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March 11--"A Two Sport Rule in Activities,"--formal discussion...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee held yesterday afternoon no definite action was taken in regard to making hockey a major sport, the motion being referred to the undergraduate members of the committee, under the rules of the committee. Rule 4 states: "The "H" may be awarded to any candidate for a University team by vote of the Committee upon the recommendation of the Captain." The undergraduate members, after considering the proposition, will report their decision back to the Athletic Committee. Such action is necessary before a definite decision can be reached...
...vote of the Student Council last evening it was decided to recommend to the Committee on Regulation of Athletics that hockey be made a major sport. This final decision is the outcome of a movement that was started several years ago and represents the present general opinion among the undergraduates that hockey as a game has the qualifications of a major sport and should be recognized as such. This elevation of hockey to the plane of major sports should serve to increase the popularity of and participation in the game and enable it to reach its highest efficiency...
Captain Abeles of the crew aggressively defended hockey as a major sport. "There is no sport in College for which the undergraduate enthusiasm is so great as in the case of hockey, with the possible exception of football and if the undergraduates as a whole show their enthusiasm this is one of the important arguments in its favor." That the facilities for hockey at present are inadequate is not a fair argument, for when track was made a major sport in 1892 there was much less available equipment than hockey has at present...
...Cummings, track captain, in speaking for the negative, emphasized the small number of men engaged in the sport, and showed that as yet the sys- tem by which the sport is run is inadequate and inferior to the major sport systems. There is no coaching and no individual training is attempted...