Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-19
COLUMBIA STUDENT BODY
AWAITS FOOTBALL VERDICT
Momentous Question Will BE Decided
This Week by New York
Institution.
COMMITTEES is HARD AT WORK
IL Permitted to Revive Game, It Is
Expected That Faculty Will Put
on Heavy Observation-Disclosures NOT
Play Big EIevens.

Nj" YORK, April lS.-The most mo.
nentous Of all questions at Columbia
tball-wiii be decided either for NJ,
against on Tuesday OF this week. when
.hS university council meets to con-
slder The plans presented by the mi
versity committee on athletics ana ~.
faculty committee on student oraanI,.
ions, which have recommended III,
restoration of the game to Morning
side Heights after an absence OF min.
years. o
With the settling Of the uuostior :.
70 whether football will be PLAYED. CO.
iumbia VIII go about the solution NJ IN.
other quite as important question AZ
banning campaign for next fail,
when 1t is confidently believed the nina
and White will have its first elevan
Although the fate OF the game was
turned over to a committee OF the coll
ieSe FACULTY six weeks ago and a renort
requested as to whether football should
We restored under the restrictions laid
down not an inkling of what the fac
nity did ut its meeting late In March
has been Forthcoming.
IL is believed. however that ~ thA
faculty had decided against footbau thk
matter would have been dronned u,han
'he executive committee OF the council
met last week to prepare a proeramn,A
Tor Tuesdays session. That such AZ
ton was not taken Is attested nv tbe
fact that the discussion of football ia
al fnN -
council. >e
There seems to be little doubt IN
the Mornin6sdo Heights campus that
mat the long period Of football starya.
tion Is about to be brought to an AND
and as result plans have been matur.
.us quleliS Tor quick resumption OF
the game on as ambitious scale as is
possible under the restrictions i'm
posed.
II can be stated definitely. however.
mat nothing has been done in the way
or selecting coach for next season
nor toward the scheduling OF anv
games. This will he taken care az nv
inc committee on athletics, which has
meeting on Tuesday night, quite by
accident"
Under the rules set down for the
restoration of football the coach will
be salaried officer OF the univarsitv
ana VIII get his appointment for the
department OF physical education His
assistant, too, will be named by that
department. so that Columbia believes
.nat II VIII have settled once for ALI
the coaching problem. The coach will
undouhtedly be professional, but he
VIII be amenablo to University controI
AT all times, and when he Is not busy
with the football team he will have to
! occupy his time with other teams.
AS 10 the schedule. it is believed
that Columbia will have little Difficulty
IN arranging games with the class or
colleges with which it desires to play
next year. Among these arc said to
DC Union. Amherst. Wesleyan, New
york University, Trinity, Hamilton and
Springfield Training school
II football is re-establshed IL can
safely be said that no opponent more
advanced than Amherst or Williams
VIII be tackled until the second year.
Although Harvard, Yale, Princeton
pennsylvania and Cornell FRO barred by
the restrictions, Columbia believes that
1t can find plenty of teams TO keen II
fuiiy engaged during the five year trial
period.