Great Falls tribune., 1922-02-26
PRESENT RULES OK.
IN COLLEGE SPORTS
IS HOPKINS BELIEF
Dartmouth and Williams Presi-
dents Agree That More
Drastic Rules Unnecessary.
BY WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent Of Great Fails Tribune

New York, Feb. 25.-Dartmouth is
now heard from ON the. question OF
college athletics. President Hopkins
has joined those who do not believe
that more drastic rules are needed tc
control the evils, asserting that these
evils may be obviated by the carrying
out of the present rules. He says
.'breeches of code of amateurism in
college sports are more likely to &c
back to careless individuals among the
alumni bodies than among the under
graduates"
He, too, joins in clear cut state
ment that man must be either an
amateur or a professional, that he
cannot play for money and represent
his college. DIR. Garfield, president OF
Williams. agrees with DR.. Hopkins that
we do not need more drastic rules and
specifically states that he knows Of nc
sufficient reason for removing restric-
tions on summer baseball.
Let Players Handle Games
Prof. Mendell, chairman of the Yale
athletic board of control, told an as
semblage of Yale graduates that the
remedy for present evils in college
sports is to restrict the handling of a
team during game to the players.
'Of these evils he said. "the most
insistent is the professionalizing of the
game. By this I mean not merely the
transfer into college of men whose sole
object is to play football. but also the
transfer of the game from the under
graduate to the coach
In discussing the suggestion of Tad
Jones, the Yale coach. that player
once taken out of a game be not per-
mitted to return. Prof Mendell said
This change in the rules would tend
to place the game more in the hands
of the players
Old Plan Failed
Thus. once more we have a re-
crudeseence of the idea advocated a
decade ago that coaches both in base
ball and football be taken from the
bench Or side lines and placed in the
grandstands. The plan had strong
backing but it never prevailed and soon
lapsed into the discard.
Prof. Mendell objected vigorously.
however. to the proposal of DR.. Meikle-
john of Amherst that all board of
control be abolished as well as all
coaches" The Yale representative
took the ground that athletics had be-
come too important a factor in our
college training today to make it wise
to return to Undergraduate manage
ment.
Three Zones of Opinion
Thus. we have before us for con-
sideration as result of the winter
season of excitement and rule sugges-
ton in college athletics. certain well
defined zones of opinion. DR.. Lowell
of Harvard favors cutting out large
portion of the contests which draw
crowds of spectators but keeping up
the contests with Yale. Mr.. Meikle
john advocates serapping paid coaches
and athletic boards of control and re-
turning athletics to undergraduate
hands. President Hopkins of Dart
mouth and DIR. Garfield Of Williams
urge no changes in the rules but rigid
enforcement of the present code.
Meanwhile there is much speculation
control policy will work out. Football
there next fall will be under direction
of graduate football strategy com
mittee which will embrace the head
coach in its membership. It would
seem that this leads quite long way
from the proposition of DR.. Meikle-
john.
Stagg Is Firm
All the time Stagg at Chicago IS
putting up stiff front against de-
mands that the bars shall be let down
on summer baseball. And yet it was
only in 1915 that the great congress
of athletic bodies held in New York to
settle all questions of amateurism pro-
mulgated the definition:
''An amateur sportsman is one who
engages in sport solely for the pleasure
and physical, mental, moral and social
benefits he derives therefrom and to
whom sport is nothing more than an
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