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but the newspapers have kept it quiet, or fairly quiets

Therefore, I say that the college presidents are now contributing to this
delinquency by failing to do anything about the matter of setting up proper
machinery to guard against the thing that is sure to happen. Some of these
boys that live across the track and desire a college education will play for

pay and will be as susceptible to the gamblers’ crooked dealing as were the

White Sox before they became Black Sox. Then the college presidents will
stand aghast. They never dreamed that such a thing could happen, and then _
of course r may hire a commissioner te protect the good old educational

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“A nation that lacketh vision perisheth. And I say here and now that
these college administrators and athletic directors, faculty representatives, .
managers and coaches, are bling ~ knowingly blind ~ wanting to be bling, be-
cause they are afraid to face the facts and do something about a until an
explosion eccurs that will rock the whole college world. You know this is 2

true, don't you, Sam? Nobody wants to stick his neck out. The fellows who

are in are living in a fool's paradise, and saying, we are doing a swell job
in building manhood, morale, and so forth. They are not following the rules) °° -
of their own conference and they know it, but they are doing as well as the

_ other fellows in following the rules; therefore, they are satisfied.

‘That is exactly what took place when the Allied Nations allowed Hitler |
to invade the Ruhr. Everybody was affraid to move and it kept getting worse
and everybody knew what was coming but they kept putting it off. The only
commissioner that we have had"that—was-amy—geo0d is dead, and that was Warre
G. Atherton of the Pacific Coast. The other commissioners are a bunch of
stooges, following the faculty representatives in their administration of
hypocritical procedure of laws that they know they are not following.

 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 

     

  

Yes, the competition will be much tougher. The men will be older, they |
will be rougher, tougher in every respect. They will be tired of discipline,
just like they were after the first World War. I came here ip September, 1919
just after the first World War conflict was over. The men were much more ma-
ture and they knew what they wanted, and they did not brook much interference.
They were a fine bunch of fellows to deal with. But they had their own ideas
and you had to temper yours along with theirs. This second World War bunch
of boys will be even finer, if possible, than the first World War group weree
The boys will all be G. I. Joes, they will all want the right to a jobe You
may think that will relieve the competition among the so-called big-time
coaches, but it won't. They will be after those returning stars, and the
G. I. Bill of Rights may will give the boys financial assurance, but —_
will still go out for the extra doughe

A Judge landis over collegiate sports is the only thing that will same
the deceney of collegiate athletics, and when I saya Landis I mean a Landis.
He should be some great judge, some man with legal experience, a national
figure. If the college administraters were halfway intelligent they would
have it in their by-laws that the President of the United States should
nominate this man. Now I am not a Roosevelt follower. I said the office of
the President of the United States shovld nominate the man. That would give
it standing and character. Of c@urse some of the boys might think that I
would want Rogsevelt to nominate him, but if Dewey is elected he would suit