Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-04 | Page 10 | Football Schedules Given Chance by Faculty Men

(Football Schedules Givesi Chance by Faculty Men CHICAGO. Oct. 3. Football schedules sched-ules of the Big Ten universities were given new life instead of a death sentence sen-tence at a special meeting today of Western Conference faculty representatives. represen-tatives. The program will be carried out as originally planned, except the Important contests scheduled for this Hill OCL LIUWIl UUI.il IU) L-lllUCl and the season lengthened until the Saturday following Thanksgiving. In previous years the Big Ten season closed on Saturday preceding Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. Prof. Thomas E. French of Ohio State university, who presented the athletic situation to Colonel IL T. Rees of the army general staff, who Is In charge of the student army training corps maintained at the universities, told the faculty representatives that the war, department was strongly in favor of intercollegiate athletics, particularly par-ticularly football, because of Its value In military training, and desired to encourage en-courage competition. The original ordcrt however, prohibiting prohib-iting games requiring out of town travel during October will stand;, but under the new interpretation of the ruling, four and possibly six Important games will be played by each university univer-sity in the conference during November. Novem-ber. The teams will bo granted furloughs fur-loughs for forty-eight hours twice next month to fulfill gridiron engagements. The suggestion to extend the season to include Thanksgiving day games and contests on tho following Saturday, Satur-day, came from tho war department oo