Selecting the Official

The agreement of Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth to entrust the selection of football officials for their major contests to an independent disinterested authority will undoubtedly be brought up and ratified at a meeting of athletic representatives from the leading colleges of the East in New York this evening. Such a method of selection has been in vogue in the Western Conference for some time where the officials for the Big Ten games are chosen by a man without connections with any of the universities.

The advantages of such a method of selection are apparent. In the past it has been the general custom to have the rival coaches select their own officials, thus indirectly, and sometimes directly, exerting an influence upon the temper of the official's judgment. The small college has often maintained that it was the victim of unfair decisions solely because the official was dependent upon the larger university for continued employment. Under the proposed plan, the criticism will be impossible, for it will provide a background which will be entirely free from favoritism--Cornell Daily Sun.