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Cy says that apparently we prefer to lop off the head of the chicken |
rather than to de-louse it. Certainly I do not believe in lopping off
the head of such a fine sport as football. I merely pointed out to thes
high school and college players that these coaches and the so-called
friends of football are the ones who are killing it, and the yelp that —
the coaches emit shows that they lure been struck by missiles which |
hit the mark.

When a gardener trims excessive branches from a grapevine he does it
to improve the fruit. il |
Brownie? By lopping off many of the football barnacles, football
could be saved. And so could basketball, for that matter. But the
wey it is going at the present/ime causes people to wonder whether
the men who make money out of football will permit it to be saved.

football and basketball will of necessity come from a group of men
who are outstanding inthe sport from the angle of technical skill.
laboratory work }o,show that they are experts. These
men, by and large, ar etes who awe receiving either their
board, room tuition, béoks, and so forth, or a large part of it, and
some are men who positively leave school with a !
then they entered with. How in the world canrthese cese\ t
of character challenge a boy to enroll in the university exe
game and only method they know ~ that is the pay cheok. [

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These major spectacular sports are nothing but a rachet, or a business
racket tied to the tail of the university or college. The boy is maite |
to feel that that is the most important thing in his existence, when
all of us know that it is not by amy manner of means the most important.

wecause-it—is an_incentive which should drive him on to
the durable things of life, wrt hot is the thing that 6
Glassroom and in the contact with his fellows. Jue that he is
nothing more than a paid profes

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wed play ve no quarrel with you when

ao much of a spirit of a game where mental, physical, and emotional SN
expressions have a wholesome outlet that youth will demand, and have,

im one way or another." Again I say, let's have it in the right way,

and not in the way it is being omducted in the "big time”. Again I

want to say that I do not «n> ta kill football, »ut I want to point

to the boy who is paaying it the danger of following wandering fires

lest in the quagmire.

Brownie, I have never worried much about ostracism. I find that I

make a few friends end lose a few, but when I characterize a group

of coaches as "beagle hounds out sniffing the bushes for athletes to

be given saleries for doing no work", I state correctly what I know

and what you know, Of course, some big time schools have someone

else to do their beagle-hounding for them, and they sit back as re-
spectable individuals while the dirty work is done by the less important
beagle hounds. Had I not talked to so many professors who tell me the
pressure they feel from the advance agent for so many of these flunking
athletes, then I might say that some of them might resent it. But I
know this game from all the intricacies as you do. And these professors
do not resent this snap course idea because they know how many of the
wise boys hunt for them. ae

   
 
 
   

 

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