New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
Many Facts Of Interest
Brought Out in Reports
Read Before Delegates of
National Association.

Many facts of interest in the world
of college athletics were brought forth
TO public view when the National Col
legiate Athletic Association met for its
annual business session at the Hotel
Astor yesterday afternoon. After a
morning spent in listening TO the dis
cussion Of the ideals of college sport
the two hundred and moro delegates
heard in the afternoon what had been
accomplished and what was being &C
complished in athletics throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
II was learned that four colleges in
New hgland-Harvard, Yale, Dart
mouth and Brown-paid their football
coaches annually $4,000 or more, while
/ four others paid their football instruc-
tors less than $1,000. All told in IF
teen New England colleges the cost Of
athletics mounts TO the total of 1884,
/ 900, and in one Of them alone reaches
the enormous figure of S142,0O0.
4 And despite these seemingly large ex-
penditures, which at the morning ses-
/ sion we're condemned as being unideal-
istic, Professor +. \. Whittier, of Bow
/ doin College, representative of the New
| England district, reported that condi-
/ lions in that corner of the union were
.
/ that there was a more direct approach
70 the highest ideals than ever before.
/ More students participate in athletics
/ in these colleges now than in years
gone by. and there is by and large a
more wholesome atmosphere, fostered
20 a greater or less degree by the Asso-
citation Of New England Colleges for
/ Conference on Athletics.
The n. c. A. A. itself is in a more
fourishing condition than at any time
in its ten-yesr history. It's membership
is nearly FIVE times what it was at the
time of its establishment, and il fin
ished the year with balance Of SS853O
Its expenditures were S1,709.24, and its
receipts were S2,594.54.
A peculiar state of affairs was re-
ported as existing in the fifth district
long dominated by the Western Con-
ference. Lewis Omor read the report
Of Dean T. T. Holgate Of Northwestern
University, showing that the war be-
tween the Federal League and the
forces Of organized baseball had caused
a peculiar change in the relationship
Of college athletics and the general
public.
Tired Of the baseball strife, the pro-
fessional fans Of the large centres OF
the West turned 70 the intercollegiate
competitions last spring for their
amusement. and the result was that the
college teams received more publicity
than they had ever received before.
/ This publicity is not particularly de-
sirable 70 the colleges, but it 10 n stu
alton in which they find themselves
wellnigh powerless.
As 20 summer baseball, the North
western professor pointed out that al
though student sentiment was over
whelmingly in favor Of permitting stu
dents 10 play summer ball, the con-
ference itself had voted 20 sustain the
rule, and even went 80 far as to abolish
baseball as a college sport. This latter
decision, however, will not be effective
unless II IL ratified by the individual
faculties. Although athletics are max
ing increasing demands on the time OF
! the student and are Increasingly popu-
lar, the evils which were pronounced in
the past arc gradually disappearing.
For the colleges Of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Viz.