COUNCIL ADOPTS RULE IN SOPHOMORE COMPETITION

After an investigation in which it was found that men in the sophomore athletic managerial competition who were low in studies in their freshman year went lower while working down at the gym and the men with averages above 20 kept their grades well up after they were elected to compete, the Athletic Council decided to eliminate automatically the low scholarship men by keeping out of the competition all those with an average of less than 2.0 for the freshman year.

Data also has been accumulated to show that men who rate high in the classroom usually do as well in the competition, since only one man with poor scholarship in the past four years has held the managership in one of the major sports. By this step the Athletic Council hopes to secure that none but the best men be elected to compete for the managerships. It also believes that the scholastic requirement for election will prove a stimulus throughout the freshman year to men who plan to enter the competition.