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...speech threw a bombshell into that convention" said Mr. Geer to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "and for a time my project was the target for incessant criticism from a few of the delegates who were especially partisan. I suggested the limiting of High School competition to school competition to schools within a reasonable exodus of each other that is athletically related groups, and the adoption of working principles to guide schools in their athletic relations--principles similar to those that have guided the colleges that are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
During the time that Mr. Geer remained in Atlantic City, he was constantly called upon to elaborate his suggested innovation, and that he was successful in winning support for his plan is evidenced by his election as President for the coming year, although he had been forced to leave the convention before the conclusion of its sessions in Atlantic City...
Desiring to further his plan, Mr. Geer attended the annual Conference at Bridgewater of the Principals of the Junior and Senior High Schools in Massachusetts immediately after leaving Atlantic City...
...failed to get the support of some High School Athletic Associations while in Atlantic City" said Mr. Geer, "largely because some of the leaders failed to appreciate the function of athletics in the school. These men were willing to subordinate the health of pupils to the winning of post-season championshops after the winning of a rational kind of championship in connection with a tournament of games for an athletically related group of schools. I'm in this fight to the end and have planned a campaign which will bring this project before a great many of the educational institutions...
...Bridgewater" said Mr. Geer, "I had an opportunity to sit in at the postponed annual meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. I never sat through a meeting where the discussion seemed so pointless. Principals of schools were attempting to formulate a set of uniform eligibility rules for all schools in the state. They failed to recognize the utter impossibility of such a task, for conditions vary too much in different sections of the state. The athletically related group of schools in one district may very well have certain athletic traditions of a desirable nature that are not common...