January 6, 1942.

 

Chancellor Deane W. Malott,
University of Kansas.

Dear Chancellor Malott:

- Replying to your query concerning Mr. George L. Rider's letter
to you, I beg to state that it is high time that the N.C.AA. is
taking some steps to = their rules respected.

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conferences comprising the schools under the N.C.A.A. elect a ozar-
commissioner, or a super-comsissioner, that this czar~commissioner
have full authority to investigate any complaints or acts of il-
legality, and to prescribe the penalty without resorting to a board.
In other words, give him carte blanche authority as is given Judge

Landis, to mete out penalties and decisions, and that his word is |
final.

T would further add that such commissioners as Commissioner
Atherton of the Pacific Coast be installed as commissioners in other |
conferences. Comissioner Atherton is the only commissioner who is 7-
doing the job of a comaissioner. The other fellows are merely figure-
heads or clerks who select officials for conference games, but who do
not have disciplinary authority. There are soue commissioners who are
hired to — =o ee aterm it ee
conference scandal. e:

Unfortunately the athletic conferences are much in the sane tix as.
other organizations of the present day. They do not regard printed
rules as anything other than to break. ‘So many coaches and athletic
directors have got stuff on the other fellows that no ome will charge
anyone else with a misdemeanor for fear that someone will squeal on
him and break his little glass house. In my opinion, intereollegiete .
athletics are in the worst fix that they have ever beon in. But I
believe that this war is going to deflate them all so badly that there
will not be much denger during war tine. :

My suggestion would be that the American Association of University
Presidents and other administrators look inte the future now as is the
National administration when they are planning ahead to take up the
slack that will come when the war is over, If a group of educators
could pian to get hold of the start of the new athletic era with a
set of rules with teeth in them, then that would lessen the abuses
end keep athletics in bound.