New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-03
College Sports on War Basis,
Pledged at Bakers Request
Association Adopts War Secretays Advice That All Stu
dents Receive Athletic Training Instead OF Specialized
Few-New System Will Be Revolutionary
By w. o. McCHEEHAN

Washington, Aug. college sports
practically were conscripted to-
day at the meeting Of the Collegiate
Athletic Association here. Acting on
the recommendation of Secretary of
War Baker, the delegates unanimously
passed resolutions which will revolu-
tionize the system Of college athletics
for the duration of the war and per-
haps for all time.
Under the new recommendations OF
the Collegiate Athletic Association the
spirit of college sports from now on
will not be to produce winning football
teams and crews, but to make every
man in the colleges an athlete accord
ing to his capabilities. This will be
achieved by increasing intra-mural
sports.
Judging from the meeting there will
be no big intercollegiate football games
this year or next intercollegiate con-
tests which produce a maximum of
rooters and a minimum Of participants
are doomed not only for the period of
the war but for all time. College
sports will now involve the entire un-
dergraduate body. Every student an
athlete" will be the new slogan.
The day of the highly paid profess
sional coach is done and there will be
no fear of proselyting. II the recon-
mendations Of the Collegiate Athletic
Association are followed out, college
sports will be placed in the proper
category and remain there.
Text Of Resolutions
The resolutions, which were gone
over carefully by Lieutenant Colonel
Palmer E. Pierce, chairman of the as
ISOLATION, and which were passed with
out a dissenting vote, follow:
Whereas. college athletics, as stated
by Secretary Baker in his address to
the conference are Of great use in de-
veloping the qualities of a good SOL
der;
Resolved, that we recommend to the
colleges that the programme of athletic
sports for the coming year be con-
tinued with increased efforts to de-
velop athletics for all students, rather
than for a chosen few, and that the
schedule of intercollegiate sports be
carried out so far as local conditions
allow, care being taken not to interfere
with the military training of the stu
dents or TO conflict with the military
interests of the nation. That we rec
ommend that there be no preseason
coaching during the coming academic
year. That training tables be given
up. That professional coaching and
other expenses incidental thereto be
reduced to a minimum. That the num-
her of officials of intercollegiate games
and their fees be kept as low as pos
sible. That the association reiterates
its belief in the eligibility rules which
it has already Endorsed, including the
freshman rule, and recommends that
there be no lowering of eligibility
standards because Of existing condi-
tons"
Bakers Recommendations
Newton G. Baker, Secretary of War,
outlined the attitude of the war De,
partment toward college athletics, ana
his recommendation were adopted al
most literally. Secretary Baker SAID,
in part; , 49,. u.-.,v =,
means Of diversion and recreati on
American college athletics, have de-
veloped in the last score of years
have made the college boy Of to-day a
man, as compared with the college boy
of ffty years ago. We have in training
camps forty thousand men. Most OF