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able to o home to visit his mother a couple of times a year. Numbskulls or
boneheads were not in the quest of these subsidies. The outstanding boys in
the schools were selected. Their grades and their 1.Q.'s were carefully tested
because viet so “a money was involved in lining a prize athlete, certainly
the spenders wanted to insure the athletic longevity of such a boy and did not
want him to fall under the eligibility axe.

Please do not misimderstand me. These were not all the outlaw colleges.
These schools that perfected such a plen were members of conferences as respect~
able ag the Big Six or the Big Ten or other outstanding colleges in the Ivy League
end on the Pacific Coast. One thing was certain. Wherever this happened there
always was a large football stadium, and where these plans flourished most was
always in a city of from eighty to one hundred thousand, up to several million.
Big time athletics cannot flougish in a tom of fifteen thousand _ less. It
takes the crowd to get the money, and it takes the money to get the boye Some
athletic associations by clever manipulation of the books, charged ten to
‘quanty thowsnd dollars off to advertising and thm this menay was diverted to
the necessary channels.

Faculty representatives of respectable schools meet and make rules <imt and
apparently not much attention is paid to them. I would like to read the rules and
regulations governing athletics and all participation of the Missourd Valley
Intercollegiate Athletic Association, otherwise known as the Big Six. These rules
were written in 1937, and go far as is known, have not been altered. May I read
Rule 8, as follows: Amateur Rule.lelo student shall participate in any intere
collegiate contest who has ever used, or is using his knowledge of athletics or
his athletic skill for gain, or who has taken part in any athletic contest in
which a money prize was offered. 2. A man who has participated in a wrestling
or boxing contest. in which professionals partici pated on the game program shall
be ineligible.

Rule 9¢ Subsidication. 1. No student shall participate in any intercollegiate