Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-07
IMPORTANT RULING or
VIRGIN IA FACULTY.
Adopts Resolution Preventing Foot
4 ball Squad From Playing Other
TX Than on College Grounds.
NORTH CAROLINA EXCEPTED
Thanksgiving Day Fixture Will Be
Staged in Richmond Until Tar
heels Athletic Stadium Is Com
d pleted.

CHARLOTTESVILLE VA. Decemher
s.-Football at Virginia is becoming
much TOO popular. In the opinion Of the
faculty Of that august institution.
which has Just adopted, by unanimous
ture clevens will not be allowed to
play on any grounds except the homo
. grounds of one OF the contestants.
The one exception to the ruling Is in
1*ho case of the game with the Uni
,yersity of North Carolina, which, for
rhetorical reasons and obligations, will
be permitted to continue in Richmond,
Va, on Thanksgiving Day, until North
Carolina shall have had time to COM
plete her stadium, the funds for which
have been donated by Isaac Z. Elmer
son, of Baltimore.
This action by the faculty means,
for instance. that Virginia cannot con-
tinue to play tho University OF Geor-
Sia in Atlanta. the Carlisle Indians in
Norfolk or Washington, Swarthmorc
in Lynchburg. or LehiSh In Norfolk. as
scheduled to take place on the home
grounds of one OF the contestants
The faculty ruling will. perhaps,
prove disappointment to the football
arrangements at the Universities of
Texas, Alabama, Tennessee and Missis-
.
iron slate the past season. have asked
for games with Virginia next year
Texas wants to meet the Orange and
Blue in New Orleans. and Auburn
wishes to play the virsnians in At
anta. Both challenges will have to be
declined. Of course, as the faculty ac-
tion Is final The resolution passed
FACULTY committees two years ago, and
has now been adopted by tho general
faculty, with not dissenting vote.
Follows Precedent.
This step, after nil. Is In Keeping with
precedent all over the country Har-
ward, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and
Michigan have for years operated un-
der similar ruling. Harvard and
Yale used to play at Springfield and
respective faculties stepped In and in
terfered, with the result that the an
Snnal games were played on the grounds
of one or 1.-THE other of the contestants
These games too. attract bigger crowds
than turned out in Springfield and
\ New York, and forced the erection OF
huge stadiums.
Years ago similar ruling was
adopted by the Western Conference
and the Missouri Valley Conference.
The University OF Kansas, for instance.
was accustomed to play her big game
with the University of Missouri In Kan
sas' City. located on tho border line
between tho two States. and half way
between the two seats OF learning.
Faculty rulings changed the order of
things, forcing the contest to be played
ono year at the University of KANSAS
and the ether at the University Of Mis-
souri,. Bigger crowds now attend tho
annual battle than Kansas City ever
furnished
tsr A close follower of the gridiron sport
at Virginia. In remarking upon tho re-
cent faculty ruling. stated that, In his
opinion, 1t would not be many years be I.
Tore admission to the big football
games would be gratis. Those attend
ing. he predicted, would come by in
vitation, thus doing away entirely with
the commercial feature Of the sport
Cancels baseball Game.
at recent meeting OF the executive
committee OF the General Athletic As
ISOLATION OF the university, another
faculty ruling regarding athletics Mt
the university came to tho front In
considering the baseball schedule for
next spring 1t was found that the man.
ager OF the team had booked for one
week more than two games-a direct
violation OF an agreement between tho
medical faculty and former execu-
tive committee OF the association Had
more thar two games been officially
provided for. the medical faculty would
Fave Prevented medical students from
hccon'ng applicants for the varsity
nine. - :
The third apae -in'aucstion-with the
3 university Of Normont--was, there
fore, stricken from the temporary
I schedule.