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jrhe signing of all 4F's and older men too old for the draft.

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Professional/football teams did it last summer

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Professional baseball and professional football are businesses calculated
to make money and to entertain their patrons for the price of admission. “The
business of the college is to educate the youngster, not to prostitute him
professionally, College athletics are steel to be a sport and not a
professional business. The old college ideal of former days is gone. One
football coach of our section said only the other day, hie ea: had it won
a couple ef more games, would have gotten a Bowl, bid that would have paid us & =o

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handeomeipcC Eaok at the example of Siwash (real name not used). Siwash was
nearly all a 4F outfit. They accepted a Bowl bid and got the money. “we are
on the lookout »zeefor thee 4P boys for next year, and also the 17 year old
boys who have one year of competition before being called for the draft." somgnrele,

The coach quoted was under the impression that he was speaking te one of
his workers, but he got his geography mixed. He was speaking to a Kansas Mane

Certainly I want it weaeretose that I am strongly in favor of 4F boys
being permitted to participate in athletics, But when they are made the medium
of an all-out effort to go professionally big time, then there should be pause
for sober reflection.

So be prepared for more flag waving, more high sounding patriotic phrases
emulating top physical conditioning of our athletic teams for the coming year
by these same pseudo-developers of physical conditioning.

Our number one business in America at the present time is to win the war
with everything we have got in the shortest pos sth time, Back the attack by _
an all-out effort on the home front. The 4F athlete in war time should not be

glorified nor should he be villified athletically. And if something is not done