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Show JAMES E. MOSS WILL CONTINUE AS HEAD OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION C. Orcn Wilson Re-elected Secretary-Treasurer; Changes in By-laws and Constitution Passed; Eligibility Arbitrator Will Be Named Today for Purpose of Settling Troubling Disputes. JAMES E. MOSS and C. Oren Wilson, both of Salt Lake, where yesterday yester-day reappointed, respectively, president pres-ident and secretary-treasurer of the Utah High School Athletic association. asso-ciation. Yesterday's meeting", -which was held In the Brlgham Young- Memorial building, was attended by over 100 principals, directors di-rectors and coaches. It was undoubtedly undoubted-ly the lararet-t. meeting" of i t n kind ever hold by the U. II, S. A. A. fsiuco its ur-gauiisatlon. ur-gauiisatlon. A number of changes in the by-laws jtud constitution were voted on.. Xo definite defi-nite action was taken with resard to the petitions of the two new hih , schools desiring: to enter the state league, namely, name-ly, Oneida Stake academy of presto n, Idaho, and the Magna hish (school. Although Al-though the board favored their entering, enter-ing, final decision wa s left to the pri n-cipals n-cipals of schools in which district they w on Id play if given admission. The matter of new division and section lioundaries was turned over to the board v( control. It will decide this at i's annual an-nual meeting, which will he hold at. noon today in the reading room of the Doseret gymnasium. An eligibility arbitrator, who theoretically theoreti-cally will be a member- of the board of control, will bo chosen today at the board meeting. His business will be to decide in all cases where the eligibility of an athlete is qiu-stloned or similar mutters which might arise. Must Register Athletes. t will be the duty of each high school principal to send in a list of students who will ta ke part in competitive athletics and eligible to participate in such competition. com-petition. These athletes must be registered regis-tered with the eligibility arbitrator or bo barred from engaging in fcueh ath -lctfc contests. A registration fee of cents per athlete will bo charged. It was yesterday decided that in all schools having Junior colleges an athlete ath-lete carrying less than f ifffpn credits should be termed a high school student, snd, us sucli, cm Id not play on the junior team. In the same way, college athletes would be unable to play on the high school teams. At 0:.'io o'clock this morning a meeting of all athletic coaches, officials and others oth-ers who desire to become officials will be held in the bookkeeping room of the L. D. S. business college. Hero the question of interpretation of rules will be the big issue, and it is. to be hopd a uniform system of officiating will be arrived at. In the past, officials have interpreted tn ruls in various ways, and many of their rulings have been bitterly criticised. However, a uniform interpret ation of the rules is exported to settle this difficulty. diffi-culty. This cause would be greatly accelerated ac-celerated if an interpretive contest, such as is staged every year in Philadelphia, could be played for the benefit of the officials. Here time is called after the calling of every foul and IIhj reason for calling sanio explained with thoroughness. Board Meeting; Today. Members of the board of cont rol will have a great deal of business to transact at their meeting at noon today. In addition ad-dition to the division and section boundary boun-dary disputes which they will be called upon to settle they will also be obliged to decide when division schedules should be completed, selection of ' officials for games, their fees, selection of time for annual tourney, number of teams to go to the tournament and any other business which may be brought up. All of the board of control members have been appointed, with the. exception of the Nebo division representative, ami the eligibility arbitrator. It is expected, that L,. II. Peterson, at present Xxebo division head, will be reelected. A. M. Merrill of the Jordan high school was appointed representative, to succeed suc-ceed TO Ashton. in the Salt Lake division. di-vision. Morgan of the South fcVnpete hisrh is the new head of the Sanpctc-Se-vier division. J. 1 f. Walker. Alpine district dis-trict superintendent, and Aldous Dixiou, Weber normal, of the Northern division, arc two more members, ltoy K. Homer, principal of the Branch Agricultural college, col-lege, was reelected Southern division rep-I rep-I resentative. |
