Athletic Group Considers Changes In System of Major-Minor Sports

The Undergraduate athletic council is considering a recommendation to make soccer a major sport. This is the first of several actions being taken by the council toward the possible elimination of all distinctions between major and minor sports, president Frank H. White '55, disclosed yesterday.

Three members of the council are drawing up a statement of the basic theoretical aspects of the differences between major and minor sports, White said. The statement wil be used as the criterion for judging each individual sport.

In the report advocating the change in soccer's status, W. Burris Young '55, manager of soccer and wrestling, pointed out that soccer generates great undergraduate interest and that next year it will play a full Ivy League schedule.

Final approval for all changes in letter requirements must be given by the Faculty Committee on Athletics white added.

In its meeting this week, the undergraduate council decided that J.V. hockey should not be considered a minor sport because it was "not a full-fledged J.V. sport, and has not been established long enough."

The council did not recommend changes in the letter award systems in crew wrestling, and squash. It voted to consider the opinions of the coaches carefully before making future allegations in these as well as other sports.