New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-21
COLUMBIA SURE TO
REVIVE FOOTBALL
Doubt Dispelled in Minds
of Undergraduates and
Alumni.
FACULTY STAMP OF
APPROVAL AWAITED
General Belief Is That Practice
viii Begin When Opening
Occurs in September.

Football is practically sure TO be
played at Columbia next fall.
This fact, although not admitted by
the university authorities directly, IS
apparent TO any one who spends half
an hour browsing around Morningside
Heights these days. Undergraduates.
faculty members and the occasional
alumnus who frequents the campus are
sU imbued with the same idea, and
there ia no doubt in the minds OF any
that the gridiron game which was aboi-
ished at Columbia in 1905 will be re-
stored to Morningside Heights once
more. To be more specific, football
will be crowned king at New forks
oldest institution Of learning on Sep
TENDER p, 1915.
The announcement made by the UNI
versity authorities or Friday that the
football question had been submitted
20 the university council BY President
Nicholas Murray Butler for considera-
ton and determination Is the most sig
nifoant fact that has come about M
the nine wears OF agitation that has
marked the struggle OF Columbia un-
dercradu.tes and alumni TO have the
game placed in good standing once
more
To make certain that the question
will not be allowed to die in commit
rec" Or. Butler has asked that II oe
brought I'D for discussion IN March
when the council holds one OF its reg
Mar meetings.
Further than that. the faculty Of
Columbia College which has on ITS
hooks the names OF one thousand stu
dcats. al undergraduates, from when
football would derive most OF ITS sup
port so far a. material Is concerned
has been asked to submit the question
10 q committee o. seven which is 20
rsport back 10 the faculty and the fac-
ulty in turn is to report TO the council
The university committee on SUI
dent organizations, the Oody ""'e'
recommended the abolition OF the
,,sne. has already submitted recon
mendations TO the council. and the TACT
that the council has referred the
matter 10 the Columbia College author
ties is taken 10 mean that the recon-
uendations were favorable and that
all the council is waiting for before
acting on them is 70 have the college
faculty stamp its seal OF approval on
them.
The steps whereby the football agi-
tation which stirred Mornlngslae
Heights last fall has been crystalllIed
INTO a concrete plan for consideration
hv the university are seen IN the series
Of papers which President Butler sub
nitted 10 the council The FIRST IN the
series WAS report Of the student
sentiment a. brought out at the mass
meeting in the fall and plan Tor tine
restoration OF football as submitted
hv the board of student representa-
ti,c7 20 the university committee on
student organizations, Of when r. -
Tackenthal, secretary of the unlver-
sity. is chairman.
Tte plan. as outlined by the student
body, was alternative in form and pro
vi6ed either for regular schedule OF
r-au.ts with smaller colleges to begin
carly in the fall, or single intcrcol-
legiate game AT the end of series
Of lntercla-s contests, through which
the various candidates for the team
would he obtained by a process of
elimination. This latter plan Is the
Audoye- system, which has been in
operation at Andovcr for four years
under the direction Of Ted Lillard, the
old Dartmouth football star
When the committee on student or
carnations received this report and
plan II was sent to the committee on
athletics. Of which C. VI Mapcs the old
intercollegiate broad jumper, is chair
man, with the request that recommen-
dations he drafted concerning IT.
Names is a football enthusiast Of the
first water. II is known that DR.. George
l.. Meylan, director Of the gymnasium,
IL also Starch supporter Of football.
The other members include A. D. Alex
ander. '09. who was a factor in a SINH
lar football agitation when in the UNI
versity: W. ". Dryer, 15, and w
Brophy. rs, members Of the student
board. who drafted the first report
These FIVE are a majority Of the COM
mittec, so that II is easy 70 guess "a
TO the nature OF the recommendations
which il sent 20 The faculty committee.
The ununimity Of the alumni with
reference 10 football, as indicated in
the resolutions passed al the general
alumni meeting on Lincoln's Birthday
precludes any doubt as 20 the mind o.
The council when il had its preliminary
discussion of the plan.
All the reports on the subject will
not be in until March 10, and the
council will not meet until a few
DAYS afterward. Columbia will have "a
wait until then for official confirmation
Of the fact that football will be played
on Morningside Heights in 1915. Nc
ono is at all doubtful, however. tha'
the confirmation will be Forthcoming