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4 high eehool or college teacher desires security and good
will tho sane ae does the manual laborers A tencher of young men desires
seourity, an athletic couch desires security, but there can be no eeourity
under the present plan with subsidised football and basketball because
the followere of subsidised athleties demand a sureefire winner every tines
Sowealled athletic boosters pay their oubeidised money into a secret fund
_ to ineure thise Every conch in the same conference cannot win the chanpe
fonship for hie team, Winning « ebamplenehip is very uncertains And when
athletic booster demands a change in the coaching personnels

Five years is considered a long-term contract in football or
“bashetheld eosehings But five years ie 0 short while in « lifetine of
Goachinge The mortality table shows that three years 4e the average
tenure of a coach before changing pooitionss The present hypereritical
subsldising of college athletes worke against the seourity of a coach's
longer tenures —

Gy Sherman, eporte writer and newspaper man at Linooln,
ligbragin, in hie sports colum, “sraes Tacks", sayss "The founders of
football and all college sports, for that untter, gave thought only te
the idea that athleties should be conducted strictly on a baeie of pure
euntowrien, but corrupting influences unquestionably have been permitted to
intrude their sliny presence, thus to make « mockery of the amateur pretenses
e*¢eeo low then cam 4 tangible plan be worked out to save the gridiron
game from the fate which certain individuals have foreseen? The problem
4@ one whieh thie oolum passes to the heads of the National Collegiate
Athletic Aesooiation, the body which has the means and methods in ite