El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-14
Ruling Of Col. Reeves Saves
intercollegiate Football
Games In October With No More Travelling Than
Saturday Afternoon by Team Members; Two
Games In November, Allowing Absence from
Friday to Sunday Night; Practice Periods
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NTASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. r.
w Probably the most beneficial
ruling ever made TO govern intercol-
legiate athletics vas the enc pro-
mulgsted TO the colleges and univer-
stiles Of the country last week by
Col r. 7. Rees. Of the war depart
ment, wherein was decreed that col
lege football elevens would be per-
mitted 70 play games throughout Oc-
tober provided no travelling other
than that possible on SatuId day after
moons was necessary, and that in No
vember they could play two games
requiring absences from Friday night
to Sunday night. In order further to
establish intercollegiate sport on a
firm basis Col Rees has ruled that
sufficient time shall be allotted daily
for football practice and practice Tor
other sports.
Under these regulations there
is no reason why every college in
the country should not be able
TO carry through n Complete
schedule Of interesting and ira
ditiOnal games. It opens the door
for the annual Harvard-YaIe-
Princeton series and makes pos
sible the playing of such battles
rs the COrneII-PenusyIva nia,
DartmOUth-Pennsylv Syra-f
euse-DnrtmOuth and Rutgers
Colgate. 1t bars the Syracuse
Pittsburs game in October, but
makes it possible in November.
Unfortunately it does make inter-
sectional games out Of the question,
for it will be impossible for Syracuse
to visit Nebraska to j urney to West
Virginia, or Georgia Tech to meet
Pennsylvania But for the most part
intersectional games are anomalous
and oftentime defeat their own ends
Eeestnblishes Old Custom.
But in providing for socalled local
games in October, Col Rees has &C
complished a reform il college sports
which educators and those most in
terested in the proper development Of
athletics have ught 10 accomplish
for years. Col. Rees's order viii re-
store many old time athletic rivalries
and will bring into being new rela-
tiOnships that cannot but be benefit
cial In only a few isolated sections
Of the country viii tn re be a hard
ship, because in most districts there
are enough teams within a radius OF
80 OF 30 miles tt provide an abund-
ance OF teams for the most exactinS
schedule. In New York, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, "a ], in fact, all the
eastern states and most Of those in
the middle west. II VII be possible
- provide highly satisfactory sched-
ules throughout October.
Plenty OF Teams.
In the New York district, for ex-
ample, there are Columbia, Ford
ham, Stevens, New York university,
Rutgers and West Point all within an
hour and a half Of each other by
train or automobile. In the Boston
district quite a satisfactory schedule
could be made up with Harvard, Bos-
ton college, Tufts, Holy Cross and
possibly NJ I. T.. while in western
Massachusetts,. Williams, Amherst,
Trinity and r. T. P. could apportion
for October Saturdays among them.
Princeton could call on Rutgers,
Haverford, Swarthmore. Lehigh. La
fayette and Ursinus for its October
games and Pennsylvania could have
an ever larger list to choose from
And so it would go through section
upon section of the country. Such
schedules could not but have a fine
effect on intercollegiate relationships
within a given district and the pro-
vision allowing for overnight trips in
November would make possible the
arrangement OF games that would be
with the natural and logical op-
ponents for late in the season con-
tests
If the letter Of Col Recess order is