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Show I VARSITY ATHLETES I Some time ago Coach Joe Maddock of tho university football team wrote several sev-eral letters to the athletic managers of various Colorado schools, asking for tholr views regarding the athletic relations existing ex-isting between the various colleges in the lntormountaln region. Maddock appreciated ap-preciated tho fact that conditions were not juat what they should bo and wanted want-ed to get a fronlt expression from some of the Colorado people. Friday last he received a reply from Frank J. Earl, graduate manager of athletics at the State Agricultural college at Fort Collins, which, while It Is Mr. Earl's own private pri-vate opinion aud does not express the official position taken by the board of control, is nevertheless significant and interesting. Among other things, Mr. Earl says; "Tho organisation now existing betwoon the Colorado colleges Is farcical and each act3 as Independently as though they belonged be-longed to nn outsldo conference and played tho others purely to fill schedules. What Is tho moral difference in the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the Denver university football team and with its sensational rise to fame, and that of tho University of Colorado? The Hfatc university claims u. clean slate on tho ground of Its rigid adhoronce to tho present uo-callcd general athletic control, and says that Donver Is not a faculty controlled toam, but Is mercenarily in tho hands of ambitious am-bitious alumni. From what I know of the merits of tho case. I do not think that Denver has violated athletic ethics, morally, any morn than tbo Boulder institution in-stitution has or ls doing at all tJmce. "Tho eligibility cloak is tho product of tho Boulder institution, she having bean the chief promoter In Its Incipience, While Boulder lives up to the letter of her own manufactured code, Fho Is doubtless violating athletic ethics that would send hor In shame from such a conference, as, for Instance tho 'Big Nine.' " Earl believes that tho only remedy for the present condition or affairs is to form a strong organisation, not controlled by any ono particular Hchool. Tho present pres-ent rules and present control aro inadequate, inade-quate, and will never servo the purpose for which thoy were made. Tho Fort Collins manager would like to sec such a conference formed and would bo glad to ace the University of Utah Included with the Colorado schools, and thlnkK that othor lntcrmountaln Institutions Institu-tions should be admitted as ooon as their teams show aufflcient merit. |