Athletes Disciplined – 1909
University Athletes Disciplined
Members of College Basketball Team Scored By President Duniway
Yesterday afternoon the six young men who compose the University of Montana basketball team were summoned for an interview with President Duniway, to explain their absence from the institution last Friday, when the young men in question went to Anaconda to play an independent basketball team of that city.
Several members of the varsity ball team are ineligible to take part in intercollegiate athletics this semester, because of the failure to make the required number of hours during the first semester. As a result of this condition the schedules of games was cancelled with the exception of a game with the Anaconda team.
President Duniway explained to the basketball men that their action in playing one of the regular scheduled games was very much in violation of the faculty rules, and that he would be under the necessity of putting the athletes under discipline. After the interview on the “carpet” was over, President Duniway issued the following statement.
“The six students who took part in the basketball game in Anaconda on February 5 under the name “Missoula team” have been reprimanded by the president for their action. It appears, however, that owing to a misinterpretation of the university rules governing such matters there was no intention to violate the regulations. Under these circumstances a minimum penalty has been imposed to mark the university’s disapprobation. For one week the six students concerned are debarred from the privilege of the gymnasium in connection with basketball.”
The above article appeared in The Daily Missoulian on February 9, 1909.