New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-21
COLUMBIA AT
LAST LIFTS BAN
ON FOOTBALL
Blue and White to Put
Team on Gridiron for a
Five-Year Trial.
UNIVERSITY COUNCIL
GIVES ITS CONSENT
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cor
nell and Pennsylvania Must
Not Be on Schedule.

MOI BE OH SCHeuuiS.
Columbia College will play football
next fall.
Final action restoring the game on
Morningside Heights, after a period oil
ten years of hoping and waiting, was
taken by the university council yester-
day when it met to consider the recon-
mendatons Of the university committees
on athletics and student organizations.
The question WINS carried without q
dissenting vote. II was this same body
which decrced the abolition of football
on Morningside Heights in December
1905.
In adopting the findings Of the com
mittees which recommended the res
toration Of the game the council re-
vised the first restriction and put an
absolute prohibition on games with
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania
and Cornell. Inasmuch as the restora-
ton is for trial period OF hve years
only, however, he ban probably Will be
lifted from these teams at the eXpira-
ton of the time.
This is the official report issued by
the secretary of the council after the
meeting:
THE formal vote of concurrence OF
the university council with the recon-
mendation Of the university committee
on student organizations, passed at the
meeting of the council on April 20,
automatically re-establishes lntercol-
legiate football at Columbia.
1.-THE committee on student organiza-
tons was prepared to reinstate the
game, and so reported on February H.
1915, but the action contemplated was
so important in itself and so far
reaching in effect that the committee
preferred to have the concurring opln.
ions both Of the college faculty and OF
the university council before putting its
plans into operation.
"As the college faculty voted ailirma-
lively at its meeting on March 10, the
action of the council gives the COM
mittee the desired support, and inter
collegiate football will be played by
the students of Columbia College in the
fall of 1915.
Resolved. That intercollegiate foot
ball be re-established for trial period
of five years, with the following re-
strictions, as a sport for students OF
Columbia College who have been IN
residence at least one academic year
and who are not exercising a PROBES
sional option:
al. The schedule Of games TO follow
the recommendation of the university
committee on athletics and not to in
clude Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Cornell
or Pennsylvania.
40. All games 20 be "layed on college
grounds.
"9. All games to be played on Satur-
days or on holidays.
a. All coaches to be on the staff OF
the department Of physical education
and to be appointed in the same man
ner as all other academic officers.
80. Practice periods and the methods
Of training to have the authorization
of the department of physical educa-
ton"
Although the vote of the council was
not unexpected, the actual restoration
of the game sent enthusiasm on the
Columbia campus up by leaps and
bounds last night, and there was a
monster celebration which fairly
rocked Morningside Heights.
The football which the faculty has
restored is not exactly the football the
students wanted, but it will enable
them, they believe, to put team on
the field against such colleges as Dart
mouth, West Point, Annapolis, SYRIA
cuse, Amherst and Williams among
others, and there are plenty OF hard
games in prospect.
Offers from some fifteen or twenty
colleges to play games with the Blue
and White next fall have been pillng
up in the athletic office.
Letters also have been coming in
from men desiring to coach.
More than three hundred Undergrad
yates have bound themselves to report
for the team next fall, and one thou
sand have pledged financial support.
BY the restrictions put upon the
sport Columbia will be able to play
only on its own grounds in New York
or on the fields of opposing teams.
This will bar the Blue and White from
using the Polo Grounds for its big
games. II has been estimated that
stands to seat $4,000 can be erected on
South Field, while Columbia Oval, in
The Bronx, can accommodate 10000. II
necessary.
Ii is believed that the return OF foot
ball will hasten the construction of the
proposed stadium on the banks Of the
Hudson River at 10th Street.
The restriction placing the coaching
staff directly under the university
authorities is intended to bring to
Columbia a man like DR.. A. II. Sharpe,
of Cornell, or Fred DAILY, of Williams,
who. in addition to coaching football.
will have charge of basketball and