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When President Franklin De Roosevelt announced the National Defense
Program, college men and organizations all over 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 venture. During the christmas
meeting in New York the National Collegiate Athletic Association 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
games seems not only discriminatory but paradoxical. In football 33 men is the
limit; in basketball 10 mene Three times as many men that comprise a football
team are taken on a trip while but two times as many basketball men are permitted
to go on tripse

In the Mayo Clinic's research at Rochester, it has been discovered that
the peak of fatality after operations occurred during the months of January and —
February, owing to the fact that the sun's rays are the shortest at that time and
the vitality of the individual the lowest. Flu and the common cold have taken a
great toll and have weakened the individual beyond resistances

Flu runs rampant all through the basketball season, weakening the players'
heart action and subjecting than to strain in addition to the vigorous game of basket]
balls; therefore, it is necessary that the coach substitute frequently to conserve
the health and strength of the boys. With this limit on the number of players there
are not enough men on the squad to do the job satisfactorily. Not only is it dis»
criminatory but it is paradoxical when our athletic leaders say to the Nation that —
they desire to increase the number of participants, when by counteraction they
decrease the number of participants,

The BigeSix faculty representatives and athletic directors further went
on record by saying that in case of a tied championship, the like of which happened
last year when Oklahom, Missouri and Kansas ended in a triple tie, the best offensive
and defensive record of the team will be taken into accoumt and no actual play-off
will be necessarye ,

By this rule they will foree the doach 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 get his reward for his many hours of
patient practice by getting into the games But. 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 ean make the best records
This of coarse 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
might deserve to get into the game but who might allow the opponents a percentage
advanta ces

is faculty representative
informed him that but ten men could be suited up at home and therefore eligible to
play in the home game, 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 discourage the players who have come out for practice in the hope that they

Coach George Edwards of Missouri states that h

  

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