The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-11

c. r. Phipps. Emporia State Nor
NAL faculty representative. and chair
man of the championship committee
on the conference. announced the
findings of the committee at 2:00
o clock this afternoon as follow:
I'm view of the findings of the pro-
test committee. which eliminated Dn-
lon, Emporia Normal, on ineligibility
basis, the Washburn- -Emporia Normal
game, which ended in a to tie, will
be forfeited to Washburn as victory.
The championship committee, in lieu
of this. hereby gives the 1920 cham
pionship of the Kansas conference to
Washburn. with an average of 916.
and honorable mention goes to Friends
with an average of Sss."
Hodges of Fairmount college was
also declared ineligible and all games
in which he participated were declared
forfeited to the opposing teams. The
ruling out of Hodges was made the
occasion of some argument on the
part of the Fairmount representatives.
who declared the college had not been
given sufficient opportunity to defend
the use of Hodges in games this fall.
Object to Tie Ruling.
Professor Phipps made objection to
the conference ruling now in force
counting tie game as one-half lost
and one-half won and made a motion
that the rulings of other conferences
mittee to report at the meeting in
May. 1921.
A motion by Doctor Parmatier of
Baker was substituted. allowing the
committee to make any other sugges-
| tions for changes in rulings found nee
essa- or advisable. The motion car
ried unanimously.
Track Meet to Emporia.
w. b. Wilson, professor at Ottawa
university, will represent the state OF
| Kansas at the annual meeting of the
| Chicago National Athletic association
at Chicago this winter.
Professor Phipps of the Normal en-
tered a request to President Phillips
that the annual track meet next
/ spring be held at the normal athletic
| field at Emporia. a unanimous vote
was taken in favor of this request
The normal field is large one and
Emporia is an easy point to reach for
/ both eastern and western teams.
Nothing to Rumors.
Following an address on Shall We
| Give A. B. Credit for Physical Train
I ing" DR.. J. F. Phillips. Of Southwest
in which he urged all coaches and
faculty members of Kansas confer
ence schools, to discourage rumors OF
| slanderous nature concerning other
| conference schools. DR.. Phillips cited
! several instances in which rumors
| started, unlOuulSG. ana were
| later found to be false, after consid-
erable excitement had been aroused
Some of these r1mors." said DIR.
| Phillips, concerned the way in which
athletes were induced to attend respee-
tive schools. In one instance a man
| left a certain conference school in the
middle of the term. Immediately after
! his departure man enrolled in South
/ western. His name was identicaliy
I the same as the man who had dropped
out. On the face of it. Southwestern
| seemed to have taken this man from
| the other school. Naturally the con-
1 ference thought Southwestern had
used Illegal methods in getting this
athlete. tThe rumors reached me and
upon investigation l ascertained that
the men were entirely different. altho
their names were identically the same
Methods Not Sanctioned.
Business men of the town in which
a school is located. and alumni of the
school oftentimes employ methods 70
get athletic stars which are not sane
toned by the school proper Doctor
Phillips continued.
"Of course the business men are in
terested in getting football. basketball
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