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going all out for a winner, these college teams are apt to throw all caution
aside and subsidizing and proselyting, which has always been great in America,
will be increased many fold.

Prior to this waf, so-called respectable colleges subsidized and prosele
yted their athletes iz ona large scale. Football was big business and it
will be bigger business after this war. Basketball was just coming into its.
owne Now basketball will be an ultraemajor sport, and along with its cousin,
football, will go big time in no ummistakable fashion.

Meny forms of wcbedtaation and proselyting were practiced. Some
universities used the ‘intel of obtaining about forty wealthy men to eubsidise
four scholarships a year. Each annual scholarship was twelve hundred dollars,
and since each wealthy man subsidized four, this amounted to $4,800 for each
of the forty men. That gave a school under this mm plan 160 picked football
players, besides the normal flow that came ing Other schools used the
legislative scholarship plan where the representatives and the senators gave
the boy a legislative scholarship which provided his tuition and books. Another
prominent gehoet had a plan of a “buck a month club", a dollar a mouth or $12
a year. Thousands of these memberships were sold and it was under the guise
of meeting competition from state institutions - this being an endowed college
that used this plan. | | ,

others use a straight widiiaivia tine, asking the wealthy alumi to give
#500, and the smallest gift aiteed for was $5. From $30,000 to $50,000 was
vetoed.

Just prior to World War Two football players were paid from $90 to $125
per month. Of course, they were not paid openly - it was on a clandestine
basis. The athletic directa’s kmew nothing about it, the athletic managers
‘new nothing about it, the football or basketball coaches knew nothing about

ite In fact, no ons knew anything about it, except that the boy just happened

to appear on the campuse He wore good clothes, he did not work, and he was