Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-03-06 | Page 22 | Stanford, USC Head Camps in Frosh Rule

9 j f Stanford use Head Rio Ri Camps in Frosh Rule Figh By RUSSELL NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO March 6 UP Puffs from the pipeline carry messages indicating the Pacific Coast conference meeting at Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land March 23 will develop Into i ia a verbal Donnybrook on a rules change proposal to permit freshman freshman freshman fresh fresh- man participation In varsity ath ath- Stanford's delegation which packs a wallop wherever it assembles assembles assembles as- as as as- is expected to go all out for the idea o ot using year first-year men in the big lime time competition Stanford's noted president Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur already is committed publicly in favor of it He thinks freshmen could keep up with their varsity big brothers physically and maintain their status quo academically It is reasonable to assume that as Dr Wilbur thinks so will his faculty athletic representatives The Stanford director of athletics Al Masters Is in training to go 10 rounds or 20 if necessary in inthe inthe inthe the forensic ring in behalf of freshman emancipation He puts it bluntly that war conditions are making it increasingly apparent Stanford will need the services of the yearlings to augment the varsity turnouts In addition he favors springing the barrier to hasten the war- war born plan of hardening student- student athletes In the opponents opponent's corner unless a change of policy is noted before the meeting convenes will be formidable University of California California California Califor Califor- nia a heavyweight among heavy heavy- weights weigh ts When Stanford's Dr Wilbur came out In behalf of full fun freshman freshman freshman fresh fresh- man competition a couple of months ago California's popular Dr Robert Gordon Sproul took an opposite viewpoint He expressed belief emphatically that the youngsters had big enough burdens to shoulder as it was when they first moved into the Madison Square Gardens of learning Dr Sproul did not resort to boxing literature or its environs to express himself but it serves to illustrate his stand As dent also of the University of ot California at Los Angeles he speaks for both the southern and Berkeley schools Other conference members had hadnot hadnot hadnot not committed themselves at least not definitely at last re re- re- re ports It is believed however that the war emergency arguments arguments arguments ments will swing a majority if 1 not all of the rest of ther they lets use freshmen in competition side The major independent with much smaller studer to start with and sorely for new registrations und and would welcome a present freshman rule 1 7 I not members of the cor coi corbut cor corbut but abide by all its reguL- reguL I