nominate managers, and have final authority over athletic affairs. The
Committee was unable to prevent mismanagement of a baseball trip in
the spring of 1896, however, or to deal with serious financial difficul-
ties. The following autumn the faculty took over control of athletics
and student organizations placing its own special committee in charge
of their activities, including finances. The faculty also agreed to the
recommendations of an intercollegiate conference on athletics, pre-
sumably made up of Central New York colleges, that only bona fide
students be permitted to play on a team; that no player be allowed
more than two academic deficiencies; and that no player receive any
pecuniary consideration for participating in any sport.
There were those who saw football as leading to the disparagement
of intellectual pursuits and others who felt that because of frequent
and serious injuries it was too barbarous a sport. Opposed to the critics
were those who, like Dean Andrews, regarded it as an admirable
outlet for that “animal vitality”
which often led to pranks and worse
