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A high school or college teacher desires security and good
will the same as does the manual laborer. A teacher of young men desires .
security, an athletic coach desires security, but there can be no simi
under the present plan with subsidized football and basketball because
the followers of subsidized athletics demand a sure-fire winner every timée
So-called athletic boosters pay their subsidized money into a secret fund
to insure thise Every coach in the same conference cannot win the champ=
ionship for he Sets Winning a championship is very uncertain. And when
successive losses accumulate, shes the emotional frenzy of the disappointed
athletic booster demands a change in the coaching personnel.

Five years is considered a long-term contract in football or
basketball snus But five years is a short while in a lifetime of
coachinge The mortality table shows that three years is the average
tenure of a coach before changing positions. The present hypercritical
subsidizing of college athletes works against the security of . coach 's
longer tenures

Cy Sherman, sports writer and newspaper man at Lincoln,
‘Nebraska, in his sports colum, "Brass Tacks", says: “The founders of
football and all 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.
ce eee How then can a tangible plan be worked out to save the gridiron
game from the fate which certain individuals have foreseen? The problem
is one which this column passes to the heads of the Neti onal Collegiate

Athletic Association, the body which has the means and methods in its