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wajor college freshman-rule.

Purther, I am proposing to the American Association of Colleges
ena Universities that they enact a national Athletic no-transfer
rule whereby when a student, regardless of his previous ethletile
participation, trenefers from one eollege to another, his —
athletie participation cesaes,

Purther, that they pormit no twoeyear resident university to
schedule games with the one-year resident colleges The smell school,
Gesiring to project itself unduly end unproportionately inte the
athletic spotlight-big time football, is one of the mejor contri«-
butory causes of thie athletic hysteria.

The real purpose of & ments going to collage ie to get an
education. The playing of games is s leudeble eddition to the study
curriculum, and indeed is a necessary Dit of laboratory work for the
youth who wants to become an athletic coach.

But two yeare of competition is encughe This two-year period
should give the athlete time te ear an athletic letter, which is,
efter all, the objective of the men who goos out for a Varsity
eportse Additionel letters moan littlee In the gajor colleges it
might be well to continue freshman teams, a6 at present without inter-
collegiate competition, wd to maintain seconmi-yesr mon @S & junior
Varsity, whieh eould sehedule « limited number of gazes with eimiler
teams from other major universities or with fresheen tears of minor
universities that were operating under the three-year rule. Of |
course, many detalles of thie proposed plan would have to be worked
out by © speetal feculty representative group assivted by athletic
Girectors. Undeniably the present freshmen rule, which was ineu-
gurated eat stendard univorsities, some thirty years ago, war the