Jane & 1941

When President Franklin De Reosevelt amnoweed the National Defense
Program, college men and organizations all ever the country voiced their desire
to help in the preparedness of the Nation by a larger physical education programe
After the football season the BigeSix faculty representatives and athletic directors
emphasized their willingness to cooperate in this ventures During the christmas
meeting in New York the Mational Collogiate Athletic Assceiation reemphasized ite.

The action of the faculty representatives and athletic directors of the
Big-Six Conference in cutting the basketball squads to ten men for travel and home
= seems not only discriminatory but paradoxical. In football 55 men is the
| ts in tasketball 10 mene ‘Three times as many men that comprise a football
team are taken on & trip while but two times as many masketball men are permitted
to go om tripse

in the Mayo Clinic's research at Rochester, it has been discovered that
the peak of fatality after operations eccurred during the months of January and
February, owing to the fact that the eun's mys are the shortest at that time and
the vitality of the individual the lowest. Flu and the commen cold have taken a
great toll and have wemkened the individual beyond resistances

Plu runs rampant ai] through the basketball season, weakening the players?
heart action and subjecting thas to strain in addition to the vigorous game of baskete
- ‘ball; therefore, it is necessary that the coach substitute frequently to conserve
the health and strength of the boys. ‘ith this limit on the nuaber of players there
are not cnough mon on the squad to de the job satisfactorilye Not only is it dise
oriminatcry but it is paradoxieal when our athletic leaders say to the lation that
they desire to increase the number of participants, when by counteraction they
decrease the mmber of participants.

The bigeSix faculty representatives and athletic direstors further went
on record by saying that in case of a tied championship, the like of which happened
last year when Oklahom, Missouri and Yansas ended in a triple tie, the best offensive
and defensive record of the team will be taken into account and no actual playeoff
will be nesessarye

By this rule they will foree the deach to play already fatigued players for
the sake of percentage, when the game is already actually won or loste Under the
old plan, a fresh substitute on the bench could got his reward for his many hours of
patient practice by getting into the gamee Sut under the present plan of comparing
‘the best offensive and defensive record of the teams, then there is nothing for the
coach to do but to continue in the game the players who can make the best records
' This of carrse applies only when there is a tied championship, but from the time that
the season starts until it finishes, the coach will be laboring under the feeling
that he has an opportunity to win and therefore he will not play his substitutes who
mignt deserve to got into the game but who might allow the opponents & percentage
advanta. ESe

Coach George Edwards of Missouri states that his faculty representative
informed him that but ten men could be suited up at home and therefore eligible to
play in the home gam@e ‘The only hope that many players had was to get into a home
game that was already won or lost, and if this rule is put into effect than it will
naturally diseourage the players who have come out for practice in the hope that they