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The warp and woof of the average football player at the present time

is too rough end tough for the sons of coaches to compete against. Per-
haps I should have said that we would rather have a son of ours major

in a profession, and not in football as it is now conducted. True, there
are exceptions, but it is the rule thet I rather emphasise.

Regarding your statement concerning publicity, favorable or other~

wise, I want to assure you that I have never sold my face for a banana

- ad, or Grape-nuts, or ‘Luckies, or what-not. Nor have I endeavored to
keep my namewbefere the public unless I thought 1 had something to

pay. And ; ink definitely that I have something to say and will

continue to say it, not a6 basketball coach but as the head of the

department of Physical Education at the University of Kanses. (For your

information, Brownie, I have never drewn as much salery for coaching

‘basketbell as I have as director of athletics and physical education.)

 
 
 

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There are so many young fellows &hat are being misguided by the so-
called big shot coach in athletics that I think it is high time for
somebody to be at least half way honest with these youngsters. Stories
mey die naturel deaths, but fects never will. The fact that we have
conference rules whichare being broken more than they are being kept
is a fact and you know it.

Your own Cy Sherman, the argosy of football hopes, in his colum
"prass Tacks", seyss

“the founders of football and ell college sports, for that matter,
gave thought only to the idea that athletics should be conducted
strictly on a basis of pure amateurism, but corrupting influences
unquestionably have been permitted to intrude their slimy presence,
thus to make a mockery of the amateur pretense.

“whe head professor of basketball at Kansas U, apparently prefers

to lop off the head of the chicken rather then exterminate its lice.
“That proposal conveys no appeal to this column, Football is a.
sport so wholesome, $0 desirable especially in a time of a national
crisis, as to merit a defini |

 
 

te place in the educational scheme.

“wow then, cen a tangible plan be worked out to save the gridiron
game from the fate which Frefes 0. Allen and others, too, have fore-
seen? The problem is one whieh this column passes to the heads of
the National Collegiate Athletic association, the body which has the —
means and methods in its hands, but in the past - more's the pity - it
has failed, either through insipidity or cowardice, to usel"

Cowardice is the word that should be used.

Certainly from as stalwart enthusiast for footballes Cy is, this is
ummistakably an open confession thet he and all other insiders know
the mockery that is now being practised under the guise of character
building in a mejor sport - especially when big time proselytors work.