- 6 «

player had e sinecure job in college, and after his playing
days at school were over, professional football seemed the
most lucrative to this pseudo-student of hyper-athletic
leanings. The so-called illegal athletic scholarship carries
many scars far beyond the academic hall.

But from a practicalyY necessity, the s0=
called poor boy who is skilled in athletic endeavor looks to
his skilled physical activity as legitimate means of obtain-
ing a college education. When college days
called poor boy who has been fed on course but wholesome food
and has been forced to labor throughout the day and into the
night sometimes for a bare existence, is a fit subject for
the so-called illegal athletic scholarship because he is tough
enough to stand the football racket. And our average social
“nezzanine hurdler" and "cooky pusher" who is surfei ted on
the pre-digested food, the late hours, plus cocktail parties
and the automobile, is no fit subject for a coach4s perfect
dream, Who will say that this fearless and rugged chap, en-
dowed with nature's wonderful physique and a fine brain, hasn't
as much right toe use his God-given talents ais a favorable intro-
duction to a college education, as is the rotund and daper high —
school luminary with a Carusoan voice who uses his talents in
the finer arts?

 

mG UD, this s0~

It is a notorious fact that the wealthy
alumni of the Ivy League - some of the oldest colleges in
America - have long subsidized this so-called poor boy with
heavy and husky gastrocnemius and biceps muscles to the so-called