These rules were passed by the combined efforts of Yale and Harvard, but proved ineffective. A Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left open for future consideration the question of forming a new league.

We are of the opinion, that the action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport.

We are entirely in accord with the effort made by the students of this University so to reform college sports that they shall hereafter be played under rules which will limit participation in them to bona fide members of the University, who have never had any pecuniary profit from their sport; and we heartily approve the new rules (subjoined), which have lately been unanimously adopted by the Harvard Football and Baseball Associations, and have been sent to us with the request that they receive our sanction. They provide that no one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, who is not a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year's work, and who is not in a strict sense an amateur. They will hereafter govern the constitution of all teams in this College, whatever may be the rules in other colleges.

These rules are the best evidence of the sincerity of our students in their effor's for reform. Within them no objection will be made by this Committee to any arrangement entered into by the students, provided these arrangements avoid interference on the part of participants and students at large with that study which is the purpose and reason for which young men come to college.

In closing this communication, we beg to assure you that we deprecate the public nature of this discussion.

We have the honor, Gentlemen, to be,

Very respectfully yours, The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports:

JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE,

WILLIAM E. BYERLY,

ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Faculty members.

HENRY P. WALCOTT, '58,

WILLIAM HOOPER, '80,

GEORGE B. MORRISON, '83, Graduate members.

B. T. TILLON. '90.

S. V. R. CROSBY, '91,

NEAL RANTOUL, '92, Undergraduate members.