Yours ever, Jack.
For several years past there has been considerable ill-feeling among the schools of the Boston interscholastic organization against the Cambridge High and Latin School. This feeling has arisen from the fact that the High-School and Latin School of Cambridge are two separate and distinct institutions, presided over by separate officials, and yet the scholars of the two schools join forces in athletics, and appear upon the field with teams made up from the strongest and best material to be found in both bodies. In years past, when the participation in out-door sports was not so general among the student body as it is now, there may have been good reason for allowing these two schools of the same town to join forces in athletics. But as matters progressed, and more and more of the students became trained in the science of football and baseball, it seemed manifestly unfair toward the smaller schools in the league to allow the Cambridge team to draw upon so much larger a field for material.
The question of having the Interscholastic Football Association step in and interfere with the combination has been agitated for some time, and the opposition at last came to a head at the meeting of the executive committee last week. On this occasion a specific charge was brought against the football management of the Cambridge High and Latin football team, and as a result the following resolution was formulated and adopted:
Whereas, Cambridge High and Latin played a man through the entire season who was at no time a member of either school;
Resolved, That Cambridge High and Latin be dropped from the Association, and that no member or manager of the 1895 team be allowed to play in league games, except at the request of the head-master of the school he may attend; that the Cambridge High and Cambridge Latin schools be admitted separately to the Junior Interscholastic League.
After adopting these resolutions, however, the executive committee decided that if the head-master of either school should so request, they would reconsider their vote. But as matters now stand the Association no longer recognizes the Cambridge High and Latin School as an athletic organization, and if sportsmen of either school desire in the future to enter any interscholastic football contests, they will have to apply for membership in the Junior League as separate institutions. But even if such application should be made, and were it accepted, as it probably would be, neither school can play upon any team it organizes any man who had any connection, either in a playing or a managing capacity, with the football eleven of last fall, except, possibly, at the special request of the head-master.