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fessionalism, and the spirit of the colleges will be identical with that
of the New York Yankees or the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the players are apt
to be booed for mistakes as are the professionals. The cheers and the
hero worship will go only to those super-athletes, as to Joe Dilfaggio who
outdoes everybody else. But upon this question we should ponder before
deciding to make such a ste@pe |

It would be far healthier for our athletics if we could come
out in the open and say to the public that definitely we are subsidizing
these athletes. The richer schools or the schools with wealthier alumni
would ratae the ante and the same situation that obtains now would obtain
in the future.

Unless inflexible laws for college conferences, with sharp,
biting teeth in them, are enacted, the laws would be broken in this case
the same as they have been in the present and the paste Subsidization
could be adequately enforced by the colleges employing a super-czar, or
a high commissioner of athletics for the United States, to serve all
conferences, with vested authority in him the same as is granted Judge
Landis in professional baseball. This high commissioner would have
absolute authority to discharge any coach, to declare ineligible any
player, or to prescribe certain rules of conduct for any athletic board,
or even go so far as to demand the removal of certain members of any
college athletic board. Each conference would agree on the price to pay
their athletes. Only member ieee subscribing to such a sie would be
eligible to belong to such a conference. And only conferences subscrib=
ing to this arrangement would permit their schools to schedule games
with schools belonginge No games could be scheduled with any non-members

in the United States. Of course, non-members could play with non-members.