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...athletic organization by a committee appointed last fall to conduct Yale athletics for the year 1915-16 and report on an improved system of athletic management, the present athletic association is to be abolished and a new one created which will delegate the authority to a central board of control. The feature of the new system, just adopted by the Yale Corporation, is that it takes the exclusive control of athletic affairs out of undergraduate boards and places it in the hands of a responsible body, of large enough graduate and faculty membership to make it permanent...
...captains of the four leading intercollegiate sports--rowing, football, baseball and track--and the representatives of the general sports, is to name annually a committee of five graduates to have charge of those sports during the year. The nominations for these committees must be acceptable to the Board of Control of the Association. The chairmen of these five committees, together with two faculty members from the college and sheff., annually chosen by those faculties and eight graduates or undergraduates at large, to be annually chosen by the corporation, are to form a Board of Control which shall have charge...
...undergraduate managers of the various teams are henceforth to be chosen by the Board of Control 'upon the basis of such competitive test as shall from time to time be approved...
...with whom to work out a system's problems are retained, except that their choices must be acceptable to the permanent body. Each athletic committee has full jurisdiction over all phases of its particular sport, internal and intercollegiate except that its acts must be authorized by the Board of Control. The whole loose present system is pulled together by this reorganization, responsibility and authority are exactly specified, that responsibility is placed in adequate and permanent hands and faculty interest enlisted in guiding the conduct of the students' sports...
...been accepted or rejected as seemed best to the particular undergraduates involved. At times serious mistakes and misunderstandings have resulted, occasioning injury to Yale's name in the conduct of its athletic relations with other institutions. It has become increasingly evident that with the ever-changing nature of such control, as men pass from the college world to be succeeded by others of less experience, no permanent policy or fixed direction in athletic matters can be assured...