THE COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION TAKES PART IN THE NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM

 

The survey taken by the Central Office was made to seek out "the special
measures effected or planned by the college athletic associations throughout the
country as a means of cooperating with the Government in the present national emergen-
cy", With that in mind, information was sought on five specific points. To avoid
regimentation of thought, no actual questionnaire was presented and athletic directors
used their own initiative in making up their reports.

The five main points brought out were: (1) The effect of the national emer-~
gency on athletic programs for the coming year, and whether it has resulted in en-
largement or curtailment; (2) The question of price reductions in admissions to games
for men in wmiform; (3) The inclusion of teams from nearby training camps or bases on
athletic schedules; (4) The use of college athletic facilities by enlisted men or by
civilians shortly to be called into service; and (5) A brief listing of various new
projects under consideration or already undertaken. In the following pages, these

will be individually discussed,
I, THE EFFECT OF THE EMERGENCY ON ATHLETIC PROGRAMS

What is undoubtedly the most striking revelation of the entire survey can be
made at the outset of the report. Throughout the United States, less than one per
cent of the college athletic associations have to date found it necessary to curtail
their plans for the coming year! What is more, 44 per cent of them have found it ad-
visable to expand their programs, virtually all of them as a direct result of the
emergency. Here are the figures:

Program will Program will Program will
be Larger Remain the Same be Curtailed No Report

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AA% 51.6% 6% 3.8%