COPY July 31, 1938-6 Deoar Mr. Teetor: - The Naismith article was mailed to you, first class, Saturday evening, and should reach you by an early delivery Monday. I have checked over your specifications, and think I have covered most of the points you suggeste Dre Naismith did not mention the introduction of the game into Australia, but did several other countriese One point occurs to me that you might wish to ue and that is that young women as well as men played the games The earliest games at Springfield were played just before the noon hour, and the noise attracted passers by from the adjoining street, including teachers in the public schoole They wanted to form:a team, and asked the young women in the Y.iM. office to organize for gamese There were not enough on the staff, so the sweethearts of some of staff helped oute Thus Mrs. Naismith was among the players on the first women's teams. She held her interest in the game until her death a year or more agoe The foregoing would fit in well after the first sen- tence of the paragraph at the bottom of page 6, starting a new paragraph with e e "The 13 simple rules « « «" | Dre Fe Ce Allen assured me today he would be pleased to present a phase of the Subsidization of Athletes, opposing what he calls the “hypocritical attitude that denies subsidization". He is, of course, opposed to the tramp athlete=-=the athletic youth who attends college, but gains nothing in education, and ends with a goodly bank accounte He does believe, however, that the young man who wants an education should not be penalized because he wants also to engage in health-giving sportse Vast sums are used as scholarships for scholastic students who engage in other intramural activities, such as glee clubs, bands, and the likee Dr. Allen has a trenchant style, and commands attention, as witness his run in with the “trans-atlantic hitchhikers" in connection with the AAU and the Olympic gamese How long should such an article be? Yours very truly, (Stemed) We Ae DILL ~ Mre Paul Teetor, The Rotarian, Chicago, Illinoise PS. Does it occur there might be something in the Pacific Northwest I mi ght investigate for The Rotarian? WAD . Coun Goa 38 PAUL TEETOR STATE 4016 ee ean a OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL HARVEY C. KENDALL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE ERTISING MANA CHICAGO, ILL. U.S.A. ADVERTISING MANAGER August Eighteenth 1 9 3 8 Dear Dr. Allen: Many thanks for submitting the brief outline of some of the points you will cover in your article on subsidizing college athletes. This information has been passed along to Major Griffith. Thanks also for the photograph and biographical information. We shall see that the photo is returned as soon as it has served our purpose, It is good to have the news of Ed Elbel. He is a grand chap, and I am glad to hear that he is doing so well at K.U. I'll write him a note con- gratulating him on receiving his Ph.D. Paul Teetor Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Ae, ahalh offer your — AA ArLaA. . Netober ll, 1958. i | 35 Bast Wacker Drive, CHLGAgo, Tllinoise Dear tire Tootar= Themk you very much for your kind note of the 4th instant, and the Fotam of photograph. Direstor of Physical duwati Vaaity taaketindl Genthe —- (ORI SeIAN .- PAUL TEETOR STATE 4016 ASSISTANT EDITOR OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF: ROTARY IN TERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE HARVEY C. KENDALL BUSINESS AND CH ICAGO, LEE. U.S.A. ADVERTISING MANAGER October Fourth ce $s. & Dear Dr. Allen: * Thank you for lending us this photo- graph of yourself for use in our "Chats on Con- tributors" page. We're looking forward to receiving some interesting comments on the debate. If any are particularly good, we may present them in our "Open Forum" column, in which case copies will be sent you. With kind regards and all good wishes, I am Dr. Forrest C. Allen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas *% inclosure With appreciation, and best wishes, I an Very sincerely yours, Directer of Physical Education, Z FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coaches . LELAND D. CASE EDITOR PAUL TEETOR _ “ASSISTANT EDITOR HARVEY C. KENDALL BUSINESS AND ADVERTISING MANAGER TheROTARIAN — .... STATE 4016 OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE CHICAGO, ILL. U.S.A. October ighteenth 1 9 3 8 Dear Dre Allens Thank you for your letter of October 14 passing along to us the comments of John Tunis on your portion of the athletics debate in the October ROTARIAN. We appreciate your thoughtfulness in telling of his reaction. I know you must have had a delightful visit with him. Mr. Tunis, who by the way is an occasional contributor to THE ROTARIAN, is, we feel, en intelligent and able critic. Kindest regards. Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas —u- {ROMO JIARIAN ... PAUL TEETOR STATE 4016 ASSISTANT EDITOR OF LCIAL MAGAZINE OF IO FAIRY: IN TERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE HARVEY C. KENDALL BUSINESS AND CH ICAGO, TLE: U.S.A. ADVERTISING MANAGER October Twenty-fourth 1 9 3 8 Dear Mr. Allen: Thank you for your letter of October 21. We are pleased to mail to you today, with our compliments, five additional copies of the October ROTARIAN. , Ce 7 Paul Teetor Mr. Forrect C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas October 27, 1938. < am sending you a copy of the Rotarian Magazine in which Major Griffith end I exchange our views on prosel= yting, pages 21 and 25. I thought you might be interested in seeing thise Very sincerely yours, Tirector of Physical Education, Ostober 27, 19386 Dre Marvin Hall, Topeln, Hansas. Dear -— Hall: i am sending you a copy of the Rotarien Magezine in witeh tajor Griftsti aI exehange our views on prosel- yting, pages 21 and 25. i thought you might be interssted in seeing thise 11 ve boon wanting to write you, but have been so busy Gmt I haven*t had & chaned, I thought you might want to read this article for oe os ee en OS Op Gee out of i Very sincerely yours, TLrector of Physical Faucation, FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach. Dean Brank T. Stockton, — Sehool of BDusinesse ° Dear Dean Stockton: I am sending you a copy of the Rotarian magazine which varries en article I wrote on the subsidization of athletes. Major GRMffith writes on the opposite Side of the matter. — in reading thise I shall be glad to have the magezine returned at your Gonveniencée Yery sincerely yours, Director of Physical Dducation, Varsity Basketball Coache November 1, 1938. Very sincerely yours, Mrector of Physical Edueation, Varsity Basketball. Coach. PAUL TEETOR STATE 4016 ee ee ae OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ei cant oie sieee HARVEY C. KENDALL ADVERTISING MANAGER CH ICAGO, ILL. November Eighth = S. -G Dear Dr. Allen: Thank you for your letter of response to Dr. McConaughy's comments on the Rhodes Scholarship requirements. We are planning to publish his letter and a portion of yours as a "reply" in the Open Forum department of the our December issue. This further discussion will, l am sure, be very interesting to readers who noted the debate. A oO Teetor Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas LELAND D. CASE | | le Q () / \ : | / 5 N TELEPHONE EDITOR STATE 4016 PAUL TEETOR ASSISTANT EDITOR OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE HARVEY C. KENDALL BUSINESS AND CH ICAGO, EEL. U.S.A. ADVERTISING MANAGER November Eleventh zr 9 $ 8 Dear Dr. Allen: We are pleased to mail to you today, with our compliments, ten additional copies of the October ROTARIAN. We are glad to know that the discussion on subsidizing athletes is prov— ing of such interest to your friends. Very cordially yours Teetor Dr. Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas November 16, 1958s Assistant Idi tor, Chicago, lllinciss Dear las Testor: There sequs to be a demand for the October issue of The Rotarian carrying the discussion on the subsidization of athletess i am wondering if it would be possible for you to send ne an additional supply. A number of my friends heve expressed a desire to read tie maguaine, and I Pin that T lave Aepoced of all xy coplese ‘I shall be deeply grateful for another supply. Very sincerely yours, Mrecto® of Physical Education, . Vatsity Dasketball Coaches en Preis aie ea emer ee Roger Babson ¢ Walter B. Pitkin 6 1938 and SIR CHARLES MORGAN-WEBB THE ROTARIAN community are a pay roll factory may destroy 1,000 in it, including water for f conserving our natural all agree to that. Thirty each day and learn why ut there isn’t a compre- on available for the pub- ies. 1en was parcelled out the lomain; 140 million acres ‘ual use for grazing. On last remaining hereditary ig-game species: big-horn sage grouse, among them. 140 million acres should se magnificent and profit- the seasons are too short all ought to be interested thousands of ducks and botulism and preventable isease comes every Six or put the population of that sxe hundreds of thousands it annually from disease the sportsmen’s bags and where are the 11 million _ Survey asks for codpera- nce, I should say a good ng up new names to call here aren’t more ducks. desirable things and wild th American Continent— and conservationists will wry loudly enough. OCTOBER 19.38 Should College Yes! =~Says Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education, University of Kansas a. college athletes? That’s what we're doing now—furtively.. There is not a college in the United States, excepting Johns Hopkins University and one or two others, that does not subsidize athletes. Take the university with the 40 thoughtful alumni, for a sample. Every year each of these “well-heeled” gentle- men endows four scholarships each of which pays $125 monthly. This has a way of bringing 160 hand-picked athletes to the campus every Fall. But the scholarships. aren't exactly gifts. The boys have to earn them—by visiting their mothers at Christmas and Easter, abso- - lutely! Beyond that there are no strings. Or turn to that State university which a year or two ago diverted $10,000 from its athletic association for ad- vertising. The sum bought football and_ basketball players . . . at $90 a month. The same salary scale holds in a certain other school, but there the selection of the athletes who shall benefit is a matter of pure science—of trial and error. Each Athletes Be Paid? 21 1 “eh as ee August the football department holds a training camp where the varsity men start conditioning themselves for the Fall schedule. To the camp come also the freshmen prospects whom the athletic director and his aides have corralled during the Summer. Double workouts are held daily, and the new lads who survive the grind are selected to attend the institution—at $90 a month, plus board, room, tuition, and all theater and baseball tickets. Freshmen who make poor showings in the gridiron drills are released—just as are the hopeless rookies in the Spring training camps of baseball’s major leagues. Which is all very convenient. The coach knows what he’s to work with before the boys matriculate—not after. Football is no longer a sport! It's a business! A sur- reptitious business, a clandestine business—but a business nevertheless! I could offer further proof. I could cite as an added instance the school whose assistant athletic director is a sort of glorified paymaster. He handles all. the monetary arrangements for the school’s athletes whether they live on or off the campus. He “cracks down” on them if they violate training rules or let their scholastic averages slip. The football coach and the athletic director, of course, know nothing about it—but you and I both know that they know. - Someone has said that our American life divides itself into three epochs: the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the “passing of the buck.” We are still in the last epoch—in the administra- @ Continuing the Debate-of-the-Month Series tion of college athletics. Everyone with 22: at least one eye half open admits that there is some proselytizing in the present picture—but no one does anything about it, anything helpful. But something needs doing because this malignant lesion, this hypo- critical parcelling out of sinecure jobs, is devitalizing many of our best athletes. Surreptitiously pay a boy more to play football in college than he can earn on the outside in honest employment and you leave a scar on him which he'll carry far beyond the campus halls. Hav- ing grown used to the feel of this so-called “easy money” during his days of eligibility, he often turns to profes- sional football when his college days are over. You have, in fact, only to study the roster of the professional foot- ball leagues of the United States and note the players’ college affiliations to get a clue as to where proselytizing is practiced. Now you can’t bet rid of this great straight-faced sub- terfuge by talking about it. That has been tried. I doubt if you can get rid of it at all. But you can dignify it—by recognition. You can bring it out into the fresh air of public intelligence, agree on principles, establish a few simple, businesslike procedures—and so achieve scrupulous honesty in the athletic department of an in- stitution dedicated to honest thinking, the college. Talking, I have just said, has been tried. Three years ago the Committee on Student Group Life drew up some Stand- ards of Athletic Eligibility. The National Association of State Universities endorsed them. Ar- ticle III of these Standards pro- vides that: The faculty committee on eligi- bility shall, in advance of compe- tition, require of each candidate for competition in any sport a detailed statement in writing of the amounts and sources of his finan- cial earnings and income received, or to be received during the college year and the previous Summer, from others than those upon whom he is naturally dependent for sup- port. In case any question arises with regard to the implication of this statement, the matter shall be referred to the executive committee of the conference for de- cision. If the above unfair discriminatory regulation does not produce mass perjury, then pass judgment upon the fol- lowing edict from the same Standards of Athletic Eligt- bility: Every candidate for an athletic team must, ster a careful explanation of all the eligibility regulations and their impli- cations of honor, by the faculty committee on athletics, de- clare orally to the committee and in writing upon his honor his eligibility or ineligibility under each separate regulation. Each member of the athletic staff, physical-education depart- . ment, athletic council, and faculty committee on athletics shall upon his honor in writing certify his own adherence to all the athletic regulations and to the best of his knowledge THE ROTARIAN the eligibility or ineligibility of every member of the team that represents the institution. There is no admission or confession here stated that the majority of athletes are receiving secret subsidies, but the very tone of this act immediately gives it the spirit of the inquisition, and then the crime results in getting caught. This scheme above mentioned was in operation a decade ago concerning Summer baseball for collegians, and it failed dismally. It is working no better today. Open, honest subsidy is the only answer. But by sub- sidizing I do not mean the hiring of athletes merely for playing ability, at a salary based on skill. We have that sort of thing now in the tramp athlete, the youth who seeks to barter his physical prowess not in exchange for an earnestly desired education, but only for an attractive - monetary consideration. I am vehemently opposed to him and his kind, as, I am certain, most college coaches are. I am irrevocably against professionalism of this sort or any other in college athletics! But if subsidizing means “to furnish aid with a sub- sidy,” or to give the athlete an even break with other students, then my answer is Yes! And why not? Today is the age of subsidizing. James Bryant Co- nant, president of Harvard, stated recently that Harvard would subsidize the best young brains of the United States at his institution. Students pre- paring for law, medicine, engineering, the ministry, and all the professions have been and are subsidized through scholarships and fellowships. Why exclude physical education and ath- letics? “Without discrimination for or against the athlete” has long been the slogan of the present purity col- legiate eligibility rules committee. There has been much talk but little action to shift that principle into gear. -Byron (“Whizzer”) White, superb football player from Colorado, is to be subsidized in England with a Rhodes Scholarship. Yet if the English prac- tice of: subsidizing Rhodes Scholars were applied to our American college athletes, all would be declared ineligi- ble by our own eligibility committees. One of the requirements of the Rhodes Scholarship is, in fact, that the applicant be outstanding in at least one sport. English education, in other words, encourages physical skill, while American education looks upon that kind of skill with suspicion. The athlete, I repeat, is already and many times dis- criminated against. Just why should the finger of sus- picion be pointed at a healthy, husky American boy be- cause he wants to play a game in which he excels? Why should he be hailed into an academic court, lectured to, and caused to sign papers and also to declare orally that he is without stain of professional guilt any more than the rotund and dapper campus luminary with a Carusoan voice who sells his music talent [Continued on page 60] Photo: International News aang TET OCTOBER, 1938 Should No! =—Says Jo Commissioner of Ai ce means b; them a few sports fans. the college football stad: is, they happen to kno cial “deal” with a “nice ism? Don’t look for it Such people like to be college athletes who reac without pay for their y Bobby Jones, greatest gc in the word’s best sense- their minds snap shut . But perhaps they do sc the rest of us on guard what about that amateur our colleges? Ought it! Whether to pay or no question mainly peculia exclusively so. The ( stemmed the fine belief too, at one time or anotl 60 Should College Athletes Be Paid? Yes!—Says Forrest C. Allen [Continued from page 22] singing at funerals and collects a tidy sum for singing in a church choir, and in ad- dition gets credit toward graduation for his singing in that choir? No credit is given the athlete for par- ticipating in daily two-hour practice drills on the football field, or for playing in a regularly scheduled contest. But if he should go down town and play in any competitive game with an outside team, even without remuneration, he would automatically become ineligible. If the athlete should referee an intramural game of any kind for the same amount of money that the singer receives for his hour’s work, the athlete immediately be- comes a professional and is ineligible to play. When playing for his school in an intercollegiate. contest, he receives no academic credit, but credit toward grad- uation is given members of the band who play between halves at the same game. If you want to teach history or chem- istry, you can carry the minimum load the school requires and take as long as you desire to complete the course. But if you want to coach athletics and seek to earn a varsity letter as a recommenda- tion, you must possess 28 hours of aca- demic credit the two preceding semesters. It is just as logical to think that we should have physical-education scholar- ships as well as any other special scholar- ships which are offered by alumni and other beneficiaries. Coaching and physi- cal education are professions, and the sooner we have a newer and a better un- derstanding of these moot points, the bet- ter off all of us will be. Who can say that from a great army of aspiring youth, tingling with the love of contests and con- quests, it is not possible to discover an- other young Naismith, a Stagg, a Gulick, or a MacKenzie? These men were all poor boys. They struggled for their edu- cation and they competed in athletics when their parents frowned upon the pro- fession they were to take up. Since those days, physical education has been digni- fied and edified, until now we have giants of intellect as well as physique in the field of physical education. Again, is it not possible for the fine young athlete to use his skills just as does the student of art or music? It has been said that the rhythm and the poise and the timing of a superb athlete are art and poetry 1n action. . But life is full of paradoxes. With one hand we give money to aid the physically crippled, and with the other we give boodle money to cripple mentally the physically strong. It is easy to collect $1,000 for a “slush fund” for certain sub- rosa purposes, but impossible to collect $100 for some legitimate activity. 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If a G-man should inves- tigate any other honorable, long-estab- lished conference on obeying the present rules of the conference as they are now printed, his ndings would cause much panic. The athletic situation is a mess. Conferences are printing one rule, but actually obeying another. This is com- parable to the present international sit- uation, when the world powers say we must be prepared, we must protect our- selves against the outlaws. Colleges should take a page from the State of New York in its educational policy regarding high schools. All activi- ties of the high schools, including all forms of competitive athletics, are under the direct control of the high-school ad- ministration. There is no such thing as an athletic association. If colleges would abolish their athletic associations, with their alumni and student boards, and if the universities would handle athletic funds the same as all other State-appro- priated funds, then such bugbears as high-priced coaches’ salaries and bits of skullduggery such as diverting $10,000 or more from advertising channels into a “slush fund,” then much of the grief of our present athletic catastrophe would be done away with. James Rowland Angell, when presi- dent of Yale University, once made the case for competitive sport groups when he said: We must believe in all sincerity, as I am sure many of us do not, that physical education, in- cluding competitive sports, is an essential part of the obligation of the college and in no sense a mere excrescence to be confided to the casual outsider or to the transient apprentice. We must recognize that it stands in the closest pos- sible relation to moral education, which we often Pronounce as one of the prime duties of the college, if not, indeed, the very first. We must believe unreservedly in sports for the whole college community, and competitive group sports as far as possible. If, then, physical education in the largest sense is an intrinsic part of the work of the college, why should there longer be hesitation in recognizing that fact, and accept- ing the full responsibilities: which go with it? Why should there be, indeed? The core of the whole question is, what is bet- ter for youth? To answer, we must make a choice. Shall we continue a system that puts a premium on hypocrisy and dishonesty, that encourages selfishness and parisitism, that warps youth’s view of life far out of line with the actual? Or shall we teach our young men to be realistic, to value their potential contribu- tions as highly as the classics or chem- istry student values his—and therefore to expect and get equal recognition? The choice, to me, seems obvious. OCTOBER, 1938 Planting Pea Our Back Yai [Continued from page 39] sovereignty. Some in the a advance one or another relig as a panacea for all interr flicts. In other words, each his own particular bias in re whole world scene and, if h all fluid, his strong opinior to be modified. What is actually happenir public in general is gaining : mation as to the problems tional relations. It is a) against strongly emotional pi is giving intelligent thougt lution of world problems service and understanding words, a world public opir developed, an informed pv which is of utmost signific: is to be preserved. Wher world around have come t each other’s problems and I a will for peace, then it wil to sweep them emotionally These Institutes are bu fires against a world conflag: are planting peace in our where the common people thus preparing the minds of the day when they must le calmly and tolerantly in obstreperous neighbors. Last season the Rotary C nambool, Australia, held a versity extension lectures on subjects. Recently the Inter: ice Committee of Rotary Dis 6 organized a series of me laboration with the Associat American Understanding, some 35 public meetings on Anglo-American relationshi tary Club of Lima, Peru, an Rotary Clubs in Canada ar sponsor Institutes of Interna -standing during the current Inquiries about Institutes ha’ Clubs in New. Zealand, ¢ Europe, and South Americ: munity Institute of Internal standing which local Rota initiating is, therefore, becc and far-flung movement. It the highways and byways peoples of the world live < bring them to understand and thus, when their feet a the broad road of goodwi the more reasonably be expe toward the goal of peace an ized their deep yearnings fc