New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
No Championship Trophy for
intercollegiate Basketball

No championship trophy will be
awarded by the intercollegiate Basket
ball League this year. but the league
will arrange a series of games, begin
ming early in January and running
through until the middle Of March, ac-
cording to an announcement made yes
terday by Ralph Morgan, secretary. The
league held an executive session last
Saturday, at which representatives of
all the member colleges were present,
and it was decided unanimously to play
a schedule of games, but not to award
a championship.
The decision not to award a title was
based on the fact that Columbia, Cor
nell, Pennsylvania and Yale each has
two legs on the Heppy trophy, and that
it would be manifestly unfair to bold a
championship series which would prob
ably result in the winning of the title
by one of these four, ,nasmuch as at
least two of these te...--5 have lost Writ
ua!ly all of their DaaNe tball players.
I he unfalrness of awarding a title was
accentuated, MIR. Morgan said by the
fact that there is extreme doubt
whether Cornell will have team this
year, and, If it does, whether 1t will be
possible to play anything like full
schedule
Tne schedule which is being arranged
by Mr.. Morgan for the league series, in
consultation with the representatives
OF the various colleges, will be made
Pennsylvania and Princeton. Each OF
these teams will play the usual home
and home series, which Will make six
league contests for each team.
The first game will be played on Sat
urday, January II, and the season will
end on the third Saturday in March.
This will stretch the season over ten
weeks. The new schedule will include
in part some of the games which made
up the schedule which was originally
prepared for this season. The four col
lcges which will enter the league will
relnstate the game on its peace-tlme
basis.
The situation at Cornell is extremely
uncertain, and the more so because Of
the procurement against athletics
by President Jacob Gould Schulman in
his annual report made pubic last
week. Because of this and the fact
that the athletic committee has not yet
he'd meeting to decide upon an after
iHe-Wdf pOllCy LOT ulNiellCS, AOIHeli
does not know whether it will have a
team. If it does it will take no long
trirs.
Much the same situation exists at
dartmouth, whose chief objection to
putting 4 team IN the field this winter
arises from its remoteness. There is
chance that the Green will have a
team for local games, and it was sug-
= gcsted that 1t endcavor to arrange to
pay at least one game with each of
the four colleges which will go through
with the usual schedule.
The league adopted Resolution pro-
vidng for the wearing of white uni
forms by teams playing on their home
floors and uniforms whose jersey was
either the solid color or the combi-
nation of colors of the college repre-
sented. Such rule was made neces-
sary by the confusion which arose in
the Princeton Pennsylvania games last
winter, when in the stress of the con-
tests both players and officials were
unable to distinguish the uniforms OF
the two teams, because the Red and
Blue Of Pennsylvania resembled sc
closely the Orange and Black OF
Princeton under electric light
1t was decided that the regular rules
of ercollegiate procedure cover al
games played this winter and that the
officials for all games be appointed By
the secretary of the league Those
present at the meeting were Leverine
Tyson, F. T. Dawson and Charles
IIa sted Mapes, Columbia Ralph Nor
gan, Pennsylvania; F. w. Luehring
Princeton; DR.. A. H. Sharpe, Cornell;
j. w. Cannon, Dartmouth. and A. L
barber Yale