New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-15

Tho University Of Michigan F'ootpaii
Association is already planning an eiao-
CRATE campaign OF preparation Tor next
autumn in view Of the Harvard gains ~
bs plaved at Cambridge on OCTOBER 81
Ala recent meeting of the candidates 10
d,scuss the hardest schedule that the
Wolverines have ever attempted Dlieo'o,
! Rartelme talked on the necessity OIL ai'
the men seeing to their scholastic eHsi
bilitv. Trainer Farrell spoke OF the prep
aration that the Michigan athletes wouio
have 10 make TO meet team or har-
wards calibre on equal terms.
Thu Michigan trainer expressed himself
az far from satisfied with the attitude OF
the football men toward developing them-
| selves to the greatest extent. lie al
vanced in support OF this the fact that the
veterans on the squad never put IN an APP
pearance at the gymnasium In the winter
but they are satisfied with the CONDITION
they can attain with the fall training
alone.
He said that Harvard men train all win
ter and summer. and if Michigan does not
want to be disgracefuiiy routed In mel
first clash with the peer of Eastern uni
versitles her athletes must show some OF
this same spirit
| The veteran trainer Dad Moulton'
who recently resigned as track and field
coach TO the Leland Stanford University
SQUAD. has accepted a similar position
with the University of Santa Clara
|
| Spring baseball practice has been I'M
der way at the University Of Virginia
for several weeks. a squad of more than
forty candidates is training daily on the
varsity field. under the direction OF Coach
lack Ryan, Of the Washington American
League club.
The colleges and universities Of the
Pacific Northwest are planning the Tor
nation of an intercollegiate soccer
! league.
A movement has been started at Har-
ward University the object OF which Is
70 award suitable letters or emblems to
the substitutes OF the various varsity
teams who do not succeed In winning
varsity letters by being sent into the big
contests as relief players for the first
string men. 1t is pointed out that these
substitutes are Of great value in the de-
velopment Of the teams, acting noth as
trial squads and substitutes, as the oc-
caaion may demand. THE Harvard Grim
son" in an editorial on the subject states:
The rules governing athletic sports at
Harvard contain the following provision:
Such substitutes on the baseball and
football teams, or crew, as shall be des-
| ignated by the captain OF the team or
crew, and approved by the graduate
treasurer. may use the letters III. a. A
80 far as we know no insignia has
been granted under this rule. At present
the baseball or football substitute classes
neither with the first team nor the sec
ond. and though OF more ability than the
second team man who wins an 'H2nd.' re-
ceives no recognition; the member OF the
second four-oared crew, in spite OF work
inc down to the eve of the race with
Yale. receives none-a condition very
evidently unfair
I'VE beg. then. 10 suggest that sepa-
rate insignia for substitutes be estab-
lished I'm each sport-perhaps III. F. in
football. II. b. in baseball, II. L. b. c.
as formerly in crew. and II. III. r. for
since hockey has asconded TO seat
among the majors il should be included.
! The form OF insignia is detail. how
ever: Of real Importance Is a material
recognition OF some sort for the substi-
tute"
At recent meeting OF the Yale Uni
yersity Athletic Association several Inn
portant changes were made In some of