New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-27
Game TO Have a Five-Year
Trial, Barring the
Larger ElevenS.
TEAM LIMITED TO
COLLEGE MEN ONLY
Committee Which Recommended
That Sport Be Abolished Now
FavorS Ii Being Restored.

Football will be restored at Colunnb'a
next fall unless q report made oy the
university. committee on student or
CARNATIONS is disregarded by the uni
versity council. TO which IL mas no"
teen referred The report, dated Eco
ruary Il. sud signed unanimously by
the committee. was made public yester-
day. This action on the part OF we
committee vas forecast exclusively IN
The Tribune last sunday.
The committee, which * the const-
tuted body for the regulation o. s
student affairs, reported that footbsl
should be re-established for period
Of FIVE wears under certain restrictions.
II is signed bv Frank d. Fackenthal,
secretary Of the university, and fro-
fessors j. 3. Fletcher, J. 7. Kemp, Her
bert G.. Lord and Walter l. Shelter
1, was this body which recommended
-He abolition Of football in 1905, and
Professors Kemp, Lord and Fletcher
were on the committee ~ That TIME
lnasmuch as II Is unprecedented LOT
the university council 20 disregard the
recommendation Of this committee, ~
seems absolutely certain that tootbaIi
will he restored on Mornlngslde
Heights.
These are the specific recommends
lions OF the committee which the couh-
ell has been requested 10 adopt
Resolved, That intercollegiate foot.
hail be re-estAblished for e trial period
Of I'VE wears. with the following re-
strictions, as sport for students OF
Columbia College who have been IN
residence al least one academic year
and who are not exercising PROBES
sional option:
First The schedule Of games 70
follow the recommendation OF the
university committee on athletics, and
NOT 10 include for the present Har-
ward. Yale. Princeton, Cornell or Penn
sylysnia.
Second Al games TO be played on
college grounds.
"Third-AlI games 20 be played on
Saturdays or on holidays.
.'Fourth-All coaches 10 be on the
staff OF the department of physical ed-
ucation. and 90 be appointed IN tho
same manner as al other academic
officers
"Tifrh Practice periods and the
methods OF training 20 have the @u-
thori7atiou Of the department OF phEsI-
cal education.
">iy,b The board Of student repre-
.cr,a.ives and the alumni federation
On cuarsn.cc the academic authorities
Of the university against pressure on
the part Of the alumni and students
for a modification Of these conditions
within a trial period Of FIVE years
The recommendation OF the commit
zee that the game be restricted TO the
-.udents in Columbia College IS IN
part an adoption OF a report subsu-
,gfed by the student board which petI-
toned for the restoration OF the game.
The recommendation that all coaches
he on the staff Of the department OF
physical education rs departure with
ont precedent i'm the history Of Colum-
hIa athletics. and is based on the sys-
tom gradually being introduced al
Princeton and Williams and already
tried successfully at Wisconsin and
Chicago
The request Of the committee that
the students and alumni guarantee
against pressure Tor a modification OF
she conditions is directed against the
practice, which was common at Colum-
h.a IN the old days Of football, whereby
The faculty was urged and cajOIed into
declaring eligible students ineligible
because OF scholastic deficiencies.
Appended 10 the report or the com
uttee is the petition Of the student
board and n accommodation presented
boy the university committee on ath-
letic', committee made up OF alumni
students and professors.
The students petition makes the
charge that Columbia has been losing
The interest o. is alumni. and for that
oil
mend the college
Zach year says the petition, eve
sre losing good men, the sons and
brothers Of loyal Columbia graduates
and also men in the city and state who
should naturally come here. simply be.
cause We do not have football We sub
NIT az fair examples; " Moore. now 4
noted athlete az Princeton. the brothel
Of Jim Moore. q member Of our crew
NO years ago; II. Fish. jr. Harvard
~, whose father and grandfather were
Columbia men. and who WAS ranked By
Walter Camp as one OF the creates
tackles football has ever seen A more
recent instance rs the brother Of Tee
kiendl, whose history we all know
Young Kiendl viii not choose Columbit
simply because we lack football
team"
The students suggested that th,
Andover system Of interclass games
with one intercollegiate contest at III,
end Of the season, be tried; or as al
alternative that a limited schedule o
games with small colleges be played
This latter is the scheme recommend
ed by tho faculty, and also by the com
mittce on athletics. which suggested
mat no efforts be made 10 play Har
ward. Yale. Pennsylvania, Cornell o
1870. fnr IL Lr.t fnn NnaIs a