New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21
BASKETBALL PUT
ON HIGHER PLANE
College League Passes
Resolutions Barring
All Freshmen.
VALE SPONSOR FOR
CHANGE IN RULES
Columbia and Penn VIII be
Worst Sufferers as Result
of Action.

Basketball virtually was maze
major sport in the colleges OF the has'-
ern intercollegiate League, comprising
Vale. Columbia. Cornell. Pennsylvania
Princeton and Dartmouth. by the ac-
ton of the league taken yesterday a'
it's annual meeting.
Tho conference was held At the hote'
Irrorial and resolutions barring
freshmen and restricting eligioiiity 10
UNDERGRADUATES in general were passed
without a dissenting vote. Columbia
did mot have a representative on hand'
Gespitc the fact that Lewellyn ROD
,rts the Columbia manager, had noti-
fed the league officials that ne wouiu
be present 49,.
Tho resolutions which cause drastlc
changes in the eligibility rules OF 'ns
league were introduced by the execu-
tive committee of the league as lo'-
lcws:
"No freshman shall be eligible 10
,enresent his institution in lntercoIle-
giate League games.
ono student shall be eligible TO rep
resent his institution in lntercoilegi-
ate League games until he snail naIe
been in residence one tulI acaue
year. e.. from September TO june
Inclusive. or from February to reoru-
srv The summer session shall nov De
included in the calculation OF an aca-
dcmlc year. ,..L - van
,oso,t bis institution in the lntercolle-
oiate League who has had three years
Intercollegiate competition IN any IN
st;.ution in any sport. This does not
onnlv TO competition on freshman
teams. II, J..,oo
,cnrcsenting four years work, nor an!
student who is not an Undergraduate
hall be eligible TO represent ms lhsO'
tuition in any intercollegiate League
Yale stood sponsor for the lim!ta-
tons on freshmen. despite the lact
that the Blue had two irst-year men
in Taft and Kinney. on the team Wnich
captured the intercollegiate cnamp,Vu
chin II is understood that the blue
contcmpatos raising basketball! 10 lhe
rcalr1 OF major sport, and for TINS sea
con oosires to have the rules OF ell
oibility conform with the requirements
for other major sport teams. rem
svIvania becked the resolutions on the
,ame ground. Princeton supported tho
Chanee as a matter Of general athletic
policy. as did Dartmouth.
I. is problematcal as 10 how 'olum-
bia would have voted. although It IS pc,
loved that the Blue and White woul
have opposed the idea in no uncertain
terms. as il has IN the annual meetinN
in the past, at which the same propo-
sition has Deen presented.
Ry barring freshmen and limiting
nIaying 10 undergraduates Columbia
will find itself compelled TO draw It's
men from Columbia College. the aca-
dcmic department Of the university.
Rurghard. Walker and Calder. OF this
years team, the three veterans VINO
will be left after Dryer. Benson ana
Lee have been graduated IN june Will
This will leave only Kornsand and
Wilber. both second substitutes. from
whom 10 pick a leader for the 1910
season, and it will mean the declma-
ton of the Columbia squad, so that the
Blue and White will have TO start from
the bottom 10 build up its team. In
effect there will be applied TO Coium-
bia the eligibility rules which Colum
Tia has set for itself IN the event thsV
It takes up football again.
As to the other institutions, fenn-
sylvania will lose the services OF stu
dents in the Wharton School OF Com
merce and Yale will be prohibited
from playing students who switch over
to the Sheffield Scientific School. In
other words, only students in the aca-
demic or undergraduate engineering
departments of the colleges in the
league will be allowed TO compete
The league ratified new financial
agreement. and began the task OF
drawing up a schedule for next year.
In the absence of the Columbia repre-
sentative this was next 10 impossible.
and schedule committee, consisting
Of Ralph Morgan, of Pennsylvania, sc.
rotary of the league; Haskell Noyes, Of
Yale. and Joseph ". Cannon. OF Dart
mouth, was selected to meet in Phila-
delphia next week.
Those present al the meeting were
G.. F.. Kent and G.. VI. Stevens, of Cor
nell; r. A. Burlen and J. w. Cannon.
of Dartmouth; J. 5. Lansill. o. A. Wales
and L. Morgan, of Pennsylvania II. F.
Vandewoort and Dr. J. +. Roycroft, Of
Princeton. and c. H. Roberts, j. c.
fIopr,,, L Ct,ctnolo apd III \ovoa