The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-30

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Today will be just the same as
Thanksgiving day for football fans in
PaIo Alto, Calf, today when Uni
versity of Pittsburgh -Epeets NLeland
Stanford in the second east-meets-
west football classic of the year
/ The Fasteners are being given the
edge in the fray, but most of the sport
writers believe it will be a close score.
| A muddy field as a result of storm,
may slow up the game some accord
| ing to dispatches from the west
| Glenn Warner. coach of Pitt, is not
only coach for the eastern eleven, but
he is chief advisory coach OF stanford,
rather a unique position Tor one man
the position that heads I win, tails,
Andy Kerr, is coaching the Stan
/ ford eleven, and is an understudy of
Warner Kerr, formerly coached at
| Central high in Pittsburgh
| Both coaches declare their men are
/ IN the best of condition, and Friday
were vieinE with each other on the
outcome of the game. Kerr declares
/ IL is the first tine this year that the
stanford eleven has been in condition
warner states that the Pitt boys are in
better condition than when they met
w. and
1t should be a great game and give
/ the fans a chance to talk over the
merits of the east and west as far as
| football is concerned
/
| The National Collegiate Athletic as
| ISOLATION, which has functioned in the
past purely as an advisory body, may
4 become an administrative one, IL the
plans drawn UP and discussed at the
New York meeting this week. ma
| terializes. a revision OF the constltu-
ton is under way
| ID. w. Moorehouse. dean of Drake
university. presented these resolutions
| of the resolutions committee;
4 Ehn
more intersectional conferences.
?. More rigid enforcement of anna
| teur regulations
| g.. Adoption of the freshman rule.
A. Condemnation of tramp" ath-
5. That all collegiate athletes
should be limited to three years of
/ collegiate competition.
| G. That graduate students be de-
clared ineligible for intercollegiate
7. To oppose freshmen contests be-
/ tween colleges.
| receive the permission of the faculty
before competing on other than col
3. To fight the betting evil in col
10. THAT the faculty should have
/ absolute control of all college sports.
II. That all colleges should exert
| their influence toward enforcing the
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The rule regarding freshmen COM
! petition was finally laid on the table
/ out of respect to those to whom the
rule was new and who required time
to consider it.
The resolutions, for the most part.
| look good to US. We always have
1 been in favor of the freshman rule,
| the condemnation of tramp" athletes,
| the elimination. as far as possible, OF
| betting on collegiate students, and
| elimination of freshmen contests be-
| tween colleges.
Few rules changes were made at
| the New York meeting. 1t was de-
! cided that the penalties as they now
! are for clipping, interfering with the
player catching a punt, holding and
| two or three others, were drastic in
| their present form, and the matter
! was dropped. 1t was pointed out that
| officials would hesitate to call the
| fouls if penalties were made greater.
The st. Louis Browns are to leave
| for their training camp at Mobile
| about February 25, it has been an
nounced. The st. Louis Cardinals will
| leave March 2 for Breadontown, Fla,
and will go into spring training.
Otis Brewer. son of William Brewer.
| of Ottawa, has returned to ottawa
! after a successful trip thru the south
| with his three thorobreds, and is now
/ planning to spend the winter in OF
| tawa, training the three as we'll as
| the remainder of the Brewer string OF
| horses. He won first money with his
| trio twenty-one times.
| Kansas university, after a weeks
rest during the holiday season, will go
/ into training next week in preparation
| for the opening game of the season
with Creighton university. Omaha,
| January 8. DR.. F. c. Allen, coach,
| has been training his men all season,
and has been insisting on observance
i of training rules. The squad has been
| cut to eighteen men. John Wolf
| proba blywill start at center for the
/ Crimson and Blue. Waldo Bowman,
and either Arthur Ackerman or Byron
Frederick in the forwards. Paul
Endacott and Chrales Black will do
| the guarding.