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              alumni and of the authorities of the university further resolutions adopted de cember ii 1894 providing for representation in the uni versity athletic committee for the current scholastic year of 1894-95 " resolved that the committee for the current scholastic year shall be constituted as follows : as the representative of thie board of trustees professor wil liam 11 chandler to hold office until his successor shall be chosen in june 1897 the faculty are requested to select an instructor to hold office until his successor shall be chosen in june 1895 the third faculty member being the acting director of the gymnasium the faculty are requested also to name the fac ulty member of the auditing com mittee to serve for the current scholastic year " the executive committee of the alumni are requested to name four 4 alumni members of the university athletic committee two 2 to hold office until their suc cessors shall be appointed in june 1895 and two to hold office until their successors shall be appointed in june 1896 also to name the alumni member of the aediting committee to serve for the current scholastic year the students as a body are re quested to select their member at large of the university athletic committee and the three under graduate members of the auditing committee to serve for the current scholastic year the representa tives of the seniqr junior sopho more and freshman classes in the present athletic association of the university shall be the representa tives of said classes in the new university athletic committee for the current scholastic year ; their successors to be elected in the manner designated in the rules heretofore adopted " the committee as thus con stituted for the current scholastic year is requested to meet and or ganize as soon as practicable afer the opening of the second term " resolved that the secretary of the board of trustees be and is hereby requested to notify the alumni the faculty and the under graduates of the university of this action and that the resolution and plan be published before the end of this term in the burr and the bkown and white ♦ 1 casper whitney has chosen the following ail-american team for 1894 butterworth captain and full back ; knipe brooke half-backs ; adee quarter ; stillman centre ; wheeler and hickock guards ; waters and lea tackles ; f hin key and gelbert ends substitutes : beard wharton a brewer on the line thorne and ward behind the line athletics the university authorities take charge of athletic management the lehigh univeesity south bethlehem ) dec 13 1894 f to the alumni faculty and under graduates of the lehigh uni versity — gentlemen by direction of the executive committee of the board of trustees i beg to transmit here with for your information a copy of the resolutions and plan relative to athletics at lehigh adopted dec 11 1894 yours truly e p wilbur secretary of the board of trustees of lehigh university editors brown and white south bethlehem pa resolutions and plan adopted by the trustees of the le high university dec 11 1894 governing the conduct of athletics at lehigh from and after jan 1 1895 whereas it is deemed by this board essential to the proper con duct of athletics at lehigh that they be controlled by a carefully constituted committee of recognized authority in accordance with the recommendations recently made by the ahimni in this regard " he-solved that the exclusive con trol of the athletic grounds and the absolute and exclusive control and direction of all the athletic interests and contests of the university is hereby placed in the hands of a committee to be known as the le high university athletic committee such committee shall consist of twelve 12 members as follows : one 1 member of the faculty to be chosen by the board of trustees and one 1 member of the board of instructors to be chosen by the faculty in june each year to serve for the ensuing scholastic year also the director of the gymnasium whose duties shall in his absence devolve upon the first assistant di rector or acting director ; the fore going three 8 members to be known as the faculty members four 4 alumni who shall be chosen by the executive committee of the alumni association at their june meeting two each year the trustees suggest that the alumni members shall preferably be resi dents of bethlehem or vicinity five 5 undergraduate mem bers four 4 to be elected in the second term of each year prior to commencement one by the college at large and one each by the senior junior and sophomore classes ; the fifth member to be elected by the freshman class within thirty days after the opening of the fall term of the faculty members the pro fessors and instructors shall hold office for two 2 years one retiring each year ; the director of the gymnasium or the first assistant or acting director shall continue a member of the committee by virtue of his office until relieved by the board of trustees the alumni members shall hold office for two scholastic years two retiring each year the undergraduate members shall hold office for one 1 scholas tic year provided they remain dur ing such year members of the class from which they were elected any member of the committee shall be eligible for re-election or reappointment this committee subject only to the board ef trustees and in confer ence with the faculty shall direct the policy of the university in all athletic matters and it alone shall have the power to say what teams and in individual contests what individuals shall represent lehigh it or those whom it may designate shall alone have authority to solicit subscriptions for the support of athletics at lehigh it may call meetings of the undergraduates for the consideration of questions affecting or connected with athletics at the university and it shall be the duty of the committee to give careful attention to properly ac credited communications from the students at large to the end that the students as a body may have the opportunity at any time of ex pressing their views to said com mittee said committee shall have power to appoint such managers and to engage such trainers coach es etc as it may deem best and to frame such rules for its own government and for the practical management in detail of athletics as shall seem to it proper the choice of captains of the several teams shall be subject to its ap proval and if at any time a change of captain in any team or teams shall appear desirable to the com mittee it shall have power to dis place the captain previously chosen and io appoint a new captain in his place no business shall be trans acted by the committee except at its regular stated meetings or at special meetings properly called in accordance with such rules as the committee shall adopt and at all meetings a quorum consisting of two 2 faculty members two 2 alumni members and two 2 undergraduate members shall be requisite for the transaction of business the committee shall elect or designate from its own number such officers and sub committees as it may deem proper but no mem ber of the committee shall be elig ible for the position of captain of a team there shall be appointed annually during the second term and prior to commencement an auditing committee of five 5 of whom one 1 shall be a professor or an instructor one l)an alumnus and three shall be undergraduates said committee to serve for the en suing scholastic year no member of the university athletic commit tee shall be eligible as a member of the auditing committee the members representing the alumni shall be appointed annually by the executive committee of the alumni association the faculty member by the faculty and the three under graduate members shall be elected by the students as a body " if during any year any vacancy occurs in the auditing committee or in the university athletic com mittee the university athletic committee may for the remainder of the college year fill the vacancy such substitute to be a member of the same body which the retiring member represented " the officer of the university athletic committee having charge of the funds shall keep the same deposited with a bank or trust company to be selected by the committee and the disbursement of funds shall be subject to such regulations as the committee shall deem proper said officer must make such reports to the univer sity athletic committee and to the auditing committee as they may desire and at such times as they shall direct and his books shall at all times be subject to their in spection in june of each year and at least one week prior to commencement day the univer sity athletic committee shall make a written report covering all the financial transactions of the various teams and of the committee as a whole during the year to the chairman of the university athletic committee to the president of the alumni association and to the president of the senior class and they in turn shall respectively make known the contents of this report to the trustees to the alumni and the undergraduates it is hereby stated and the university athletic committee and all persons dealing with said com mittee must distinctly understand that neither the university as such nor the board of trustees will be in any way directly or indirectly responsible financially for contracts or engagements entered into by said committee " the trustees approve of and desire to encourage athletics at the university provided they can feel sure that they will be conducted under conservative careful and business-like management their object in passing these resolutions is not to curb unduly or unneces sarily the administration of athlet ics by the undergraduates but to tentatively establish a system that will give the undergraduates in the management of athletics the co-operation and active help of the trustees of the faculty and of the alumni believing that the athletic interests of the university thus more than ever before will be pro moted to the mutual satisfaction of the undergraduates of the lehigh university south bethlehem pa december 17 1894 the brown and white no 26 vol 11