participation eeases. — |

‘Further, that they permit no two-year resident university to
schedule gares with the one-year resident ecliege. the emall school,
desiring te project iteelf unduly ami unpropertionately into the athe
letic e petlight-big time football, is one of the major contributory
causes of this athletic hyetertis.

| The real purpose of a ments going to college is to got en educee
tion. The playing of games is a leudeble addition to the study currie-
eulum, ani indeed fe e necessery bit of laboratory work for the youth
whe wants to become an athletic coach.

| But two years of competition is enough. This two-year period |
should give the athlete: tine to earn an sthletic letter, whieh fe,
after all, the objective of the man who goes out for « Varaity Bporte
AAitionsl letters near 1ibtie. In the major colleges it might be
Well to continue freshman teams, as at present without intercollegiate
competition, end to meintain second-year mem as a junior Versity, which |
could schedule a limited number of games with similer teams from other ‘
major universities or with freshmen teams of minor universities that {
were opereting under the three-year rule. Of course, many details of ;
this propese’ plen would have to be worked out by a special faculty |
representative group assisted by ethletic directors. Undeniably the &
present freshman rule, which was ineugureted at standard universities,
some thirty years ago, was the greatest single force in driving the
ringer or the itinerant athletic tramp from the athletic fields.

Therefere, it is st least thinkeble thet the American Association

of University ani College fresidents could ineugurate another workable
plen to meet these new end perilous comiitions which ere making dange-
rous inroads inte the very life of the sport iteelf, this woup of men
is the suprene Court of Goliege life. Their fine job of thirty years |

ago paid huge dividends.

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