Clipping:The power divide in the NA
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| Date | Saturday, January 3, 1874 |
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| Text | The laws of the game governing the eligibility of the players of a professional club, and the rules affecting the responsibility of players to clubs, and of clubs to players, need more careful revision this year than any other portion of the code. It must be remembered that while the organization of the Professional Association is of necessity such as to leave its government almost entirely in the hands of the club managers, thereby insuring their special interests being well looked after, there is positively nothing but the code of rules and regulation to give any authority for the protection of the inherent rights of the players. To a certain extent this is right; for it is but just that those who expend their capital and incur the risk of its loss should have the power to render those risks as few as possible. But it is also nothing but justice that the Association code of rules should guard the players from any oppressive enactments which would give only to one party–and that the more powerful–a despotic control over the services of the player. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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