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Should We Subsidize College athletes? | Yes!
By Forrest C. Allen

Director of Physicsl Sducation, Varsity Basketball
Coach, University of Kansas

Subsidize college athletes? That's whit we're| doing

 

now--furtively. There is not a college in the|United |
States, excepting JohnsHozkcins University and ome or two
ethers, that does not subsidize ethletes,

fake the university with the 40 thoughtful alumni,

 

for a Sample, Every year each of thes¢ “well-—heeled*
entlenen endows four scholarships sack of whi¢h pays

-125 monthly, This has a me of bringing 160 hand-picked
bthletes to the sini onary Feil. But the scholarships
pren’$ exactly gifts. The boys have ik olen titemu——by

bistktne their Mothers at Christmas and Easter absolutely!

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Beyond that there are no strings.
Or turn to that State oiversity wien a jear or two
hgo diverted $10,000 from its athletic association for
siete + The sum bought football qnd bask@tball

playersess@% $90 per mo.

The same salary scale holds in a ¢ertain other

 

ischool but there the selection of the athletes|who shall

 

 
 

benefit is a matter of pure scienceof trial error, — 8/29/38

| , Prf'd by ma & ff
tach August the football department holds a trsining | Lines @ 60
camp where the versity men stert conditioning hemsel ves

for the Fall schedule. . To the camp come elso the Fresh+
men prospects whom the athletic directe ¥ ame his

 

 

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