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associations, most of them with different rules and beholden “

only to themselves, he wants them all locked into one national’

and overall organization, with a czar like baseball’s Judge

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vidual unit would still have its straw boss, but there'd ‘be a
Top Guy with full crack-down powers to settle all arguments _
and make all decisions. The Dr. even states this super-gentle-..
man’s salary. It would be $50,000 a year. ned
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jgogue. It would pull the linch-pin completely out of our inter-

collegiate athletic cosmos as it is, or was, and coast-to-coast”
reorganization would have to be complete. PURE MS acid

The Muscovites have just liquidated their Communistic |
International and part of the official reasons given read, “Pro-
found differences, even contradictions, in the historical dew -
velopment of every land and in their social structures, differ-"_
ences of level and rate of social and political development.
. . .” made it impossible further to run the affair from one ~
master blue-print. That’s what they said, anyhow,’ and
whether that’s the truth, or an out, so far as the Russian lead- "|
ers go, it’s a straight description of the college athletic diffi- ~
culties. oe taaee aioe ee oe

Not only do very few of those intercollegiate groupings ~
operate the same way, but most of them seem to have differing .
and.determined convictions concerning what is right and what -
wrong in any given circumstance. The common denominator
would be very hard to find. Some would quit and others die”
if-it ever were found, wherever and whatever it is, and set ~
up as the law of the stadium Medes and the gym-floor Per- ~
sians. prt Sees SG sR
J once went into this matter as a definite piece of research _

and was forced to abandon it completely as irreducible and . .

undecipherable. What can you do when you find a. couple ~
of institutions such as Stanford and Harvard, each celebrated, *'
each clean and each socially hygienic on its coast, and yet .
both completely at variance upon what constitutes financial...
help to an athlete, and each insisting, politely but immovably,:
that it is correct? IONS

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES

The difference in what constitutes proselytizing, what _

.|constitutes an athletic scholarship, what constitutes eligibility ~

changes almost from conference to conference. ‘Finding the”

;;median between the Southeastern Conference and the Ivy”
.|League, for instance, would be like looking for the halfway.
;/mark between the French Foreign Legion and a Sunday school -;.
class. The Sunday school class is not going to enlist to fight’
‘|the Arabs and the Legion has no interest in turning sis, ‘so ~

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There’s all that, and then there are the social significances. _

Dr. Phog doesn’t suggest tampering with schedules, but, with’.
a standardized set-up, the temptation to work out a real .
national championship annually would be great. Great—and--
strongly resisted by certain teams jealous of their local repu- °°
tations and their local exclusiveness. aa
The Catholic colleges, either more brazen or more honest —

jin their building of teams, have been the victims of exclusion. ~
jon both coasts. The Pacific Coast Conference has resisted -
jall pressure to include Santa Clara and St. Mary’s, whereas ~
|the Ivy institutions on this shore don’t play Boston College:

at all, and Holy Cross only on the skip-stop pattern.. The per-~»

|fection of the proposed plan would probably expect Divés to —

deal with Lazarus on a more fraternal basis than merely ©
tossing him the crumb of a Stadium date about once in every
10 years. But who can deliver the Dives? ee
_ Tracing the parallel any further is no intention of mine. _
I’m for a league of some sort or other when the war ends, -
as long as we don’t have to surrender our identity as a nation,°
our traditions or our way of life. Somebody’s got to straddle ~
that Hun. But those who are thinking in terms of an inter-_.
national camp-meeting can well afford to skid an eye across»:
that college sports world jumble. Who’s going to give up.
what? Who’s going to say what’s right, what’s wrong? Who, —
if a jam comes, is| going to. make ‘em? Who’s going to-help--
and what with? ~* ~~ oa ee