The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-12-10
INITIAL STEP SET
FOR NEXT YEARS
FOOTBALL SEASON
DR.. Lee W. Milford, Oh
Clemson, Reelected
President OF Body

The Southern conference, void OF
all eligibility rules since August,
1913, will return to its strict reg
ulations governing athletes gradu-
ally, and the first step will go
into effect with the 1945-46 school
year, which means next football
season.
DR.. H. A. Fisher, State college,
member of the executive commit
tee, revealed the changes in the
conference rules tonight following
yesterdays meeting here, it being
the annual southern conference
gathering which was publicly I'M
announced.
eve hope to get back to the
straight path in the near future"
DR.. Fisher stated, land this is
far better first step than we mad
anticipated when we called t h e
meeting.'
DR.. Lee w. Milford, of Clemson
college, was reelected president Of
the conference for the third year.
Other officers reelected were D..
Fisher vice president; Col w. P.
Copper of Virginia Military Insti-
tute, secretary treasurer, and Dean
A. w. Hobbs, of the University of
North Carolina, member Of t h e
executive committee.
Easic changes are as follows:
l. There will be no civilian stu
dent transfers from colleges with
in or without the conference. Serv-
ice men are allowed to participate.
2. Transfers currently in school
may remain with these colleges
and be elibible; or if the transfers
were from colleges which discon-
tinued a sport, say football, they
may return to those colleges and
be elibible.
3. Scholastic requirements will be
rating, although like the transfer
rule, these will be ex post factor.
1--WE have taken great step
and nobody has been hurt Dr..
Fisher emphasized. There is one
other matter that remains and that
is an agreement with the South
eastern in Knoxville last month
and we considered these matters
which were to be presented to the
two conferences. The southern has
passed them, and I hope the South
eastern did over the weekend at
its meeting"
The committee consists Of Dr..
Fisher, Dean A. w. Hobbs. Uni
versity of North Carolina, and Col.
William Cooper, Virginia Military
Institute.
From the Southeastern meeting
in Birmingham, Ala, there is the
report that no action was taken
on transfers although one on the
amendments was to "seek inter-
conference agreement with other
conferences to establish uniform
standards and rules
DR.. Fisher anticipated a joint
conference committee meeting in
the near future.
Servicemen constituted major
portion of the discussions here.
The conference continues it's ruling
that the time a student is in the
service shall not count on his five
years of eligibility. This refers to
Viz boys who play with their own
Or another school. In othec words,
Duke or Carolina V-12s may re-
turn upon discharge from the Ma
Wy or Marines and still have an
allotted four playing seasons with
in period of five years.
However, athletes discharged
from the service must return at
once to college to keep from hav-
ing their eligible. years charged
off. II player waits two years
after being discharged before re-
turning to college, he loses two
eligible years.
Freshmen will be permitted to
play just as they have since the
conference rule throwing out meet
ing in 1913.
Duke university was represent
ed, but it did not have to get
permission to play in the Sugar
Bowl under the age-old conference
rules. This one, too, had been in
the 1943 purge.
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