UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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THE UNIVERSITY FINDS ITSELF

athletic committee—this report to be conclusive. Each player must sign a statement as to his eligibility. All athletic association accounts must be audited by a committee on which the faculty was represented, and the legitimate expenses of team members were enumerated, the difference between ordinary board and the training table being admitted as one. Not all the universities lived up to this set of rules, though Minnesota, Purdue, and Illinois most honorably did. Three universities for a time refused to accept the six months' rule, and Chicago also refused to bar team members who had formerly accepted money for playing, but who were in college sports when the rule was passed. Wisconsin's students and faculty were in the main supporters of the rules, but the football managers obtained the defeat of some of them through the regents. Some Illinois students thought at this time, probably unjustly, that various rivals were out to win by hook or crook. At Chicago one man, remarked the indignant Illini, "has been in athletics there since the institution opened. He will probably be there when Macaulay's New Zealander stands on the wreck of London Bridge and views the ruins of modern civilization. I t is an open secret that Nichols has for several years played games for money.| Such accusations were bandied rather too loosely in the Conference, and there was a resultant illfeeling of covert sort among many members, especially when, as often happened, one team defeated another through challenged men. Thus after Chicago's victory over Illinois in 1896 Nichols was more execrated than ever. The activities of clubs and societies naturally multiplied during a period of such expanding registration. Next to the Athletic Association, the Christian Associa-