New Britain herald., 1918-09-09
COLUMBIA ID HAVE
 AFOOTBALL ELEVEN
New York School Undecided on
 Other Branches of Sports

New York, Sept. 9.-Despite the fact that Columbia University will be transformed this year into a virtual military academy, intercollegiate ath- letic sports will be continued onA Morningside Heights, according to an announcement made in official circles at the university. Whether it will be practicable to continue sports on the plan that has been followed in the past or whether it will be necessary to work out an entirely new program, ;, is @ question that will not be settled until the university opens.
 The University Committee on Ath- letics is to have a meeting shortly to work out various aspects of tz9 preb- lem, but it can be said on authority that the varsity football eleven will take the field as planned; that a freshman football team will be or ganized if that is possible, and that varsity and freshman cross-country squads will also be formed, either di-. rectly before or at the opening of the university.
 Squads will be formed for other
  her. These sports will be basketball, wrestling, swimming, water pole, and fencing for the winter months and baseball in the spring. It is a matter of extreme doubt whether there wa. be varsity crew, but rowing will Be encouraged whether a crew for inter collegiate competition is organized or not.
 In addition to the adjustments in practice schedule and possibly also in playing schedules, which will be nec- essary with the interpretation of mil itary courses 1t is presumed that there will also have to be readjusS~ ments in the eligibility code which will permit of free and unrestricted participation by all students. It has been suggested unofficially that for | the period of the war and while the university is directly under the con- trol of the War Department, as it will be- that eligibility for membership on teams be as unrestricted as it is for membership on the teams of ara@ army or naval cantonment.
 Fred Dawson will return to New York In a week or ten days to assume charge of the football situation and the call for candidates will not be is sued until he takes up his headquar- ters on Morningside Heights. No de- tails of the coaching plans of the sea son will be available until Dawson trS- turns.
 The working out of practice sched- ules will also be laid over until Daw- son arrives This is a matter which will probably engage the attention of the military authorities who will be directly in charge of the Columbia Student Army Training Corps, h3S~it is presumed that there will be g. much opportunity for athletics at Col umbia and at the other 400 colleges { which like Columbia have passed un- der Government control, as there is at the Military Academy at West Point and at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
 In large measure Columbia's ancient ! athletic problem, that of having few of its students living on the campus, will be eliminated, because all of the students who would be eligible for athletics will be required to live Tn the university dormitories, Living stone Hartley and Furnald Halls, and in the student fraternity houses In and around the campus. This will | make it possible for the athletic and i military authority to work out sck ed ules for sports pretty much along the same lines as those followed at West Point and Annapolis.