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Show I WAR BROUGHT ABOUT ATHLETIC REFORMS Decided Change for Better In. Fight on Proselyting. Some 8ort of Intercollegiate Association Associa-tion With Authority to Enforce Rules Is Advocated Meeting Meet-ing to Be Held 8oon. Although somo of tho Eastern universities uni-versities aro slow getting Into mule tic action, the sentiment In favor of (iomo means to consolidate athletic informs brought about by tho war i. getting stronger every week. Thcro are a good many reforms now In effect on account of war conditions. They may 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 term-time. Thero has also been a decided chango for tho better in tho fight against proselyting. The problem which now confront the college Is to find somo cffcctlvo means to tnnko theso reforms permanent. perma-nent. Thero Is only ono way to do It, nnd that Is by somo sort of an association asso-ciation such ns tho Western college! have. There will probably bo a meet Ing soon of tho National Collegiate Athletic association. This Is a body composed of about 200 colleges and universities, the most Important ones In tho country. It is rcsponslblo for somo dcslrablo .reforms which have been wrought In collcgo sports within recent years, but they havo been wrought raUier by suggestion than nny other means. Tho troublo with tho, N. C. A. A. la thnt It has no mandatory powers. It can agree upon uniform eligibility codes .without nunibcr, but it has absolutely ab-solutely no power to enforco them. It has always seemed that in addition addi-tion to the N. a A. A. thcro should bo a number of smnllcr associations divided di-vided Into groups In which the members mem-bers would be ot the snmo size or approximately ap-proximately so, and In which thd conditions con-ditions of competition woutd .bo even. It would bo easy enough to organize one such group of somo hnlf dozen oc moro of tho big Eastern universities, another of u group of slightly smaller universities, with tho minor college! similarly grouped. Thero nre certain athletic reforms on which all could agree, while the different nssoclaUonl could still make such changes as would fit the particular needs of tho differ cnt associations. |
