THE TAR HEEL, NOVEMBER 29, 1921
Carolina Playmakers
In Three Original Folk Plays
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Comedy of mountain characters
-By Jane Toy.
Trista
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A play of folk superstition
-By Elizabeth Lay.
Waffles for Breakfast
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A comedy of newly married life
By Mary T. Yellotte.
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FACTS ABOUT GRIDIRON
DISPUTE EXPLAINED BY
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
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There should be no misunder
standing on one point. The Vir
ginia team, students and alumni, in
taking their stand, did not thereby
surrender or change their opinion
on the original point at issue. Most
of them consider their interpreta
tion of hte contract between the
universities the correct interpreta
tion, just as Carolina considers its
own interpretation the right one.
But they have absolutely repudiated
their nominating persons on the
faculty committee leadership on the
question that, as far as the public
is concerned, was the main ques
tion, that is, the calling off of the
game at the last minute because
Carolina declined to take the Vir
ginia view of the contract and dis
qualifying one of its players.
I am not giving here merely the
Chapel Hill point of view on this
matter. There were many hundreds
of Virginians here Thursday, and
they talked with the utmost free
dom about the episode. Almost with
one accord they agreed that the
original argument about the mean
ing of a certain clause in the con
tract had been made a secondary
matter by the action of the Virginia
committee on cancelling the game
because Carolina would not rule
Johnson off. Regardless of which
side was right in interpreting the
agreement, they branded the can
cellation as indefensible. I talked
with a numher of Virginia students
about the affair, and friends of
mine have told me of their conver
sations with Virginia alumni, some
of these being prominent citizens of
Virginia and influential in their
alumni organization. Among them
all, students, and alumni, opinion on
this point was about solid.
Not Fixing Responsibility.
It is not the part of North Caro
linians to fix the individual re
sponsibility for the Virginia com
mittee's action. We here would not
undertake to do so, not having com
plete knowledge of what goes on at
Charlottesville. But we don't have
to. The Virginians do it for us,
and do not mind doing it openly.
They charge the cancellation of the
game or, as it happily has to be
described now, the attempted can
cellation as Carolina considers to
the leadership of Doctors Lambeth
and Lefevre.
One point put forward with much
emphasis by Lefevre, in the discus
sions here on Tuesday, was that he
was not acting as an individual in
his purpose to consider the game
cancelled if North Carolina refused
to take his view of the meaning of
the contract, but as trustee for
others whose interests he was bound
to protect meaning the Virginia
students and alumni.
He was asked: "Suppose you are
right in your interpretation of what
we should do? We don't admit that
you are, but suppose that you were?
Do you not think that it would be
the sportsmanlike thing to do, con
sidering that you did not lodge your
protest until such a short time be
fore the game, and considering that
we entered into the contract in per
fect good faith, and in view of the
fact that the established agreement
between the two institutions is that
the faculty of each institution should
have the final word as to the eligi
bility of the players, don't you think
it would be the sportsmanlike thing
to do to allow us to play Johnson
and to go ahead and play the game
under that circumstance?
To this he replied, in effect: "If it
were only a case of me as an indi
vidual, I would be inclined to do
what you suggest. But I am acting
for others, and I must consider their
interests. For me to follow the
course you suggest would be to do
those whom I represent a grave in
jury. Now we have, from those whom he
and Dr. Lambeth represented, their
judgment as to whether he repre
sented them as they would have him
do. It is plain that he put a far
lower estimate upon their spirit than
they were willing to accept, for no
sooner had his decision been made
than the student body at Charlottes
ville held a mass meeting and voted
that the game be played be played,
in the words of the telegram sent to
Captain Lowe of Carolina by Cap
tain Rinehart of Virginia, "Johnson
or no Johnson, preferably Johnson."
At the same time or a few hours
later, the Virginia alumni in Rich
mon were meeting and adopting
resolutions condeming the cancella
tion, and on Wednesday they ap
pealed to President Alderman to
send the team to Chapel Hill and
1 play the game, no matter which side
was interpreting the contract cor
rectly. Difference of Opinion
It is not suggested that Dr. Le
fevre was not entirely sincere in his
statement of what he considered the
best interest of those whom he rep
resented. I am merely setting down
the fact that these persons, as far
as any body can tell from what they
have said and done in the last few
days, plainly do not hold his opinion.
When the troubled meetings of
last Tuesday were over, when the
University of North Carolina faculty
had adopted a resolution supporting
its committee on athletics, and when
this resolution had been handed to
Dr. Lefevre, he did not send it on to
Charlottesville to allow the Univer
sity of Virginia community to know
Considered Johnson' Cae
This season the Carolina faculty
committee had considered the case
of Johnson at the beginning of the
season. Some members of the com
mittee were frankly desirous of dis
qualifying him, because he had play
ed at another institution last fall.
But it was found that there was no
rule under which he could be ruled
out. He had measured up to the
standards of scholarship laid down.
So he was declared eligible.
He played openly in all the games
this season. The question then arises
why was not the attention of the
North Carolina committee called to
the case earlier. To this Dr. Le
fevre's reply is "We had a plain
contract with you, in which it was
stipulated that you would abide by
the rules of A. C. S. S. U. We knew
this amendment had been adopted.
We assumed of course that you knew
it. If you didn't know it was your
fault, not ours. Johnson might play
in other games because there was no
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what stand the University of North ! rule of yours to prevent him from
Carolina had taken, or what reasons playing in them, but your contract
it had given for its stand. He did with us did explicitly disqualify him
not, as was learned later from Vir
ginians, telephone or telegraph at
once anything about the discussions
that had taken place during the day,
or what these discussions had
brought out, in order to find out if
Virginia might possibly modify its
position. He simply wired home that
the game had been cancelled.
So much for the matter of can
celling the game. I will now review
the facts in the dispute, which until
now have necessarily been made
known only in fragmentary form, as
they developed from hour to hour,
and which, naturally enough and
properly enough, were somewhat lost
sight of in the excited questioning
as to whether or not the game would
be played.
Carolina and Virginia entered into
a contract providing for the foot
ball games of 1921 and 1922. One
clause of this contract stipulated
that the eligibility of players at
each institution should be determined
in accord with the rules published
in its catalogue, and also in con
formity with the rules of the Ath
letic Conference of Southern States
Universities, commonly spoken of as
the A. C. S. S. U. Nine days before
Thanksgiving Day a letter from Dr.
Lefevre was received here citing an
announcement of the A. C. S. S. U.
rules, which amendment would bar
W. I. Johnson from participation
in the Thanksgiving Day game.
According to ur. Leievre, a rep
resentative of the University of
North Carolina, now since departed
from Chapel Hill to live in New
York, attended the meeting of dele
gates in 1916, at which the amend
ment was adopted. Dr. Lefevre's
statement as to this is not disputed.
There is no evidence of it on rec
ord here, but all information ob
tained tends to show that it is true.
The amendment, though adopted in
1916, was not to go into effect until
1917. The war came on. Intercol
legiate athletics were forgotten.
The secretary of the meeting at
which the amendment was adopted
never sent any record of it to the
University of North Carolina, or if
he did nobody ever knew anything
about it.
After the letter from the Univer
sity of Virginia had been received
here a few days ago, and when this
gentleman, Mr. Coleman, the repre
sentative of the University of South
Carolina, was appealed to for infor
mation, he telegraphed that, in leav
ing hurriedly for the war he had
failed to turn any papers over to a
successor. And he added that at
South Carolina they had never ob
served the amendment. The repre
sentative of the University of Ten
nessee also telegraphed that the in
stitution had never considered itself
bound by the amendment. These
two institutions, with North Caro
lina, make up a majority of the five
members of the old A. C. S. S. U.,
the other two being Virginia and
from the Carolina-Virginia game,
The North Carolina faculty com
mittee for many years has steadfast
ly refused to accede to the sugges
tion, sometimes advanced, that it
sanction one set of eligibility rules
for contests with some colleges, and
another set for contests with other
colleges. This has been a fixed policy
and has often been announced. Until
Dr. Lefevre made the statement that
he assumed Carolina was qualifying
its men to play against State Col
lege, Maryland, V. M. I. and David
son by rules different from those
laid down for the Virginia game, it
was considered incredible here that
anybody so familiar with the ath
letic policies of Virginia's competi
tors, and who had been in such fre
quent communication with the Uni
versity of North Carolina athletic
authorities, should be under the im
pression that North Carolina had a
double eligibility standard. But that
was what he thought.
It must be held constantly in mind
that the lateness of the protest about
Johnson is held to be a crucial con
sideration in the episode. Held so
not only by North Carolinians but
by all the Virginians who have dis
cussed the matter here. I have had
this made plain by many of them
who have talked to me, and the pub
lished accounts of their attitude con
firms it. The Virginia faculty com
mittee's spokesman said that it was
of course unfortunate, but that none
I the less it did not relieve North Caro-
olina of the obligation of observing
the amendment which barred John
son. North Carolina held that when
Virginia made such an eleventh hour
protest the burden of proof was on
Virginia to show that the amend
ment had been ratified and was an
effective and valid rule of the con
ference; that she, North Carolina,
had made what efforts she could to
find out, and that two of the institu
tions, making with herself a majority
of the five members, had notified her
that the amendment was not con
sidered an effective and valid rule
at these institutions. Since she had
entered into the contract in perfect
good faith, and still believed she
was keeping it, she could not with
justice disqualify the player in ques
tion.
Here may be taken into consid
eration a point that hps been made
in some, though not many, quarters.
It is that Carolina, when Virginia
demanded that Johnson should not
play, might have said, in order to
save the game: "Very well, since
you think he ought not to play,
even though we believe he is eli
gible, even though he has measured
up to our eligibility rules and the
team has been ouilt up largely
around him since you protest him
we will yield to :"iur interpretation
and eliminate him."
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