Show REFORM 1 IN GAME IS CERTAIN S Colleges Take Up M tt in Earnest CAMPS CROWD ASKED IN WILL MODIFY SPORT WHETHER I THEY WILL OR NO New York Dec conce concerted ted movement toward reforming the game gam of football In the colleges and slUes of Am America rica was beg begun n here to today today day when representatives of sixty eight Institutions of learning agreed to act together in securing the adoption of rules and an enforcement of them that are expected materially to lessen the danger to players to do away with mass formations and secure perma permanent nent officIals for Intercollegiate con contests conteSts tests The conference has effected a permanent organization and appointed a rules committee of seven Beven which will communicate with the representatives of t Yale Princeton Harvard Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania Cornell Annapolis and Chicago university constituting the existing committee on rules asking asling for an amalgamation with that bO body y None of the above mentioned universities waS represented at conference If they refuse to join with the committee appointed today the latter will act in independently independently dependently and formulate rules for forthe F the guidance of time the institutions ratify ratifying ratifyIng ing action Rules Committee Named The committee on rules named by the conference is as follows E J HuH Dartmouth Lieutenant Dab Daly West Wes WestPoint Point T J A Babbitt Haverford col college college lege Dr H D Williams University of C W Savage Oberlin college James T rr Lees University or 0 i Nebraska and F H Curtis University University sity of Texas The committee will gO gOto g to Philadelphia tomorrow to present Its credentials to time the existing football rules committee The following permanent officers of 01 the conference were elected I E West Point vice president Dean W WD WD D Wild Williams college secretary Louis Bevier jr Rutgers college An executive committee was elected and consists ot of the president representing the New York section the vice president representing New England the secretary representing the middle states and the following other mem members bars bers Chancellor Prank Frank Strong Uni Un of Kansas representing the tar far west President Welch Ohio Wesleyan representing Ohio W L Dudley VanI Van Vanderbilt university representing the south The member to represent the middle west was not chosen but will willbe be selected later The conference which was tile tHe result ot of a call issued by Chancellor McCracken en of New York university finally ad adjourned adjourned tonight subject to the call of the president Spirited Debate Over Sport Time rIle debate during the day was spir spirited spirited at times Time The appointment ot of a rules committee to net act with the exist existIng existing Ing football committee was the result of the stand taken by West st Point in favor ot of such action as the most raM ra Hona course for the conference to pur pursue pursue sue West Point suggested that the committee be limited to five members but finally consented to its enlargement to seven The Instructions to the new rules committee were those recommended recommended mended by West Point Captain Pierce representing the tho military academy pe e edared dared that the academy authorities did not want all the roughness taken from the game Some knocks and bruises were necessary to the sport he said He believed the present rUles slightly modified and enforced would bring about the desIred change In the game Among the many resolutions Intro the following was adopted Plenty of Resolutions Whereas the game of football as practiced under existing rules by the students of the educational institutions in the United States has developed un desirable features the regularly ac acCredited accredited Credited representatives of the fn ul ties of the educational institutions from frani all sections of the country In conen comen tion assembled In New York City Dec 28 1905 in an to remove thIs oh ob phase ot of the sport has hereby Resolved That this conference reo rec recommend that the th academic authorities of this hold themselves as ultimately r for the conduct of athletics with n their respective in institutions Resolved That it Is 18 recommended that th the executive committee e of the permanent organization take cognizance tince ance among other things of the vital questions of eligibility of students who take part In athletic games game 3 and sports and report as an early a time as U able to themselves on rules and ond rec recommendations for the conduct of all such matters Resolved That the action taken at this conference on football shall be sub submitted submitted to all colleges actually engaged in the game with the request that the same be ratified and shull shil be binding on any Institution only upon tion by that institution Among the Institutions represented at the conference e were the of Colorado and Kansas and Colorado college |