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YALH ALUMNI. WEEKLY
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FOR ATHLEMIC PURITY.
I, A. A, Makes Some Important Con-
stitutional Changes.
The annual meeting of the Intercol-
legiate Amateur Athletic Association,
which was held at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, on Saturday after-
noon, marked an important advance
towards purity in athletic competition
among the colleges. For some’ years.
past it has been conceded that the rules
concerning eligibility and government
were inadequate, and as a result a series
of proposed amendments were an-
nounced by the Advisory Committee
some weeks ago.
These amendments occupied the at-
tention of the Executive and Advisory —
Committees in two preliminary sessions
on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Harvard had presented an independent
set of amendments and this served to
complicate the work of the committees
considerably. Mutual concessions were
made however by which a majority of
the delegates were brought to agree on
the principal subjects involved. —
The meeting proper was called to or-
der by President J. M. Magee, Yale ’99,
and the following representatives an-
swered the roll call:
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 Uni-
versity; R. H. Ripley, Jr., Cornell Uni-
versity; T. A. Lynch, Dartmouth Col-
lege; 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.
Donnelly, Holy Cross College; R. W.
Fuller, B. J. Meyers and W. L. Wil-
liams, Lafayette College; Rodney M.
Heggie and Samuel W. Hicks, New
York University; H. Kennedy Hill and
C. L. McKeehan, University of Penn-
sylvania; Keith Donaldson and John R.
Cregan, Princeton University; A. H.
Shearer, Rutgers College; J. P.
Broomell, Swarthmore College; John
C. Boland, Syracuse University; H. H.
Lehman, Williams College; J. M.
Magee, Ji: D. Dana ands TR: Fisher,
Jr., Yale University; W. I. Lee, Hamil-
ton College. : :
Hamilton College was elected to
membership in the Association and the
following institutions, in arrears for last
year’s dues, were dropped from the list:
Boston University, Brown, California,
lowa, Lehigh, Leland Stanford, Michi-
gan, Pennsylvania State College, Wes-
leyan, and Wisconsin.
THE AMENDMENTS,
After the routine business had been
disposed of, Gustavus T. Kirby, Chair-
man of the Advisory Committee, sub-
mitted the amendments as altered and
recommended by the Executive Com-
mittee.
After considerable discussion the fol-
lowing amendments were agreed upon
and adopted by the Association:
“The President of the Association,
immediately after his election, shall ap-
point 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 annual field
meeting.”
(At Harvard’s suggestion the forego-
ing rule, which, as presented by the Ad-
visory Committee, limited the right of
appeal to the Faculty Committee from
the decisions of the Executive Com-
mittee, to cases merely concerned with
the scholarship standing of athletes,
was extended so as to allow appeal in
all questions where the eligibility of a |
competitor is involved.)
“Any member or ex-member of an
Executive or Advisory Committee or
any ex-officer shall be allowed to enter
into discussion, but not to vote. Any
alumnus may get the floor on a two-
thirds vote of the Association.”
(Harvard had sought that everyone
except students be excluded from future
meetings of the Association, and the
preceding amendment was adopted as
a compromise between Harvard’s sug-
gestion and a broader amendment pre-
sented by the Advisory Committee.)
“If a student has represented a col-
lege in any intercollegiate track meeting
in which more than three colleges or
universities participate 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 col-
lege he may thereafter attend in the in-
tercollegiate meeting until he shall have
resided two calendar years at the college
or university he represents and has
passed an annual examination on two
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.”
The foregoing is considered the most
important of all the amendments. pre-
sented, as it will eliminate the old prac-
tice of drawing into the large institu-
tions star athletes who have made their
reputation in the smaller colleges.
The rule requiring a year’s residence
in the case of school-boys who have
won prizes before entering college, was
modified so as to place little additional
restriction on them.
Some changes were made in the or-
der of the games, and the track events
. on the final day will take place this
year as follows:
Ioo-yard run, semi-final heat;  120-
yard hurdle, semi-final heat; one-mile
run; 440-yard run, final heat; 120-yard
hurdle, final heat; t1oo-yard run, final:
heat; two-mile run; 220-yard hurdle,
semi-final heat; 220 yard run, semi-final
heat;. one-half mile run; 220-yard hur-
dle, final heat; 220-yard run, final heat.
THE OFFICERS.
The election of officers for the ensu-
ing year then took place and resulted
in the unanimous selection of the fol-
lowing men:
President, Keith Donaldson, Prince-
ton; Honorary Vice-Presidents, J. C.
Boland, Syracuse University; P. B.
Reilly, Fordham College; Secretary, J.
B. Van Vleck, New York University;
Treasurer, W. R. Quinn, Columbia;
Executive Committee, T. R. Fisher, Jr.,
Yale; F. R: Nourse, Harvard; R. H,
Ripley, Jr., Cornell; C. L. McKeehan,
University of Pennsylvania.
President Donaldson appointed t he
following to constitute the Advisory
Committee: Gustavus T. Kirby, J. M.
Magee, ’99, and a-representative of the
University of Pennsylvania, who will
probably be Murdock Kendrick.
At a meeting of the newly-elected
Executive Committee, Oliver Shiras of
Cornell was appointed Manager of the
Games, and William B. Curtiss Referee.
BICYCLE ORGANIZATION.
After adjournment a meeting was held
at which the organization of the new
association, which will have charge of
the intercollegiate bicycle races, was
completed. H. K. Bird was elected
temporary Chairman and the commit-
tee appointed to draw up a constitution
and by-laws presented plans for an or-
ganization modelled as far as possible
after the Intercollegiate Athletic Asso-
ciation. The new organization will be
known as the Intercollegiate Bicycle
Racing Association. | The time and
place of the first meeting will be settled
by the Executive Committee. L. M.
Hall of Columbia was elected Presi-
dent, and the other officers will be
chosen by_ local appointment from the
following institutions, selected by vote:
Secretary, New York University; Treas-
urer, Cornell; Executive Committee,
University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Har-
vard and Princeton. ..
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Bicycle Team Training.
About twenty candidates for the Uni-
versity Bicycle Team have been taking
physical exercise in the gymnasium un-
der the direction of Captain L. Tweedy,
99. The outdoor work, which began
this week, will continue, as the weather
_allows, until later in the season, when
the team will be taken to the cement
track in Bridgeport or to the Elm City
Park track in New Haven.
The members of last year’s team who
are training at present, are J. H. Wear,
I9OTs. IW: McCutchen, EOQOG bs de
Jaques, 1900 S.; W. J. Ehrich, 1900 eo
hy trong. 1900S.; P. T. Gilbert,
1OOI, and L. Tweedy, ’o9. Besides
these men, there are several promising
candidates among the Freshmen.
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Swimming Contest.
Arrangements have just been com-
pleted for a swimming contest between
the teams of Columbia, University of
Pennsylvania, Yale, and possibly Har-
vard, to take place at Madison Square
Garden, March 9, under the auspices of |
the Sportmen’s Association. The dis-
tance of the races will be fifty yards,
with four men in each heat.
probably be, also, a game of water polo
between the teams of Harvard and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Yale’s team has not, as yet, been
fully decided upon, but will be picked
from the following men: pee pnt
Quackenbush, ’99 S.; C. Oglebay, 1900;
W. E. Minor, 1900; G. R. Hall, ’99 S.;
EK. W. Farley, 1901 S.; G. M. Smith,
1901; W. S. Creevey, 1902, and T. H.
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All these men have been swimming
in the tank, daily, for the last month
under the direction of Max Schwartz,
the instructor.
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