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Show I SPEED IN KNOWLEDGE MAY BAR ROMNEY FROM SPORTS AT CHICAGO f IN .1922 Captain-elect of Chicago University Football Team May Take Only Three Years to Graduate In- stead of Customary Four; Mit Formerly Starred at Utah BY ROY GIBBONS. pHICAGO March 24 Milton "Mit ' Romne; of Salt Lake, captain-L, captain-L, elect of ili" I nivcrsitx of Chicago's football team, may be declared de-clared ineligible from further participation in athletics. Roniney s ! ' trouble is a most peculiar one; 1h's too wise l'"r the resl of his IL'lass. It is 0 common occurrence for a . student to be declared Ineligible uc-J uc-J cause of ti low classroom average. Romney, because he's too Intelligent, i must suffer a like fate "If I had .nly been born n bone-ihead bone-ihead ;ill this would nl have happened hap-pened is the Way Romney puts It. Romney'a case Is withoua a pai illi I in college circles. Owing to hi! superior su-perior Intelligence and blue ribbon scholarship qualities he is" on the brink of being barred from athletics I nnd deprived of the great honor that has already been bestowed on him. captain of the 10 22 football team. Romney Is a senior, although he has attended college only a trifle over throe years. He already has 33 of the 36 points needed to graduate. If he remains In school another two months the one lacking point Mippllcs Itself automatically, making mandatory for Romney to accept! his degree. Under the conflBPem e rul Ron will then be unable to play because graduates arc forbidden to represent their college In any branch of sport, i Romney. with his degree, would not be able to play football, i It is Romnay's Intontloa to drup out of college so that he will not ac quire the one point needed to cive him his degree. He plans to re-enter in the fall, captain the football -iiad t and annex the other point ij However, there is another confer-1 1 ence rule that spoils such a scheme. 9 It says "A student Is pot eligible j to participate In athletics if he lias i not been in college the previous scm- , 3 ester." j Regardless of the rules. Romne 1 nays he intends to quit and return in the fall, whether or not he is pcr- ! mitted to play, j It Is understood that the univer- i sity authorities Intend to put the mat- j ter up to the confer-.-nce officials for ! a final ruling. There is a feeling that Romney will be permitted to play since hhs case is without . prj i -j dent. "Burning the midnight oil is the cause of It all," explains Roniney. I "I came to college primarily to MILTON ROMNEY. I study, but I also like to play foot- ball. Because I have been able to complete four years of study in three I am In danger of losing one year of football. "It seems that my case has been a great surprise to the public. I guess football fans had an idea that a grid-Iron grid-Iron athlete couldn't possibly have brain.--. 'I hat isn't true. "It isn't genius In a chap that counts. It's hi. willingness to plug. ' With ni'' my studies have always been first, football second. I have no more brains than any other fellow on our eleven. I simply plugged a little harder than most of them. ' If more fellows had to work the'r way through college us I did they'd accomplish more." Romney played quarterback on the 1921 eleven and scored the nine winning win-ning points against Princeton. |