Athletics and Football (extract)

ATHLETIC GOVERNMENT 233 in obtaining permanent treasurers. At Oxford, the old athlete, C. N. Jackson, tutor of Hertford College, has long and ably managed the businessconcerns of the O.U.A.C., whileat Cam­ bridge the popular Dean of Jesus, the Rev. E. H. Morgan, has long held a similar position with his Club. With the exception, however, of the permanent treasurerships, the re­ maining offices of the University clubs are entirely managed by the undergraduates themselves. At the beginningof every October term at Oxford (and we believeat Cambridge a term earlier) a general meetingof the representativesof the college athletic clubs is called. One man attends from each college to give the vote of those he represents. At this general meeting a president,secretary, and four other committee-men are chosen fromamongst the athletes whowill not have passed their fourth year of residence before the next Inter-'Varsity sports, and will therefore still be eligible to compete against Cambridge. The president, secretary,treasurer, and committee manage the club affairs, fix the dates of sports, and choose the representatives for the Inter-'Varsity contests. The Oxford and Cambridge meeting in London is managed jointly by the committees of both clubs, each of them deriving a substantial addition to its income from the ' gate money' taken from the large crowd of old University men and others who never fail to attend the ' Inter-'VarsitySports.' To pass from the Universities to London. Here we find one club based almost upon the same lines as the University clubs, and, like them, doing excellent work in promoting the growthof a healthy amateurism in the metropolis, although of late years it has had far greater difficultiesto contend withthan are ever likely to befall the University clubs. The London Athletic Club wasfounded in 1863 under another title, but in 1866 took its present name. Like the Oxford and Cambridge clubs it first held its sports at the old Beaufort House Ground, and then moved in 1869 to the newground of the A.A.C. at Lillie Bridge, whereits meetings were held until 1876,and it has now been for ten years upon its own ground at Stamford