Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
MOVE TO REVIVE
COLLEGE SPORTS
Meeting of South Atlantic
|. A. A. to Be Called to
Discuss Problems.
MUST PLAN FOR TRACK
BY n. C. BYRD.

movement shortly will be
initiated in the South Atlantic Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association TO
bring back the organization to its,
pre-war status, SO that the annual
track and field championships may be
held. and to attempt to bring about
closer relationships between all
institutions A special meeting OF the
association is to be called the latter
part of this month to consider all
matters pertaining to its progress and
general affairs. The meeting likely
viii be held in either Washington or
Richmond. more probably the latter +
Conditions in the various colleges
and universities making UP the asso-
citation should be the first subject OF
discussion when the meeting con
venes. Every institution south of the
Mason-Dixon line has had many diff
cuitieS to encounter in conducting
wartime athletics, and some OF them
have not carried on any general sports
organization at all. Practically all
have held up athletics to certain ex-
tent, but some have dropped certain
sports and have not attempted to
maintain others. Virginia, for in
stance. did away with foot ball but
played basket ball and base ball. IL
also Glu very 1lllie III Idth anu hCio
athletics. Most of the other schools
maintained foot ball and base ball.
but let track and field go overheard
general get-together meeting of the
association, bringing representatives
of all institutions into personal
touch. ought at this time to produce
better feeling among all. and by
mutual discussion of problems par
ticularly incident to this section prove
exceptionally helpful.
nTeESlng
problems facing many of the institu-
tions. Georgetown, as an example,
has boldly announced that 1t intends
to curtaii it's expansive system of the
last four years and consequently must
form new and somewhat permanent
alliances with colleges local to the
section. One of the problems that con-
| front all the institutions alike is the
| building up of track and field sports;
another is the organization of some
| kind of basket ball circuit that VIII
place that game on a stable basis and
give more prominence to 1t as an inter
collegiate activity.
| More pressing than anything else
. just now, as far as the association
! directly is concerned, is the annual
spring championships. Last year an at
tempt was made to stage the events,
but only two institutions took part
| Georgetown and Hopkins. If the meet
! is to be held this year some effort
must be initiated before long to plan
| for the competitions and the place
where they may take place.
! Members of the association are Fir-
/ ginia, Georgetown. George Washington,
! Catholic University, Maryland State, ST
Johns, Hopkins. Georgia Tech. Virginia
Military Institute, Virginia Polytechnic
| Institute, Washington and Lee univer-
sity and University of North Carolina
! III all probability all or the most of these
! will have a iVpS at the nrOnOSR,
meeting.
George Green. former physical director
at the St Alban's School and now phys.
/ zeal director at the Princeton Prepare
| tory School. is visiting in Washington
| Green is spending the holidays with
| friends here and will return to Prince,
| ton within the next day or so. 1t il
/ his opinion that this spring will mark
| the beginning of big boom in all ath
| letics, especially in the colleges.
| Bryan Morse has young star on
/. his basket ball team who is so full OF
energy that he never seems to get
/ tired. Once when he had practiced
for about two hours after the other
members of the basket ball squad
! had finished. Bryan walked over to
him with this question:
Say. don't you ever get tired?
Well it's this way" replied the
youngster. Il used to. but one after
noon I went out and ran around
Sheridan circle 1e1 times and since
then have never been tired"
Morse has not got over his amaze
ment since.
Lafayette's athletic field. March
Field, is named for Prof. March.
brother of Gen. March, Lafayette
graduate. Prof March is the Oldest
professor in point of service at La
fayette and for many years was di
rector of athletics. AS matter of
fact Gen. March himself and another
brother were prominent at one time
in athletics at Lafayette.
One of the problems the colleges
have been up against. or rather Will
be compelled to face. is the question
of allowing last falls foot ball to
count as a year in a mans term Of
playing in college. Western confer
ence colleges have settled the ques-
ton by stating that the foot ball sea-
son of 1918 will not count and that "a
student may play his full time after
that The question was not officially
discussed at the meeting of the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
in New York during the holidays, but
representatives of many institutions
talked informally about the unusual
opinion that the colleges follow the
stand taken in the Western confer
ence.
Following the recommends lions of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
concerning the abolishment OF training
tables and training quarters for athletic
teams the University of Pennsylvania is
out with an announcement that it will
not hereafter maintain training house
and win not have training table for
its teams in future years
Basket ball will begin TO get under
way in earnest this week. Schools al
ready have their squads practicing and
colleges will get their men out for first
workouts. The District intercollegiate
Basket Ball League is again in a fair
way to open the season, now being
slated to start January Is with George
Washington and Catholic University
facing each other. Most basket bali men
are predicting an excellent year for the
colleges and schools alike.