I. C. 4 A SUPPORTS STAND OF OLYMPIC COMMITTEE

The following article on the action of the I. C. A. A. A. A. at a meeting held early this week was written for the Crimson by S. deJ. Osborne '26. Osborne was manager of the University track team last year and also was in charge of the fiftieth annual championships which were held last May.

Another nail has been driven into the coffin of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At a meeting of its Executive Committee last Sunday, the I. C. A. A. A. A., the strongest collegiate administrative body now functioning, gave an unqualified vote of support to the American Olympic Committee and disapproved of the actions of the N. C. A. A. and its affiliated bodies. Following on the footsteps of the attacks on the A. A. U. and the Olympic body by the N. C. A. A. and the Y. M. C. A., the action of the I. C. A. A. A. A. is of marked importance.

The I. C. A. A. A. A. celebrated its fiftieth annual Track and Field meeting on Soldiers Field in Cambridge last May and is the oldest college sport body today. Its members number 40 colleges and are representative of all parts of the country. Under the leadership of Gustavus T. Kirby, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, this association has worked closely with the International Athletic Federation and has become the leader in the United States in the matter of rules of competition. It is not merely an advisory body but an administrative one to which all the larger eastern colleges and such western and middle western institutions as Michigan, California, Stanford, and Southern California belong.

The annual championships are now recognized as the national track championships in team competition and its rules and regulations have been marked by their great progressiveness.

The alliance of the I. C. A. A. A. A. with the A. A. U. on the Olympic Committee only accentuates the impotency of the recent break of the other associations. The organizations who have always done the work on the Olympic committees will continue to function whereas the ones that did the "looking-on" will now be carrying on their accustomed occupation from the outside rather than from within.