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hands, but in the past ~ iain the pity - it has failed, either through
insipidity or cowardice, to useé"

Certainly from as stalwart an enthusiast for football as is
Cy Sherman this is unmistalably an open confession that he and all other
insiders know the mockery that is now being practiced under the guise
of character building in a major sport = especially when big time prosel~
ytors and subsidizers worke

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

Another observation is worth while; namely, the future crop
of coaches in both football and basketball who will of necessity come
from a group of men who are outstanding in the sport from the angle of
technical skill. This is their college laboratory work to show that they
are expertse These men, by wit large, are some of the athletes who are
receiving either their board, room, tuition, books, and so forth, or 4
large part of that, and some are men who positively leave school with a
larger bank account than they entered with. How in the world can many
of these future questionable builders of character challenge a boy to
enroll in the university except by the same and only method they know -
that is the pay checke

The undergraduate newspaper council of New York University, an
organization composed of editors and sports editors of the four university
papers, recently called on the school authorities to subsidize the New
York University football team. The request orfutea on the eid pages of

the four newspapers expressed the view that subsidization is generally