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Show BIG COLLEGE RULES SOMETHING OF JOKE Glaring" Inconsistencies Are Pointed Out in Laws on Football Eligibility Bv, Tribune (Special Sport Bervtce. VEW TtOBK, Deo IS There is so much inconsistency in the rules and regulations that govern the plans of men on the big college elevens that they reallv are laughable Take the one-year residence rule for instance The bl colleges 1 ke Tale Harvard, etc do not permit freshmen to play on the ersit team A student cannot play on the varsity until his sophomore (second) rear at that college of learning These higher institutions of learning frown upon anv private college that plays freshmen They make the seemingly absurd claim that It is unfair to play a freshman Vow when you loot at the thing fore and aft it seems that the college that does play freshmen u at a disad -antase not the college that doesn t. The old er we grow the more we know or ought to kno A football gink who Sas spent a year in college under the tutor ship of toe coaches who has bad a ear in which to studv b g league root ball methods, surely ought to know more about the game in his second col lege year than be 1 A the year before when he came frwh om the h gh or prep school bushe That s logical isn't lt Calls It Farce Boys gradually grow bigger and husk er between the ages of IT and "'l That makes It a rinch doesn t t that a 19 year old sophomore strooger hea er la ler and therefore more al aable to h: team than is an 18 vrar old freshman The fundaments) reason for the adop tion of that no frehn en on vare tv teams is a faree in itself Tbe rule was adopted for the purpose of abolishing the practice of arious colleges n coax ng star b gh school or prep hool plav ers to the r institutions and plav g them In the r f rt jear o t The rrae tire has ot stopped the I g ollsge scouts t 1 i the ure The only thing tie rule has accomplished q tarr ing a outb f om plaving n the ar sitv dnnng h f rst year at ro gr o that he an be develope 1 d r ng that vear and 1 lop'om forth our ng his sophomore tear Joke Rule No 2 And there s joke rule n n ber two Juppose a yo th plajs on the varsity at Tale or Harvard or some of those other one year colleges. Tan he play more than three years at any of those nstit tionsf He cannot Can he go to some other pn ate college and play for three ears there making six years Id allt lie annot an he py for three vears on anv r ate ollege team and thei go to the I nited States MUltan or I n ted tstCK Nsval academy and nla; three vears there? Bore he ran Sot onlv can he play here for three vears but he can plav for fonr var The rulei prnv ir that after a plaver has served t mc for three years nn a big ol ege eleven no olhe pn ate rol lege as uee hi ervire after that n less t wishes t be fnoths Utl sllv OS trarlzed h all th other ollcges But n tie case of the Army and Navy it Is Mfferent Works Only One Way We ( a se to ask o i Wh hould the Army and Naw be excepted! Why sbo Id thev be al lowe I to t Is nen that nn rlrate rol lege can play f Charles Daly starred for three yean at Harvard, was graduated went to the trovy and played for three or fonr years there, and no one got ex ited about it. Oliphant served time at Purdue university was graduated went to the Army aod has been playisg n the team since ny private college that plavs fresh men is ignored by the Tale Harvard I"nncton clan Anv private college tea o that attempts to use a footballer who alreadv ha plaved for three years on another varsity eleven is pointed to n scorn But the Armv and the Navy play freshmen and they plav men who have pla ed on other college elevens They violate both rules. And nothing is said What Is fair for the football goo doesn t seem to be fair for th football gander does ltf |