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Show WAR BROUGHT ABOUT ATHLETIC REFORMS Decided Change for Better in. Fight on Proselyting. Some Sort of Intercollegiate Association Associa-tion With Authority to Enforce Rules Is Advocated Meeting Meet-ing to Be Held Soon. Although somo of tho Eastern universities uni-versities aro slow getting Into atnletlc action, the Rentlmcnt In favor of somo minus to consolidate athletic informs brought about by tho .war ic getting stronger every week. Thero aro a good many reforms now In effect on account of war conditions. They mny bo enumerated as follows: No training table, abolition of long period of preliminary training for foot, ball, reduction of coaching expenses; reduction of fees for' football officials, holding regattas within tcrm-tlmc. Thero has also been a decided chan,?o for tho better in tho fight against proselyting. The problem which now confront the college Is to find somo cffcctlvt) means to mako these reforms permanent. perma-nent. Thero Is only ono way to do It and that is by somo sort of an association asso-ciation such as tho Western colleges have. There will probably bo a meeting meet-ing soon of tho National Colleglnto Athletic association. This Is a body composed of about 200 colleges and universities, tho most Important ones In tho country. It Is responsible for some desirable .reforms which have been wrought In college sports within recent years, but they havo been wrought rather by suggestion thnn any other means. Tho troublo with tho. N. 0. A. A. ts that It has no mandatory powers. It can ngrco upon uniform eligibility codes without number, but it has absolutely ab-solutely no power to enforco horn. It ban always seemed that in addition addi-tion to tho N, 0. A. A. there should bo n number of smaller associations divided di-vided Into groups In which tho mem bers would bo ot the snmo size or approximately ap-proximately so, and In which thd conditions con-ditions of competition would .bo even, It would bo easy enough to organlzo ono such group of' somo half dozen or moro of the big Eastern universities, another of a group of slightly smaller universities, with tho minor college! similarly grouped. Thero nre certain athletic reforms on which all could agree, while the different association! could still make such changes as would fit the particular needs of tho differ cnt associations. |