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soon for post war athletic rules - to rigidly enforce decadent and dead
regulations in our college conferences after the war - then the college
presidents had better tie their hats on because the gale brewing will

| develop a holocaust excelling anything yet seen.

But the Saka that suffer most are the ones which obserrs the conference
rules. These big time teams have discarded all of the traditional collegiate
restrictions, There is no one at present in the collegiate set up to enforce
the old rules. Maybe they are outmoded. The big timers are ignoring these
rules the same as Hitler ignored the Versailles treaty and invaded the Ruhr.
No nation acted. And no school or pernans — the big in teams
and the big time coaches at present. @

The surest way to kill intercollegiate athletics for the future is to
continue in the deptorable mnner that they are now being conducted. All
other phases of educational and business sieoidines are definitely planning
@ post-war program. Certainly the old form of hiving @ conference commissioner
who pinches off the fuse before the flame gets to che powder keg will not be
the answer. There will be such an upsurge of athletics by the tee posueiie
from the world's war fronts to college halls that athletic contagion will |
spread like a prairie fire. Attendances will leap to a new high, and unless
new rules are made and enforced -- rules that have teeth in them to keep these
-proselytors in bounds as Judge Landis has kept ihe Laasball Pevelettvante in
bounds == then we are in for double, double trouble. Judge Landis ousted
William D, Sox; the president of the Philadelphia National League club. aoe
was banished from po Wenebail for betting on games, It will take a
se cbdtuni anise for college athletics with as much fearlessness in dealing with

college coaches and administrators as is now possessed by Judge Landis in

handling professional baseball.