can be very easily taken care of? In making your schedule,
you don’t have to play the teams that you don’t think are
as ethical as you are. I have noticed that the highly built-up
teams have more and more difficulty getting good schedules
and that they have to go to this part of the country and to
that, and that they have no regular rivalries. I believe the
traditional rivalry means as much for the ethics of football
= does anything else. By their schedules, ye shall know
em!

In the second place, good football can be encouraged if you
don’t have illusions of grandeur. Perhaps you will never go
to the Rose Bowl, but sooner or later there are going to be
as many bowls in the United States as there are in Macy’s
basement! And in the meantime, you can live a normal
athletic life.

Again, I hope that none of you—and I am sure that none
of you do today—urge great football players to come to col-
lege who aren’t college material, who are not the type that
can stand up in a first-class college, because that great fresh-
man team that is taken out of the trenches the second semes-
ter never does any college athletic department any good.

In the fourth place, I hope that you and the college facul-
ties are going to see to it that your institutions are repre-
sented upon the gridiron and on the track and on the
diamond by gentlemen and by students.

Finally, I think that the whole question of athletic ethics
is settled when the athletic department is an organic and an
inherent part of the college, just as the department of chem-
istry or biology or German, let us say, is.

Now, that is all I have to say by way of the arraignment
of college football, which you all expect from a college presi-
dent at this time of year. So I have done my duty up to the
present moment.

What I came to you to talk about this morning is a far
more serious matter, is a far more challenging matter, than
this specific matter of rules for football or any other form of
athletics. That is the development of a generation of young
men in the United States who have the red blood, who have
the stamina, who have the loyalty, to protect the American
way of life at a moment when it needs to have it protected
so greatly. There is no more effective group in the United
States to do it today than you who have upon your shoulders
this great athletic and this great moral and spiritual re-
sponsibility.

I don’t think, men, we realize quite the position we are in
today. We have worked out all of these fine football sched-

‘ules for next fall. We have not one reason to be perfectly

sure today that any of those games will be played because
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