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You can't kill, or legislate out a spirit. Football represents so much of a spirit
of a game where mental, physical, and emotional expressions have a wholesome out-
let that youth will demand, and have, in one way or another. Therefore, It would
be folly for our colleges te attempt to kill the game. Histery of the sport tells
us Kings have tried to kill the game by making it punishable by death fer anyone
found guilty of starting a game ef football. In our own nation, in not so many
years back, State Legislatures have ruled the game out. Many Colleges tried to kill
the sport, but found it to be a leech that hung on in spité ef all opposition.
Nearly all college Presidents in the early years washed their hands of the game.
Later the game was tolerated, and, yet frowned upon by educators largely because
they did not understand the game, and were afraid of the administration of se
powerful an influence in the Colleges. I believe, sincerely, that the majority

of College Administrators today see in this game that has so great an incentive

and influence over student and spectator alike an adjunct to education that can-
not be duplicated enywhere in the Academic life.

All coaches should rise up in erms and ostracise one of their own member who brands
this fine group of men as “Beagle Hounds out sniffing the bushes fer athletes to
be given salaries for doing no work", Likewise, all prefessors should resent the
snap course idea, and fear of flunking an athlete, if a minimum of work has not
been completed.

The Coaching Prefession is heartily in accord with the University Administrators
controlling the Athletic situation to such an extent that the department is in
harmony with the aims and ideals of the institution of which it is a part. The
prefessions is net in harmony with the idea that the program is not an educational
ene and decidedly not worth while because it is a “money leser"®. The question of
its value cannot be measured in dollars and cents. We should be glad that 80 of
the 640 Universities did make a profit out of an educational feature. The proe=
fession does not condone any institution or individual who violates the ethics of
the game and profession. It is hardly in keeping with intelligent thinking for all
Coaches to be branded as "Beagle Hounds", or all Colleges to be accused ef paying
players, and all Professors to be accused of giving free rides, any more than it
would be rational thinking te say all Doctors were quacks and without ethics be-
cause a few of their profession were found guilty.

I have enjoyed some 20 years of association with athletics and the teacher of these
sports, and have found very little ground for such rash statements as made by
"Phog". It is regrettable when one who has earned his livlihood from the athletic
progrem for so many years to turn out to be unworthy of the respect of his fellow
coaches.

Such logic can only come from emotional judgment rather than rationalizing the
facts to be had. I for one could not sit by and allow such statements to go un-=
challenged. Hence this lengthy expression to you ef the view point of one who has
given many years to coaching and is leoking forward to the time when he can again
be a part of the great game of football, and allied coaching duties. When all
Coaches will put their shoulder to the wheel and push in trying to eliminate the
evils that are apparent to all, rabher than being a drag te a worth while
program. Then and only then, will we achieve fully the benefits that can and should
be a part of our intercollegiate contests and especially football in our American
Democratic Schools and Colleges.
P.S.-A copy has been sent Kindest regards
to the Dector in his
lair at K.U.
(Signed) W.H. Browne
Lt. Col Q.M.C.
110 Q.M. Regiment
Camp Rebinson, Arkansas
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