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By a glance over the roster of the professional football
players! Alma Maters it is an easy matter to see where the most proselyt-
ing is done. Certain colleges and universities dominate that field with
their athletes. The professional promoter offers $150.00 to $300.00 per
game for a very short, hazardous season. "Better to take a chance of
serious injury", says the athletic nomad and collect so called easy
money than to work as an apprentice where there are no cheer leaders
and oe eyed gallery of hero worshippers to cheer one on to glory.

But professional football is here to stay. However, the
professional personnel should not be recruited from the college ranks
of necessity.

The civil war formed the foundation for professional base-
ball. The world war formed the foundation for professional football and
revivified professional baseball. The millions of men returning from
war taught their youngsters to play the game that they themselves played

in recreation camps. Much money and leisure time were spent providing

an opportunity for the play life of young men.

 

More time and money have been spent on the boys! problem
than have been spent upon the girls! program. Someone has said that

there are more girls smoking cigarettes in American today than boys.

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