Show COACH STAGG ON ELIGIBILITY Would Bar Men From Competing ing With More Than Th n One College The Western estern Conference Intercol Intercollegiate Intercollegiate association is the seat of ot re reform reform form forn in hi college sports Many Ian of or the laws enacted in that association later have been adopted in other sections An altogether new nev no thing now is pro proposed proposed posed and by b A A Stage Stagg S of ot the Uni University of oC Chicago He wants ants to have havethe havethe the conference include what Is termed an Immigration plank In Its platform This Is to bar from taking part in ath athletics athletics of ot the second institute men who ww come from another college The Thc pres pre present present ent regulation Is that men coining coming from rom another university must be In resi rel residence dence lenee for tor an academic year ear before they become eligible and anti then may not play pIa if It they have had three years of var varsity varsity varsity sity competition in their first Institution Institution tion Generally however there is no objection to a man who has become eligible properly proper through his year ear of oC residence taking part In sports The rule Is designed to bar barthe barthe barthe the athlete tramp In other days da s some ome men tried as ns many man as three colleges in turn leaving h one to go to another as they the saw sa fit Under the tho old system or lack lade of ot system they the became eligible the moment they paid their fees In the h college they the entered It was a very yer bad thing Indeed because It led to all sorts of actual corruption IJ It I was the sort of oC corruption that could not bo be b proved In fn many man cases ro es especially especial I where the athlete In question was supposed to have hae enough money to put him above aboe being bought But It worked out in inmany Inman inmany many man cases Just as if it the man were a professional ball bail player pla er trading his al at allegiance allegiance for tor Interest and conducting himself in sport altogether as if it he were a pro and nothing else Ie Later on when the demand for some reform that would put an end to this thin became strongest the rule was put in force torce This together with the freshman rule put an end It Is as assumed assume sume to the old type t pe of floating However it is within the possibilities that a n man good enough to be valuable to a college athletic association might even een be bo maintained a year ar In the institution Institution with the suret surety that eventually he would take his place on the varsity team In the particular sport in which ho excelled to an nn extent to make it worth while to keep him hint on This pos possibility possIbility slight sU ht though it may ma seem to some pome folks who do not know how zealous alumni are in behalf of th thi tha athletic prestige of ot their universities makes a suggestion like that of oC Pro Professor ProfeSsor fessor teor Stagg very Cr interesting Professor ProCessor Stag Stagg Sta purposes to haw have these the e men kept but of or sports alto altogether altogether gether If they the come from another uni university university In theory theor it Is because they the theare are eo so greatly attracted by b some tea fea feature ture of or the curriculum that ther the con considered considered considered it worth while to change Granted that this is the case they the are areto areto areto to be bo left at t liberty to t indulge them themselves solves selves JeM In the studies that drew them then away awa from the other university where their work was tempered by b athletics If It is another ca eo ease s e 1 suh as 35 moving from some city near their old uni university SHy to toone one nearer r Chicago Chica o for In Instance Instance stance which impels the change at atI l I least they are art under the same ruling This Is a It perfectly perre Innocent nt step that brings with it all aU the consequences consequence oT oTone o one undertaken with a worse intent The best b st that can be said then is that it IP Is unfortunate By Tt B preventing the athlete from an another another another other college collece ever fer from taking part In Ia sports in 11 another university much of or orthe the unpleasantness s which now exists can in n be bf done donl avny a nv fI oy with There can be bc beno beno no talk of and no insinuation tion that th We bit bI collie college e up all an anthE the good men of oC the smaller one If a n aman aman man changes es Colleges because bec U he Is after better bett r things in time the th line Uno of ir in to t some s particular line there tl e eI Is I no tic n question that he ho should feel hurt hurtt st It t bein barred from varsity snorts Primarily that should be hI at o for Chicago men at Wisconsin for Wisconsin men menAn menAn An example of or the wrong wron sort Eon of uni nfl university university tom team was at Columbia some Ome ao asro when the tho th football eleven had man mm from rein WIlliams William yun Michigan and ami wh whet t not on it These men hart no real roal loyalty to Columbia it ri ay be bo said without hurting their feelings They were rp in Columbia to pursue in most cas ense s graduate br luat work and they were wre not Columbia men mn any anymore nn anymore more than an Arr American JI scholar scholar l Is really and truly an Oxford man mann manIt manIt It Is not always the fault of the col ol olle letre lere le e either Many M n men who come Into athletic prominence write to coaches In bigger universitIes asking whether hEth t th v would be welcomed if they made mule madea a change eh Professor hac has had oc oo occasion casion ion to d dat U with some SOTIe of If the th these e men and has hl written In return that he had no Interest in their mo ri nt Tat Lat tony terly he ho Isis has been b n strongly t to tomaKe maKe a n sharp reply to these men m n who very ry action 8 i enough h to brins brinn Chicago Into H U cannot annot help IC what bat tie may mav bo be b ln to do In Inthe Inthe inthe the wiLy way n or of selling their athletic abili ability ability ty tr hut but he that If It became im impossible possible for them their tb to find a I market an enl end would ull be put to one form C rm of ath athletic athletic athletic letic traffic He has no objection nor 11 has hac any Ln other ot r man in charge of ot college snort to let these men h ho vo ever evert privilege of exercising In the second ond unK It they thov tho may mn choose to adorn But that is I Ih what h t few re of them fiem tm nrc 1 after anti If It they the been heEn hf d 1 bv by b some ome per person perOn person son On Interested the thov th e poser ener er for them themselves selves to share sharf In the th glory that at attaches attaches attaches to being a star st r man on a Q big bt un university eleven eleen or other athletic team tam They Th want that because the be believe b believe lieve they are arc qualified to bo h p bier bl frosts fro froIn in big bl puddles That Is IR where the ath athlete athlete lete very verv often Is to blame Often in just ju t such cases cages folks outside blam blan the college for reaching out to grab up good men from small college colleges |