personal prestige in games won and lost, while his athletic manager considers
himself successful because of the financial gain his school receives from
guarantees, The doormat football coach is not permitted by his athletic
board to go out and get material the same as is the big-time coach, Yet he
is forced to meet teams of the proselyting coach wider unfair competition
because his athletic manager schedules games for lucrative guaranteese

| Whieh is the greater ovil - the athletic board of control
trying to observe a letter printed rule on account of academic cowardice,
or boldly facing the situation and either refusing to schedule games with
these unorthodox universities and colleges, or suffering financially?

| : This active proselyting is so aggressive that it extends

to the smaller commumities far removed from the scene of the proselytor.s
Only last week the athletic representatives of Northwestern University and
the Universities of Kentucky and Colorado contacted two of our Lawrence
High Sehool basketball boys who also doubled in football. They were offered
their board, room, tuition and books, averaging $90.00 per month. It happens
that these three universities « Northwestern, Kentucky and Colorado - ane
Kansas graduates coaching at these respective institutions. When our own
lawrence High School athletic stars are contacted by the large out of state
institutions, it is high time for our athletic oerd of sentwel ts acknewlotes
this danger by action, They should either recognize the power of these
attractions by meeting these offers in some open way orabandon intercollegiate
athletics in favor of intramurals. —

Doubtless all the tournament stars were contacted because boys
from Topeka and Kansas City who played in this tournament in Lawrence also
received flattering offers. And yet we have-nots do nothing about ite’ anal
will we wake up and take our heads out of the sand?