New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-30
Collegiate A. A. Calls
Football Rules O. K.

and track rules and also TO formulate
swimming meet rules.
An appreciation of the strides Rugby
football has been making IN popularity
on the Pacific Coast was contained in a
paper from DR.. Frank Angel, chair
man of the faculty athletic commit
tee o. Leland Stanford University. DIR.
Angel wrote:
Il should be ungratoful 4 / did no.
acknowledge the service which the
British colonial teams have rendered
us, not only IN populariziug the game
OF football but In demonstrating II as
sport for sports sake. Through
their tours Of California no less than
ln the return visits Of the Californians
TO the antipodes. New Zealand and
British Columbia. we nave been shown
football played for the love of the
game Incidentally. through profuse
and generous hospitality, the colonial
teams have shown us the value of the
social amenities in promoting a sports
manhke spirit IN match games"
Concerning amateur baseball on the
Coast Dr.. Angeles letter said:
Baseball here maintains its posi-
tlOn at the foot Of the list Of sports
I'm manners and morals with a discour-
aging persistency. We have not. in
deco, developed that refined product
Of near amateurism' known as the sum-
mer hotel player. / fear, however,
this cannot be attributed TO our supe-
rior virtue, but 20 the scarcity OF Ing
summer hotels in California"
Percy ID. Haughton, head coach Of
the Harvard football team, to-day ad-
dressed the delegates on Mental
Training in Football"
"lnstead Of taking football player
and teaching him intelligence. as used
10 be the practice, we now take an in
telligent student and teach him foot
ball" he said.
Formerly weight below the head was
an indispensable quality in a football
player. Now the college football player
is a man of average weight, active body
and specially active mind, and the les
sons the game teaches lessons of self
sacrifice, obedience and, above all, pre-
paredness are being recognized Oft the
campus as well as in the final game IN
each college contest
Other speakers emphasized the neces-
sity Of giving educational value 20 sth-
letics and the advisability Of extending
athletic training 20 every student in
stead Of centring attention OH a few.
Reports from the several districts in
the county where collegiate athletics
have received much attention were pre-,
scented. representatives OF Tufts Col
lcge. the University of Pittsburgh. Uni
vcrsity Of Virginia. University Of Ten
nessee, Drake University, Rice Insti-
tute and other colleges giving accounts
Of the progress Of intercollegiate ath-
letics i'm their districts
The convention was attended by rep
resentatives Of nearly two hundred col
leges and other institutions Of learn
ing, and prominent in the groups which
filed the hotel corridors were coaches
of many Of the leading universities.
Football coaches took advantage of
the conference TO arrange schedules.
Representatives of the Big Four I'm
Western college athletics sought TO
prepare the November schedule for Illi-
nois, Chicago. Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. An agreement was made for a game
next year between the University OF
Nebraska and Notra Dame at Lincoln,
10 be followed in 1916 by return
match at Chicago.