The Washington herald., 1917-08-03
Adopt Resolution to Con-
tinue Competition-Hold
Good to Freshman Rule.

s~utatNr1 OF me NattnuAl 1ullFMlain
Athietic Association. which vas req
resented BY is members of the nine
various districts az The New willard
Hotel yesterday 10 continue aports.
After three half-hour talks al the
morning meeting a committee was
appointed which represented delegates
from each divihon TO outline an ath-
letic program for the coming college
reason.
This committee reported back TO the
Association At the meeting in the
Afternoon and their resolution 20 con-
tinue sports was accepted IL was
suggested IN the resolution that in
tercolleziate competition should not
be hsld on such a high financial
basis. II was also suggested that
salaried coaches, training table and
preliminary practices should be abol-
ished by the colleges. The officials
In the games are not to receive the
fancy prices they have heretofore re-
ceived and that the least number
shall be used in the least important
games.
The lengthy debate OF the morning
session on the freshmen rule was also
covered in the resolution offered. The
colleges were advised that they could
either stick TO their old rule Of bar
ing freshmen or they could make
hrst-year men eligible.
Harvard. Yale and Princeton were
represented and they stuck to the
agreement which was signed by these
three universities shortly before the
war to discontinue intercollegiate
football this year. DR.. Raycroft, OF
Princeton University. claimed that
BY abolishing varsity sports that more
could be done for the student body
as q whole through intramural ath-
letics, military driIl and other athletic
activities.
me University Of virginia Joined
Harvard, Yale and Princeton and have
abolished intercollegiate activities
Prof. Albert Lsfebre stated that Vir-
rinla had lost i.loO men who had join
cd some branch Of the service and
that since the freshman class is only
expected to oe OF normal size that
the CharlottesVille eollegians will hold
only informal athletics during 1871 and
1913
Secretary Baker in his address to
the body said that II was the solemn
duty OF every college to maintain
IN every possible way the natural and
normal order of athletics and he en-
phasizcd the fact that II intercolle-
,:late competition could not be held II
was the duty OF the colleges to en-
courage informal sports in its student
body.
The secretary's address Is as fol-
lows:
1T Is the team plsv and spirit de-
yeioped by intercollegiate athletics
that has enabled the government TO
carry out so successfully and expedl-
tlously It's program In relation to the
training camps for officers." Mr.. Baker
said. "Athletics also Is going to play
an enormous part in the development
and maintenance OF the great camp
cities in which there are housed=the
100000 men who are to compose the
ARMY which we now intend to raise.
II believe that the colleges owe
IL as a most obligatory duty to the
state TO carry out the programs whicn
are the results Of years of delibera-
ton and study on the part of those
who have given their time to jne
study of various problems Affecting
sports"
''I do not know" continued Secre-
tary Baker. Just what program you
gentlemen will work out today. do
think. though. that the athletics
should be developed 50 as to reach
the greatest possible number Of men.
A few highly specialized athletes are
not SUFFICIENT to make armies, and 1t
is to be hoped that some methods Will
be carried out which will put into
effect a policy to give as many as
possible the SPLENDID development to
be obtained in athletics,
mot only that, but the great fear
Of those directing the affairs OF the
nation Is that there may be a deteri-
grafton in the academic life OF the
country. For this reason the col
lexes. by carrying out their programs
in athletics and thus making acade-
mic life more attractive to the stu
dents. will be rendering a service that
will be fully as great as may be
rendered in war. For I assure you
that we must have fully equipped men
to carry out the work of reconstruc-
ton after the war. which will be no
less dificult than carrying on the war
itself.
'aAnd thus cannot help but charge
you that the colleges owe it to the
nation to continue their programs
so that in the main the government
will have just as good reserves to
draw from for fresh armies, IL 1t be-
comes necessary to prosecute the war
indefinitely. as It now has men to
make up the two millions we are
raising; 50 that when the period of
reconstruction comes there will be
men fitted academically to meet with
success the great problems which
then will be presented"
C. j. Savage of Dartmouth was
the first to suggest that freshman
rule be inforced IL the various coll
leges had upheld this heretofore.
Major PickC ring Of tho University
OF Pennsylvania read a lengthy
resolution from the athletics board
from the Philadelphia school which
contained the hearty endorsement
OF most OF those present
The elimination OF intercolle-
giate athletics tended toward more
immortality and more drunkenness.
declared Prof. Ralph w. Aigler, OF
Michigan. We called OF all inter-
oilegiate sports and brought them
back because intercollegiate ath-
leties must be used to uphold inter-
mural athletics We abolished in
tsrcoIlegiate athletics because we
thought it was right and resumed
them because we feel that they are
Those representing the various col
lsges in the association and who spoke
on the subject Of continuing football
are as follows:
Or. z. c. Huntington, Colgate Uni
versity: r. II. Cam, New York Uni
versity; Thomas P. McCuteheon and
NJ. J. Reklornof, University Of Penn
sylvania: r. W. Murphy. Washington
and Jefferson; 7. J. Faberts, Holy
Cross College: z. c. Smith. Delaware /,
College: Charles W. Fine and G. E.
Kent. Cornell University; Prof. G. N.
Bryant, coe College. Iowa representing