The American Association of University and College
Presidents would of course be the ones to initiate this move. It
is the only source from whom this power could come to such commissioner. :

I told you when you asked me for this that I was not desir-
ous of trying to initiate this move at all but I set out to the public
a plan whereby confidense could again be restored in intercollegiate
athletics, People now have no more confidence in the integrity of
intereollegiate athletics than they had in professional baseball after
the Black Sox scandal. And if athletics are to be put on 4 high plane,
as they should be, at woul of meneatty tke Just euch aetion as this.

After the war we will have our stadium overflowing with
nein, Our colleges will be bulging with students returning from
the war. And in my opinion this is the only way that we can clean up
the uasty mess that we have gotten into, Then, and then only, can
coaches show their true coaching skill. As it has been, it is merely
the assembler of athletic talent that determines the winner.

Remenber, Bus, that the day of the coach who works three
hours a day for three months is out. The American college president
will swash this just as sure as you live. He is tired of the fellow
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They will never come back.

Some schools are in the athletic business, some alwmi are
in the athletic business, and some gamblers have been getting into
the college athletic business. Why not clean it all up and start anew?
There will be enough bugs get into the new scheme of things after it

has rum a generation.

Now, Bus, I believe if you will read this article very
carefully, practically everything in a skeletal form is there for the
setting up of this program. But if there is anything in this paper
or in my letter that is not olear, I would be glad te have you interrogate
me on these different points and I will see if I can not clear them up
for you before you write your article. You will understand this is fer

aheuld eentinue fer some tine. But it will cost money, but 4% will save
thousands and thousands more than it costs.

These small schools like Kensas, Kensas State and Iowa State
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