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 Big=Six
faculty representatives and athletic directors emphasized their willing-
ness to cooperate in this venturee 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 gemes seems not only discriminatory but paradoxical. In
football 33 m@n 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
resistancee :

Flu rums rampant all through the basketball season, weakening
the players' heart action and subjecting them to strain in addition to the
vigorous game of basketball; therefore, it is necessary that the coach
substitute frequently to conserve the health and strength of the boyse
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 discriminatory 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 Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas ended
in a triple tie, the best offensive and defensive record of the team will
be taken into account and no actual play-off will be necessary.e

By this rule they will force the coach te 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 gamee
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
marthe players who can make the best recorde This of course 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 substitute,
who might deserve to get into the game but who might allow the opponents
a percentage advantagee

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