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In glancing over the tables one fact stands out in many institutions,
and that is the large number of persons making up the committee. Prob-
ably other committees in the same institutions would be made up of a
smaller number of persons. Probably the one reason for the large number
making up the committee is found in the history of the development of
intercollegiate athletics. Athletics began as outside activities and the
faculty members paid little attention to them until they had developed in-
to large spectacles. They were directed to a great extent by alumni and
others outside the faculty, and it has taken time for the faculty to get con-
trol of them. Within the past fifteen years there has been a growing ten-
dency to place athletics more and more under control of a faculty com-
mittee. The total number of members of the athletic committees of the
200 institutions studied are 1238, or an average of 6.2 persons to each com-
mittee or institution. :

Credit for establishing the following athletic rules should go to tne
faculty members and departments of intercollegiate athletics. 1. Three
years of competition. 2. Freshman rule. 3. The transfer rule. These rules
have been formed through the organization of college conferences in the
various states. Athletic conferences have done much to raise the level of
intercollegiate athletic competition. Some of the accrediting agencies of
higher education have insisted that members belong to a conference con-
trolled by faculty members. This brings concerted action by a large num-
ber of institutions on our athletics and helps the administrators in solving
their athletic problems.

Department control of intercollegiate athletics is another form of in-
terest to all. In this method the work is handled thru the head of the de-
partment in the manner of other departments in the institution. With the
proper man ai the head this is the best way of handling our intercollegiate
athletics. The men in the work see the dangers and think of correcting
them before other faculty members are able to do so. In the 1924 stuay
of 151 institutions there was but one institution that had departmentai
control with no committee. That institution was Carleton College. This
study eight years later shows the following institutions with no com-
mittee and departmental control. The ten institutions are: University of
Cincinnati, Ohio University, Amherst College, Carleton College, Centra!
College, Holy Cross College, Ohio Northern University, University of Chi-
cago, State Teachers College, Fairmount, W. Va. and Eau Claire, Wisconsin
State Teachers College. In eight years this plan has increas2d from one insti-
tution vo ten institutions, and some of them large institutions. The presi-
dent felt that, with the right man to head the department, they would pre-
fer to leave the athletic policies of their institutions largely to his judge-
ment.

Some athletic conferences have selected a commissioner to handle all
matters of the conference, and especially those duties which, if handled