The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
College Cage Coaches Ask Cooperation
OF Organized Baseball At NCAA Meet

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-(P)-The
conference of conferences, an in
formal offshoot of the National Col
legiate A. A., Monday voted to
recommend a schedule boycott as
the means of enforcing the basic
principles of amateurism in col
lege athletics.
The group, representing virtually
every major college conference
and a number of independent
s%cools, drew up a set of five prin-
ciples of athletic conduct at it's
second meeting and proposed to
implement these principles by an
agreement that the schools which
adhere to them will not schedule
games with those which do not
conform.
Meanwhile the American associa-
ton of college basketball coaches
again asked for cooperation from
organized baseball in keeping col
'lege players ON the campus until
graduation and the American foot
ball coaches association devoted
the greater part of an all-day SEES
sion to studying the technical de-
tails of offensive play.
The recommendations of the con-
ference of conferences, which was
formed last summer to study the
growing problem of subsidization,
will be presented to the N. c. A. A.
at it's business meeting Wednesday
morning. Prior to that, the N. c.
A. A. will take up the question OF
subsidies and other pressing prob
lens at round table sessions to-
morrow which will be headed by
discussions of eligibility provisions
and 1.-The gambling problem"
High points of the program
adopted by the conference of con-
ferences were the five-part "prin-
ciple governing financial aids to
athletes" and the principle gov
erning recruiting"
The former specifies that an ath-
lete may receive financial aid only
from persons on whom he is ma
turally or legally dependent only
through regular college agencies
and that these grants from colleges
shall not exceed tuition and-or
other stated institutional fees ex-
cept in the case Of government
grants or scholarships awarded for
academic rather than athletic abili-
~.
In addition, it was voted that
athletes should neither be favored
nor disseminated against, that
recipients of aid should be given
written statements of the amount,
duration, conditions and terms OF
the award, that an athlete shall not
be deprived of a scholarship for
failure to compete in intercollegiate
athletics and that pay for employ
ment shall be commensurate with
the service rendered.
The Southeastern Conference,
which permits athletic scholarships
including room and board, books
and other necessities, was pointed
out as the principal non-conformist
group although many other in
dividual colleges allow similar
grants of aid. The Southeastern
Conference was represented at
Mondays meeting and previously
had indicated that it will change
its rules to conform with any
adopted by the N. c. A. A.
After considerable discussion OF
recruiting, the principle was adopt
ed that no member of an athletic
staff or official representative OF
athletic interests may engage in
off-campus solicitation of students
or offer financial aid to prospective
students. They will, however, be
allowed to make speaking tours or
appear Gin the general interest Of
the institution"
After a lively discussion of ways
of applying pressure to organized
baseball in an effort to get a hear
ing for their requests for an anti
tampering rule, the baseball
coaches settled for a mildly-word-
ed telegram to commissioner A. B.
Chandler, and voted to affiliate
themselves with the N. c. A. A.
Through this utilization, they hope
to establish a National Baseball
Championship tournament similar
n the NCAA Basketball tourney.