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record, sAaariinede he would be on his own college campus — same as @2
other faculty members, aensuppesse=se—ds. At the same time, these coaches
in making after-dinner speeches, are indulging in frantic flag waving while
posing as developers of young men, aiding the war effort through physical
conditioning programs of athletic games.
Please do not misunderstand me. All of the college coaches in America
are not doing this thing, but the so-called big time coaches are and they
are aided and abetted by the college which they represent because the athletic
ecveretas body of that institution eS oot the expenses of the coach in his
jaeuaias over the country, State boundaries have no restraint for him.
Any likely athlete anywhere in the United States is fair game for his project
. toward more efficient athletic material in winning his gamese
There is more respect for rules a for conduct in our professional sport
of organized baseball than that which obtains in our college athletic competition
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of today. The reason is very obvious. Judge, hemei-eS enforces the professional -s
code to the letter and spirit, while the college authorities -temporize and are E
now permitting the devil to take the hindermost. |
Take the college athletic situation of today. The president is always
the acting head or ex officio head of the athletic committee. He or the school
faculty appoint a faculty representative who is responsible for the so-called
ideals and laws of the conference under which the school operates. These
faculty representatives satearleyant as td legislative, executive and the
judicial bodies of the conference of which the school is a member. An athletic
board is formed by the college, in which are student representatives - always
in the uinori ty because the conference rules state that only institutions
having fuoulty waitnet of athletics shall - members of the association, And

further, the faculty representatives shall be persons of professional rank who

do not receive pay primarily for services rendered ‘in connection with athletics