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

4s too rough end tough for the ons 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 that I rather omphasise.

Regarding your statement eneerning publicity, favorable or other
wise, I want to essure 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 mamb before the public unless I thought I had something to

say. And I do think definitely that I have something to say and will
continue to say it, not as basketball coach but as the head of the
department of Physical Education at the University of Kansas. (For your
information, Brewmie, I have never drawn as much salary for coaching
basketbell as I heve as direotor of athletics and physical education. )

    
  

 

  
   
  

/ There are so many young fellows thet are being misguided by the so~-

‘ galled big shot coach in athletios that I think it is high time for
/_gomebody to be et least half way honest with these youngsters. Stories
“jay die naturel deaths, but facts never will. The fact that we have

» gonference rules whichare being broken more then they are being kept
4s a fact and you know it.

 

Your own Cy Sherman, the argosy of footbell hopes, in his colum
"“trass Tacks", says:

"whe founders of football and all college sports, for that matter’,
gave thought only to the idea that athletica should be conducted
strictly on a basis of pure amateurism, but corrupting influences

| unquestionsbly have been permitted to imtrude their slimy presence
thus to make a mockery of the amateun pretense.

the head professor of basketball et Kensas U. apparently prefers
to lop off the head of the chicken rather than exterminate ita lice,
_“fhet proposal conveys no appeal to this colum. Football is a
sport so wholesome, $0 desirable especially in a time of a naticnal
crisis, as to merit a definite place in the educational scheme.

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“How then, can a tangible plan be worked out to save the gridiron

game from the fate wi-is> t-ef esa Allen end others, too, have fore-
seen? The problem is one which this column passes to che heads of

De the National Collegiate Athletic association, the body which has the

means end methods in its hands, but in the past - more's the pity - it

has failed, either through insipidity or cowardice, to uses" ce

  
 

 

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Certainly from as stalwert ‘enthusiast for football Ps Cy B,

_ unmistakably an open confession that he and all other insiders know
wh the mockery thet is now being practised under the guise of character

} building in a major sport ~ especially when big time ED

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