The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-27
MANAGER EAGER
HAS NEW PLAN
Nebraska Athletic Leader
Favors Plan to Give the
Alumni Charge

LAncoln. Neb.. Jan. 27.-Alumni
control OF all intercollegiate athletics
as the cure for all evils that now both
or the minds of the faculties of the
country Is the latest advancement
made in this section of the country.
Manager Earl q. Eager. who has been
IN charge of the University of Ncbras-
IA athletics for five Years, and who
before becoming graduate manager
was a prominent football player at this
school. is the Gather of the new idea,
Manager Eager is certain that the
present baseball question will never be
settled unless the members of the
alumni of the various schools are per-
mitted to conduct the intercollegiate
contest. not only in baseball but also
in all other sports.
by the plan Matched i'm the mind of
me CornhuSker manager an alumnus
from each school in the Missouri wall
ley conference would he selected to
represent his school in Il body mo
cred to make rules for the playing of
intercollegiate contests. The present
oody OF faculty representatives would
be done away with entirely.
The honesty and high minded auali-
ties OF the alumni delegates, Manager
Eager asserts. could he relied upon to
make the new organization one char
actoriZed by fairness, high purpose
ana unprofessiDpal tactics. Each
member would .be. interested in keep
ing the intercollegiate sports clean and
would agree on rules that would pro-
mote better spirit among the various
teams. These men could so regulate
the games as to nave only men malt
lied ny scholastic standings eligible for
the contests. The sole eligibility
clause would not be only scholarships.
There would be other regulates, but
scholarship would probably he the
thief requirement., as many now he
licve it should be the sole qualification
for participation.
such a body. having the good Of in
tercollegiate contests at heart. and
working only to raise the level of the
games would not stoop to any base
methods. it is believed. They also
would be free from the narrow views
81 the professor. who. no matter how
liberal he wishes to be in his attitude
toward the sports must I've. in some de-
gree. ruled by tho thought of what
Tn" other members Of the faculty
think.
Members of the Nebraska faculty
VINO nave been interviewed or this
new suggestion, are frank to admit
that the present system OF governing
the games is at fault. They also agree
that this system is imperfect because
the faculty men are unable to get
away from their views of sport as pro-
lessons. They are not broad enough
in their ideas.
There is some question as to wheth-
err alumni members would he too lib
eral. Whether the new system would
be practical. however. cannot be told
before it is tried. So Manager Eager
is anxious to have the new plan given
q try-Out for three or four wears. IT
is suggested that the boards of regents
at the various schools in this section
agree upon the plan and ask the pres
ent conference body to dissolve itself
for two or three years. giving the
regents Il chance to appoint a board of
alumni members to draft now rules
and regulations for governing the in
tercollcgiate games in this section dur
ing the neXt two years.