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aid to athletes. Villanova stated,
simply, that it's president, the Rev.
Francis MCGUIRE. had not received
several letters addressed to him
by the policing body, having been
on. vacation at the time of their
arrival.
The three Virginia schools. as
well as Maryland, did not back
down a foot in their defiant stand.
A clear indication that the ac-
cused schools had summoned suf-
flcient support to avoid expulsion
came several hours before the de-
cisive vote. An amendment of
fered by w. A. Alexander, director
of athletics at Georgia Tech, to
make a three-meal-a-day train
ing table legal was voted down by
only lis to LOG.
AS the 106 who supported the
measure obviously were opposed to
strict enforcement of the article
in the code which permits athletes
to receive only free meal a day,
the rebels felt certain of their sup
port on the showdown ballot.
Thise favoring a stricter sanity
code won minor victory, how
ever, when the convention adopted
by a vote of 1853 to As, a Dart.
mouth recommendation to forbid
campus tryouts for athletes.
Under the provisions, schools
cannot pay travelling expenses of
any prospective athlete nor can
it hold practice sessions to test
boys skill prior to enrolment.
No Action on Bowls.
No action was taken on the
Bowl Committees six-point rec
ommendation. In the main, it
specified that sponsors of Post
Season games must give competing
schools 30 per cent of the gross
receipts and allot them one third
of the tickets.
A special committee was formed,
instead, to compose a set of by
laws in which such items may be
incorporated. This is to avoid
having to revise the constitution
repeatedly.
Houston spoke against the pro-
posal for a new committee to study
revisions in the sanity code, argu-
ing that 1t nullified the functions
of his three-man group.
When the proposal passed, how
ever, he said: "Our committee is
still active under the constitution.
We will do what the Executive
Committee tells us to do"
Bernie Moore, Commissioner of
the Southeastern Conference, pre-
dicted today's developments would
result in workable code to which
the entire membership could con-
form.
It may call for open athletic
scholarships. such as proposed by
Virginia, Maryland and some of
the other recalcitrants, or it may
provide the year-around training
table.
The anticipated fireworks failed
to materialize. Tempers were re-
strained and the speeches were on
the whole, moderate in tone.
Houston presented the cases
against the institutions. one by
one, and then representative of
each of the accused took the ros-
trum to reply.
Victor o. Schmidt, Commission
er of the Pacific Coast Conference.
made the only speech for those
favoring enforcement of the code.
He said:
The question is whether We'll
retreat and, if we retreat, where
are we going and when will we
come back. Are we going to show
the red badge of courage or the
white feather of surrender"
The rebels won a major victory
when it was decided to vote on
IIle seven as a group rather than
take them one by one.
Norton Pritchett, athletic di-
rector at Virginia. said his institu-
ton could not be honest in giving
athletes good-paying jobs for
minor tasks to meet tuition and
board fees. The other Southern
ers took the same position.
The sanity code restricts schol-
arships and stipulates an athlete
must work for his keep.
The NCAA voted today to hold
its convention at Dallas next year.
The executive committee set the
date for January 1913, 1851. The
American Football Coaches Asso-
clation will meet at the same time.
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