The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
EASTERN CRITICS DISCUSS CHANGES IN "PRO" RULES
Heads of Colleges Plan EIimi- nation of the Stains of
 Professionalism
By WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent of The Age-Heru
 (CopyrsEht. 1922. by The Age-Horald)

Special Correspondent of The Age-Heraad
 Copyright, 1922, by The Age-Horald)
 New York. February 25.-Dart- mouth is now heard from on the question of college athletics. Presi- dent Hopkins has joined those who do not believe that more drastic rules are need to control the evils asserting that these evils may be obviated by tho carrying out of the present rulea- He says:
 Breaches of the code of amateur ism in college sport are more likely to go back to careless individuals among the alumni bodies than among the undergraduates"
 Must Re One of Two
 He, too. joins in a clear cut Htate- ment that a man must be either an amateur or g professional, that he could not play for money and repre- sent his college. pr. Garfield, presi dent of Williams. agrees with pr. Hopkins that we do not need more drastic rules and specifically states that he knows of no sufficient req son for removing restrictions on sum mer baseball.
 Professor Wendell, chairman of the Yale Athletic Board of Control, told an assemblage of Yale graduates that the remedy for present evils in col lege sports is to restrict the hand ling of team during game to the players. "Of the evils" he said, the most insistent is the profession- .sf of fI5nf h I r1A an not merely the transfer into college of men whose sole object is to play football, but also the transfer of the game from the undergraduate to the coach"
 In discussing the suggestion Of Tad Jones, the Yale coach. that a player once taken out of a game be not permitted to return. Prof. Wendell said:
 "This change in the rules would tend to place the game more in the hands of the players"
 old DiscussiOn Revived
 Thus once more we have a recru- descenee 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 1t never prevailed and soon lapsed into the discard.
 Prof. Wendell objected vigorously however, to the proposal of pr. John of Amherst, that all boards of control be abolished as well as all coaches"
 The Yale representative took the ground that athletics had become too important a factor in our college training today to make 1t wise to return to undergraduate manage ment
 Thus we have before us for con sideration as a result of the winter season of excitement and rule sug- gestion in college athletics certain well-defined zones of opinion. Dr.. Lowell of Harvard favors cutting out a large portion of the contests which draw crowds of spectators, but keep ing up the contests with Yale. pr, Meikle John advocates scrapping paid coaches and athletic boards of control. President Hopkins of Dart mouth and Dr. Garfield of Williams urge no changes in the rules but rigid enforcement of the present code.
 PrincetOn's Policy
 Meanwhile. there is much specula- tien as to how the new Princeton football control policy will work out. Football there next fall will be under direction of graduate football strat- egy committee, which will ~embrace the head coach in it's membership. It would seem that this leads quite a long way from the proposition of pr. John.
 All the time. Stagg, of Chicago, is putting up a stiff front against de- mands that the bars shall be let down on summer baseball.
 And yet 1t was in 1915 that the great congress of athletic bodies held in New York to settle all questions of amateurism, promulgated the fol- lowing definitions:
 An amateur sportsman is one who engages in sport solely for the pleasure and physical mental. moral and social benefits he derives there from, and to whom sport is nothing more than an avocation."