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Show advocated reform In football fire- seasons sea-sons ago, and brought about changes which eventually were merged into the present rules. Captain Palmer E. Pierce. U, S. A , of Fort Leavenworth, Kan., who wo formerly in charge of nthleticH at West Point, is head of the association. " Resldea football, the association will consider various questions of Importance Impor-tance relative to baseball, busketball, track athletics, and proper control of intercollegiate contests. The formal program of addresses Includes1 "A Chronicle of tho Amateur Spirit." Spir-it." by Professor R. Talt McKenzie, University of Pennsylvania, "Conference Direction and Control of Athletics in the (Middle West'," by ; Professor Arthur G. Smith, State Unl-versity Unl-versity of Iowa. "Athletics as a Function In National Nation-al Ufe," by Rev. Charles F. Akcd. ' NEW FOOTBALL RULES 1 WILL BE CONSIDERED I New York. Dec. 9. Tho new foot- hall rules will come up for critical J consideration at the fifth annual mect- ing of the Iulercolleglate Athletic as- J soclatlon. which convenes at the Ho- ' tel Astor on Thursday; Dec. 29. Sixty-eight universities and colleges are Included in the membership l thj ii apKoelation, most of the bottrr known J football colleges being represented, ' with the exception of Yale, Princeton and Cornell. It wa9 this organization that flrbt |