E. K. HALL '92 HEADS CAMP MEMORIAL COMMITTEE

E. K. Hall '92 is Chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Committee, and Professor James P. Richardson '99 chairman of the committee of the first district (New England) under that committee which will undertake to erect at Yale a memorial to the late Walter Camp.

The erection of this memorial is the outcome of a spontaneous desire, expressed by college men all over the country, to pay tribute to the memory of Walter Camp. Yale University took the first step in preparing a definite scheme along the general lines of the plan here described. Other proposals were consolidated under the leadership of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The committee named by Brigadier General Palmer E. Pierce, President of the National Collegiate Association, offered to co-operate with the committee appointed by the Corporation of Yale University in the creation of a national memorial in which all universities, college and schools could participate. Discussion by the two committees resulted in joint approval of the present plan.

The cost of the Memorial has been estimated at approximately $300,000. Of this amount, the Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, on behalf of universities, colleges and schools other than Yale, has undertaken to raise one half. It is hoped that all college and school men will join in the subscription in amounts large or small.

The memorial will stand in the midst of the Yale Athletic Fields, and will take the form of a monumental gateway, with enclosures, designed by John W. Cross, Yale, 1900. The plans have been approved by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Yale University.

It was on the Yale Athletic Fields that Walter Camp laid the foundation of his national fame. To all who see it the memorial will be a reminder of the enduring services of Walter Camp to the world of sport. What he did is too well known to everyone familiar with athletics in the United States to require any emphasis here. He well earned his title of "Father of American Football." Throughout a long and active career he threw his tremendous influence on the side of clean sport, hard physical training and sturdy manhood. Every institution and every individual taking part in intercollegiate athletics owes something to his lifelong efforts. He helped make American Football what it is today.