COLLEGE ATHLETICS. 



MEETING OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE A. A. A. 

 This year's session of the Intercollegiate 



A. A. A., held in New York on February 

 25th, was one of the stormiest in years. 

 " Reform " was the watchword, though 

 many of the delegates differed as to the 

 measures to be taken to insure a healthier 

 condition of intercollegiate sport. When 

 the Executive and Advisory Committee 

 adjourned on Friday night, February 24th, 

 everything was in a chaotic state. Harvard 

 insisted on the amendments presented by 

 her representatives. After a long discus- 

 sion concessions were made by the framers 

 of the University of Pennsylvania amend- 

 ments and a combination formed, including 

 Harvard, Yale, and Pennsylvania, by which 

 a majority of the delegates were brought 

 into line on the principal subjects involved. 



The following answered to the roll call 

 when the annual meeting was called to 

 order: 



R. S. Fuling, Boston College; W. H. H. 

 Knipe and F. M. Taylor, College of the 

 City of New York; C. Hans Van Baur and 

 Frank Steven, Columbia University; R. H. 

 Ripley, Jr., Cornell University; T. A. 

 Lynch, Dartmouth College; P. B. Reilly, 

 Fordham College; James P. B. Duffy and 

 J. E. Mulligan, Georgetown University, 

 Washington; B. H. Hayes, F. R. Nourse 

 and J. T. Roche, Harvard University; E. 



B. Conklin, Haverford College; J. F. Don- 

 nelly, Holy Cross College; R. W. Fuller, 

 B. J. Meyers and W. L. Williams, Lafayette 

 College; Rodney M. Heggie and Samuel 

 W. Hicks, New York University; H. Ken- 

 nedy Hill and C. L. McKeihan, University 

 of Pennsylvania; Keith Donaldson and 

 John R. Cregan, Princeton University; A. 

 H. Shearer, Rutgers College; J. P. Broom- 

 ell, Swarthmore College; John C. Boland, 

 Syracuse University; H. H. Lehman, Will- 

 iams College; J. M. Magee, J. D. Dana 

 and T. R. Fisher, Jr., Yale University; W. 

 I. Lee, Hamilton College. 



After the minutes of the previous meet- 

 ing were read, Hamilton College was 

 admitted to membership and her repre- 

 sentative allowed to vote. The following 

 institutions were dropped from the roll be- 

 cause of arrears in last season's dues: 



Boston University, Brown, California, 

 Iowa, Lehigh, Leland Stanford, Michigan, 

 Pennsylvania State College, Wesleyan, and 

 Wisconsin. 



A motion was made to drop from mem- 

 bership all the colleges that had not com- 

 plied with Article III. of the Constitution 

 which imposes a fine of $25 on each college 

 that has not made a report of at least one 

 athletic meeting held under its auspices 

 during the preceding year. When the Sec- 



retary announced that only 5 colleges had 

 complied with the rule, the motion was 

 changed, calling for the report and impos- 

 ing a fine if not submitted before April 1st. 



G. T. Kirby, Chairman of the Advisory 

 Committee, then reported what his com- 

 mittee had done, and submitted the amend- 

 ments to the Constitution as altered and 

 recommended by the Executive Committee. 



The following change was then made to 

 Article 7, providing for the appointment of 

 a Faculty Committee. The. amendment 

 was adopted in the following form: 



The President of the association, immedi- 

 ately after his election, shall appoint a 

 faculty committee of four, a member being 

 designated from its faculty by each of the 

 four universities or colleges making the 

 highest scores in points at the previous an- 

 nual field meeting. 



The rule shutting out the alumni from 

 the future meetings of the association was 

 championed by the Harvard delegates. 

 The Advisory Committee recommended 

 that any alumnus or ex-member of the 

 Executive Committee be allowed to be 

 present and make motions at the meetings, 

 while the Harvard rule required that a 

 2-3 vote of the association be obtained be- 

 fore any person other than a delegate be 

 called upon for advice. A compromise was 

 effected as follows: 



Any member or ex-member of an ex- 

 ecutive or advisory committee or any ex- 

 officer shall be allowed to enter into dis- 

 cussion, but not to vote. Any alumnus may 

 get the floor on a two-thirds vote of the 

 association. 



The next article which came up for dis- 

 cussion \v?z No. 17, which was amended 

 as follows after much wrangling: 



If a student has represented a college in 

 any intercollegiate track meeting in which 

 more than 3 colleges or universities partici- 

 pate and has won a point — a point 'meaning 

 first, second, or third place — in any event, 

 he shall not be eligible to represent any 

 other college he may hereafter attend in 

 the intercollegiate meeting until he i shall 

 have resided 2 calendar years at the college 

 or university he represents and has passed 

 an annual examination or 2 full years' work. 

 This amendment not to be retroactive, but 

 , affecting only those who enter college after 

 the date of the adoption of this amendment. 



Harvard and Princeton have long fought 

 the discrimination made by the association 

 against the schoolboys who have won prizes 

 in games before entering college. As 

 finally amended the section of the constitu- 

 tion dealing with the question now allows 

 the schoolboys to compete and win prizes 

 in games held by clubs, etc. 

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