accepted today.

The students at the University of Chicago recently asked the

authorities to permit them to adopt the Chicago Bears, professional foot-
-ball team, as their team and to mke arrangements with the professional
management so that they might be admitted to the Bears home games on an
athletic activity fee basise The Chicago students wanted to cheer for a
winner e

Last week the University Daily Kansan sports editor, Clint
Kanaga, came out for subsidization of Kansas athletics, especially foot-
balle

The petition of the New York University students offered three
policies: (1) The abolishment of football as an intercollegiate sport;
(2) The arranging of a schedule to fit the ability of the players; and
(3) Open subsidization. The first two propositions were considered
untenable by the students as the students did not want football abolished,
and the University authorities admitted their inability to arrange a suite
able schedule to fit the ability of the players. Thus, they concluded
subsidization was the-only alternativee

It seems that the student bodies of schools with losing teams
are in favor of subsidization, feeling that most of the successful big
time teams are adequately subsidizede It is an open secret.

When certain Pacific Coast athbetes were declared ineligible
by Commissioner Atherton these same students entered another university +or
in the Pacific Coast Conference.

I certainly have no objection to a boy receiving a subsidy
for playing, because that thing is happening in a great many of our
American universities at the present time, but on a sub=-rosa basise But

when colleges resort to subsidization they have moved to outright pro-