Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-25 | Page 13 | Would Introduce Boxing as Major Collegiate Sport

WOULD INTRODUCE BOXING AS MAJOR COLLEGIATE SPORT NEW YORK, Dec. 24. When the National Na-tional Collegiate Athletic association holds its annual meeting here on December Decem-ber 30, one of the subjects to be discussed dis-cussed will be a proposal to introduce boxing as an intercollegiate minor sport. Collegiate physical directors said today that boxing, probably more than any other sport, received a "tremendous impetus" im-petus" during the war and that there is a general demand among students for the adoption of the "raanlv art." Dr. R. Tait MeKenzie, head of the department de-partment of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania, is among the leaders in the movement. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24. The adoption adop-tion of boxing as an intercollegiate sport will be urged by University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania athletic authorities at the meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic association asso-ciation in New York next week. ,In making mak-ing this announcement today. Major M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics ath-letics at Pennsylvania, said he favored three-round bouts with two minutes to each round. This, he added, would be long enough for the average college boxer. Major Pickering said there should be two judges and a referee for these bouts, the right of decision to be reserved for the judges, and in case of a deadlock of opinion either the referee should decide, or, if the bout is unusually close, it should go an extra round.