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Show AGAINST FOOTBALL. New York University Goes on Record and Calls Conference. NKW YORK Nov. The council of New- York university, at a special meeting today. unanimous!) c fitted I'm If abolition Of football. Final action Will no! b,. tnk. 11 until the next regular mooting of Ihe council, three weeks from Monday. The meeting was ' called to consider ten memorials passed by th,- faculty, which the committee adopted' "The faculty of thl college and the faculty I of the s,-hool of sclenee of New York university univer-sity resnectfully request the council of the : university to call a conference of twenty col- leges and unlv ersKl's under the following Invitation Invi-tation : "Upon (he unanimous recommendation of tha faculty of the college of arts and of tho faculty fac-ulty of the school of applied se'ence New YorH unlv irBlty 'nv'ti-s e.-ch of th nineteen colleges anl universities whose football team ha played with the term of thl. university In any year since its organisation In liiM to a Conference to consider such questions as follow fol-low I "First Ought the present game of football J bo abollahed? 'Set mJ- If not. v hat M-ps should be taken t )CUre Its thorough refo-m" "Third If abolished, what game or games may bo possible In Its place. In the opinion of the athletic representatives In conference. Eiach college or university Is Invited to send a representative of its faculty and a repre-s, repre-s, ntatlve of Its athletic organization, making a possible if ember. hip of forty "it is deemed proper to add that the deh-gote.. deh-gote.. of New Yolk university, on the unanl-111. unanl-111. .us r (Commendation of the student organization, organi-zation, are Instructed to aupport the first resolution, reso-lution, 'hat thi- present gume of football ought to be abollahed." It was also voted to hold the conference on December 8. The Invitations were sent out tonight. |