The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-09
SPORT CONDITIONS
 EXPECTED ID SHOW
 MATERIAL CHANGES
New Regulations Will Be Made Necessary as Re
 suit of War

New York, July S.-While college ath- letics are expected to be resumed at a majority of the eastern universities next autumn it is generally conceded that pre- vailing conditions will be vastly different from those governing sport at these in stitutions in recent years. To some ex- tent new regulations will be necessary and a number of close followers of varsity athletics are of the option that the time is opportune for certain reforms in both the spirit and play of the game.
 This belief has been voiced in several localities and in some cases where small hope of a general revival of intercol- legiate sport is held out -or the next few months. An editorial in the Harvard alumni bulletin touches upon this point in a manner which may be said to be typ ical of other leading institutions in the east. In part it is as follows:
 Although optimistic articles about the early renewal of intercollegiate athletics have been printed lately there are no in dications that conditions at Harvard next fall will be essentially different from those which now exist.
 Much will depend, of course, on the amount of attention wnfch the under graduates wish to give to military train ing the intensive worK TOW carried on by the reserve officers training corps takes practically the whore time of all it's members, and such a schedule next year will make it impossible TOT the students to participate in intercollegiate athletics, or even in competition which might be confined to members of the university.
 If. however, military training is re- duced next year to minimum, the in- terest in athletics may revive sufficient ly to bring about informal contests with other colleges. The development of teams under such circumstances, must begin f1o om the very bottom. Almost all of the prominent athletes have gone away from Cambridge and ale Fl the training camps, the aviation squads, the naval re- serve, the ambulance corps or some other branch of service in prepara ton for or participation in, the war; few, if any, of them will return to college in the au- tumn, and their places on the football eleven and the other teams must be filled by new and inexperienced men.
 Such a condition of things would not be wholly disadvantageous, TOT it might tend to change the atmosphere in which athletics have been fos- tered There has been no peace in the minds of many enthusiasts without vic tory This is the professional rather than the amateur attitude towards competitive sport. The loss of it would be a positive gain"
 The return of the University of Michi- gan to the western collegiate confer ence is likely to have a marked effect upon eastern college football schedules when the gridiron game is resumed in this section after the var Because of her isolated position in her own terri tory Michigan has been obliged to look to the east for several big games each season. The Wolverines have played against Pennsylvania, Cornell, Syracuse and Harvard in recent Years and in every case the football pupils of Fielding Yost have proved to be strong attractions and opponents.
 If Michigan follows the custom of the other conference colleges rnese yearly in tersectional gridiron contests will have to be dropped. In the case of Cornell, Pennsylvania and Syrac--sc It will require considera ble search to find an opponent capable of filling the breach made by the withdrawal of the Wolverines.