Show R. R M. M Finally Declares Packer Eligible Eight Months' Months Quibble Ends In Success For Star 1 J Basketball Player f R After more than eight months of bickering with the colleges of the Rocky Mountain conference Clyde Packer one of Utah's star basketball players was declared eligible last week at the semi-annual semi meeting of the the conference at Denver The tidings tidings tidings tid tid- tid- tid I ings ings- of Utah's victory were brought from Denver by Prof Walter Valter A. A Kerr who attended the meeting to present the case of the University The voting on on the matter stood 5 to 1 for Packer Colorado Agricultural college being the he the only member of the conference voting against the motion t The final action is the result of almost almost almost al- al most a year-long year contest waged for Packer Packer it was alleged b by some ome of the conference colleges was ineligible for any conference contest because of professionalism It was claimed that because Packer had Coached Coached in high school in southern Idaho he was ineligible to compete in ina ina ina a a conference game Packer started the season on the theP P Utah team but played only one game but was unable to participate again The Utah and the Colorado School of Mines held out against him thus S mald making g further participation tion that hat season impossible Utah would not drop the case how how- ever for although they felt that Packer Pack Pack- er might have been ineligible technically technically technically cally they also felt that the conference conference conference confer confer- ence colleges had violated the spirit of the rule At the spring meeting of the conference conference conference confer confer- ence the colleges communicated with Utah who had no representative at the meeting saying saing that they would be willing to take up the case of Pack Packer r ragain again providing the Amateur Athletic Union would recognize him The fhe case was then presented to the local board of the A. A A. A U. U who declared declared declared de de- Packer eligible for contests outside outside outside out out- side the Rocky Mountain conference The report was sent to the University by Dr Charles G. G Plummer a local physician and chairman of the Utah board goard of t the le A A. A A. A U. U As a result of the decision of the A. A A. A U. U officials of the conference wired to the University requesting that a representative be sent to the meeting in Denver Professor Kerr chairman of the eligibility committee was selected and left a week ago Fri Fri- day He returned last Friday Packer has participated in college athletics athletics- for one year only He willIe will willbe willbe be Ie out for basketball as soon as the call comes and will vill mal make e a strong bid for a place on the team o 0 0 |