Undergraduates in Football.

An important meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association was held in New York at the Windsor Hotel, Saturday night. The meeting was decidedly more harmonious than was anticipated and all the suggestions made at last week's session were adopted. Only undergraduates may hereafter play on the college football teams, and while the University of Pennsylvania does not like the move it is hardly probable that the Pennsylvania men will retire from the association. The delegates present were: A. Maffitt and Vance C. McCormick, of Yale; George C. Fraser, J. McN. Thompson and Philip King, of Princeton; A. Thorndike and W. Gordon, of Wesleyan; John C. Bell, of the Advisory Board; Mr. Thornton and the newly elected captain of the eleven were present to look after the interests of the University of Pennsylvania.

The first business taken up was the troublesome undergraduate question which has caused so much discussion. Yale suggested the plan, and she stated her case so well that Princeton and Wesleyan were soon in line. The University of Pennsylvania men opposed the scheme vehemently, but they were outnumbered three to one, and against such odds they were forced to succumb, and the rule was passed. It is as follows:

"No member of a graduate department or special student shall be eligible, nor any undergraduate who is registered or has attended lectures or recitations at any other university or college, nor any undergraduate who is not pursuing a course for a degree requiring attendance for at least three years."

The University of Pennsylvania men disliked the rule, but they said nothing in the meeting about resigning. Cornell sent in an application for admission to the Association, but the application was laid on the table to be brought up at another meeting. It was said at the time that in case the University of Pennsylvania resigned Cornell would step in to fill the vacancy.