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Show BXU. M 101 Bt ALLOWED 10 PLAY HIGH SCHOOL BASKET BALL MEN . The dispute which? arose In the meeting of the representatives of the rtate colleges Thursday afternoon still remains unsettled as a result of a further fur-ther confab Saturday morning. The point at issue Is the playing of ed up to by the other teams of the state. The matter has been agitated by mail, during the past year, however, as several of the coaches and faculty men were not pleased at the decision. They declare that in this way the B, Y. U. has had adequate warning that the matter was to come up again and should have prepared before now for its appearance. Coach Joe Jensen of the A. C. points out the B. Y. U. has a great advantage over the other colleges In that basketball basket-ball Is the chief attraction, while the A. C and Utah spend their major efforts ef-forts on football. The church school takes up the hoop game the first thing in the fall and when the season rolls around Its team is advanced pretty far along when the other teams are just starting the grind. The iB. Y. U. has taken most of the state basketball championships In the history of the sport In Utah for this very reason, Jensen argues. The Rocky Mountain conference meeting scheduled for January .12 may help to clear up the rumpus because Coach Roberts' team will be compelled to observe ob-serve the same rule as the other institutions in-stitutions if they desire R M. standing. stand-ing. iHerald-Republlcan. fourth-year high school men by the B. Y. U. In Thursday's conference it was decided to force the Provo school to live up to the Rocky Mountain conference con-ference eligibility standards. Further debate on the subject served only to gain one more faculty vote for the B. Y. U., leaving the vote two for and two against the rule formulated Thursday. The schedule will be played play-ed through, and as the matter stands now the 13. Y. U. will have to play strictly eligible men. The question of eligibility at the B. Y. U. is a long, standing one. Coach Eugene Roberts Insists that the college col-lege attendance Is only about 250, most of It girls, including the high school section, and that it is absolutely absolute-ly necessary for him to use all the boys to make any showing at all. At last year's schedule meeting two years' time was officially granted the institution to readjust its athletic teams to conform to the standard llv- |