from Professional
Departments.


brought face TO face with a problem which
has been before II for q long time Dr.
Carl Williams a foot ball authority at the
university and one who has frequently
been chosen TO represent It in foot ball
councils, has offered a resolution that none
but students of the college department
shall be eligible to the foot ball team.
In the past Pennsylvania has permitted
men from the medical veterinary. dental
law and graduate departments to repre-
sent the university on the foot ball field
This has been one Of the principal reasons
why the red and blue lost it's games with
Harvard, Yale and Princeton, where the
rules have been much more stringent in
recent years
To secure a game with one Of those in
situations 1t has evidently dawned upon
some Of the Pennsylvania men that they
must make their eligibility rules corre-
spond with those Of the other large eastern
universities.
II is true that at the start It may seem
a hardship yet there is no reason why
Pennsylvania, with its large student list
should not be able to put a good foot ball
eleven in the field from it's college, as
other universities do.
Were a foot ball eleven to be sanctioned
at Harvard from the university and not
from the college alone there would be a
tremendous field Of eligible men afforded
to the crimson Harvard has got away
from that. So have Yale and Princeton
II Pennsylvania comes into line and takes
similar action the way will be paved to
open negotiations with some success for
more foot ball games for the red and blue
in the east.
Making no light OF the players person.
ally, Pennsylvania often has been joked
because some Of its foot ball men were
representatives Of the dental school. and
some representatives OF the veterinary de-
partmnt.
1t is not denied that both departments
are in their way a capital adjunct to the
university. but it has been too liberal in
its latitude as to who should represent the
college colors on the field
Special departments OF universities are
under faculty jurisdiction, but It has been
a foot ball tradition that II Is college"
game, in spite of the fact that some years
ago there was a little too much laxity in
the enforcement of a strict college atmos-
phere
Changes In the Highlander.
Mitchell, Foster and Hughes go to the
Rochester club from the Highlanders, and
Channel and Priest to Indianapolis.
Rochester certainly gains for with the
addition Of some players some of the gaps
which were opened in the playing strength
Of the Eastern league champions by the
transfer of players and the draft win be
well filled
IL ChannelIs leg is thoroughly mended
| he should be capital outfielder for Indi-
annapolis and Priest is an infielder who
can stand a little seasoning in a minor
league before hea-is brought into the big
ring.
( The Highlanders do not seem to have
lost in strength, for they have fortified the
positions which those players would ordi-
narily help to fill.
Foster is a fair infieder, but not a steady
batter, and seems to fall off a bit in hot
weather. Mitchell was a little slow behind
the bat, and Hughes, while he pitched ex-
cellent at times, did not seem to have the
stamina necessary for a hard fought game.
CHANNEL did so well during the brief
period with which he played for the High
landers that he finally seemed to have out
grown his minor league clothes, but he.
too, is something of a problem in view of
that bad fracture which he received in one
| leg sliding to bases last year.
CnrtmeII May Make = Trip.
Athletes will follow with much interest
the work of Cartmell, the admirable run
ner who was once OF Pennsylvania. II he
decides to make trip, which he has out
! lined, to other continents
! He IL thinking OF going to England ia
compete in the events which will be open
there, and from England will travel to
South Africa where he is anxious TO make
a match with, Reggie" Walker. There If
no doubt that huge crowd would turn
out in the Transvaal to see Cartmen and
Walker in a race.
From South Africa it is Cartmelrs in,
tention to go to Australia and compets
against Charles e. Holway, the New Eng.
land runner who holds the sprint cham
pionship in the Antipodes. A series of in.
ternationsl races OF this character would
be one of the most interesting chapters OF
events OF its kind that have taken place
in athletics In years.
About So.
| Albert Southington wishes to know why
the last man to roll for a bowling team Is
/ called the anchor. It's about like this: "A,
is expected to hold the good ship STEADY
when storm assail and to be good work.
ing ballast when the brcezes are fair.