The educators who comprise the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association made another intelligent decision today. The NJSIAA members told those from North Jersey, who would force change on all football schedules, that things are fine the way they are.

By more than a 50-vote margin, NJSIAA members voted down a proposal originated by the Sussex County Interscholastic League that would, for example, have eliminated the Cape-Atlantic League in football and grouped all teams by enrollment. It would have forced some schools to play completely new schedules, whether they want to or not, and would have moved traditional Thanksgiving games - like Vineland-Millville, Oakcrest-Absegami and Mainland-EHT - to earlier dates in the season.

The whole measure basically came about, it seems, because Wallkill Valley High School can't seem to defeat Pope John XXIII in the Sussex County Interscholastic League and was looking for the easy way out.

The other measure voted down today, by just eight votes, was one that would no longer have required public schools to compete with non-public schools in any sport.

Though these two proposals were defeated, other measures will come before the NJSIAA executive committee on Wednesday that, if approved, would create some change. One of them would increase the waiting period for an athlete who transfers from one school to another without a change of address from 30 days to one calendar year.