Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
GEORGETOWN WILL HAVE NEW
FACULTY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Father Emmett to Resign at End of Present
School Year-Father Creedon Will Be
His Successor Other Gossip.


lines because of the fact that they had
the judgment to make change at the
right time. 1t was a fact that made
Haughton of Harvard famous when he
sent in kennard to take the place OF
Yer Wiehe and he kicked the goal from
the field which beat Yale. There have
been many other coaches who at differ
ent times have Won games by making
just such changes at critical moments
AT that 1t requires q great deal of nerve
on the part of coach to take a man
out Of the game who has been tried and
found true, to place a player in his posi-
ton who Is generally unknown guam
THY. but almost without single exception
whenever the move has been made it has
been a success. Whether or not it is
because the new man under the stress Of
excitement really accomplishes more
than he is naturally capable Of or wheth-
err it is because he is fresh and the oppos-
ing men are jaded, is a question, but
whatever the reason. il has generally
been the case that when a coach has
substituted a man at a critical moment
he has made good and apparently under
very adverse circumstances.
When Ciallaudet faces the Young Men S
Christian Association basket ball team in
its own gymnasium next week, It is not
likely that the association lads will find
it easy a matter to get away with tie
Kendall GreenerS as they did last night
| in the Y. NJ. c. A. gym. Cnfamuiarity
with the floor and the different rules
worked against Gallaudet to a considera-
BILE extent. 1t was the first time that
| Gallaudet has ever played under the
Amateur Athletic Union rules and that
| fact worked much against its players
who were unfamiliar with the differences
between them and those embodied in the
! intercollegiate code. The Y. NJ. c. A.
| team to play on that has not been used
| to one Of the kind. 1t is larger than
the ordinary gym and the floor is much
| more slippery than is generally found.
Those facts aid the home team to a
great extent. Gallaudet will be corre-
spondingly favored when it gets the Y.
NJ c. A. five in the Kendall Green gym
| nasium and under the intercollegiate
rules.
That St Johns should cancel at the
to be regretted by the Hilltoppers, as it
was to have been their last game before
the holidays and it was needed to round
out the system Of practice that has been
given the team during the past two
weeks. The game with st. Johns will
be played when the schedule is begun
again after the holidays.
When asked as to whether or not he
intended to coach next year, Fred Nell
sen said that he had had little time
since the last season ended to consider
any plans for the future, and 1t was
impossible to say just what he would
There has been a great deal of contro-
versy which has arisen from the different
interpretations placed on the rule passed
at the last meeting of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union relative to the allowing of a
college athlete to compete for clubs dur
ing the summer months The rule refer
red to is as follows:
"A student representing university
college, school or other educational in
stitution, must consider such institution
his residence for the purpose Of registra-
ton to represent such institution in COM
petition. Such student between June 1
and October 1 may transfer his registra-
ton to club or other organization be-
longing to an active or all ed member of
this union located In the district of his
actual residence, and upon the opening of
the scholastic year he may re-transfer to
his educational institution"
In regard to the differences of opinion
that have existed the president of the
the rules and gives his opinion as to what
it really means in the following:
I'm my opinion this paragraph means
that a member Of educational institu-
ton, IL he takes part in open athletic
events ii. E., events requiring a sanction
from the A. A. U, and thereby the regis
tration of the athlete with the A. A. ID,
must elect as to whether he shall repre-
sent his educational institution or his
athletic club during the period from Oc-
tober l to June 1, and that IL he elects
to represent his educational institution,
his residence for the purpose of registra-
ton shall be considered that Of the place
where such institution is located. And
further, and most important. that when
he has made his election he must stand
by the same and cannot transfer his
representations from his club to his edu-
cational institution until the opening OF
new scholastic year the following Oc-
tober. or from his educational institu-
ton to his club until after the close OF the
scholastic year on the first of the follow
ing June, unless it happens that he has
actually severed his connection with the
educational institution by graduation or
otherwise. If the athlete has elected to
represent his educational institution dur
ing the scholastic year, he Is also privi-
legged after June l to transfer his repre-
sentation to the club which he Is other
wise qualified to represent. Under the
paragraph referred to, an athlete would
not be debarred from open competition
either because he did not desire to repre-
sent his educational Institution or was