Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-02
FUTURE OF INfERCdLEGiATE
 WILL BE DECIDED.
Association Will Discuss the Value Of
 Sports in War Time.

The future of intercollegiate ath- letics during the will be decided at a meeting of the Collegiate AthIe- tic Association, which will be held t Washington today. Major Palmer Pierce, president of the association, will probably outline the attitude of the War Department toward college athletics as part of the preparedness
 It is understood that the War De- partment favors the continuance of athletics during the war. College ath- letes have responded with splendid spontaneity to the call to the colors. This is true especially of the larger Eastern. universities.
 At the declaration of war the au- thorities in charge of athletic contests celled all of their important athletic meets. They felt that the holding of big football games and contests of that sort would seem .incongruous with the war calling for athletes. Also, the best athletes of the Eastern col leges responded to the first call
 The entire Harvard football team of last year is in the service. Yale ath- letes have responded quite as freely. Tn fact, few of the Eastern colleges have retained any athletes Of military age.
 That the football schedule of the present year can be restored is ob- viously impossible But the result of
 
 justment of the athletic schedules for next year and the introduction of new spirit into college games.
 Attitude of Vale.
 As to Yales attitude at the con ference in Washington, a writer who can speak authoritatively for that college says:
 No hope of establishing intercol- legiate athletics this fall is felt at Yale, as a result of the convention of the National Collegiate, Athletic As sociation, which will begin in Wash formulated at a recent meeting of the Athletic Council Is to have all the sports possible for the undergraduates who are still in college.
 But as one of the members of the council said yesterday: You can't make bricks without straw, and you cant play sports without athletes We haven't a single member of last years athletic team who is coming back into college this fall. We haven't a single person who was associated with sport in a competitive role who will be again in college. We see no chance for continuing sports.'
 At Yale the opinion is felt that Harvard and Princeton stand on the same basis and for the same reason. Three thousand Yale men, graduates khaki, and it is believed here that as many Princeton and Harvard men are in the service of their country.
 Wholesale EnIistments.
 Tt is not believed here that West ern and Southern universities have in nearly as general a sense from their athletic teams or from their student body in percent age has Yale. The position of the so close to the seacoast, | has led to wholesale enlistments in not only the army, but in the navy, | the Aviation Corps and-for many duates not physically fitted for these-in the Ambulance Corps "Yale plans for as much sports as 1t is possible to give the students this | fall. but it seems too much to ask | that intercollegiate sport can be ar | ranged, except in the case of the i freshman football schedule It is ex- -remely likely that the plan of Prince | ton, Harvard and Yale to arrange l