heve coralled during the Suamer. Double ae are
held daily, end the new lads who survive the grind are
selected to attend the institution—at|$90 per|month,

|plus board, room, tuition,end ell theater and hesebell

 

tickets. Freshmen who make poor showings ih the grid

  
  

drills are released—-just as are the hopeless rookies
's Majdr Leagues

Which is all very convenient. The coa¢h knows |what he's

in the Spring training camps of baseb

 

to work with before the boys matriculate——not me

Foo€ball is no longer 2 sport. I's ea busginess§-—

a" surreptitious business, & clandestin siknidicuies a

 

business nevertheless§ I could offer further yroof. I

could cite as an edded instance the scljtool whoge assist+

 

nt athletic director is & sort of glovified paymaster.
E handles all the monetary arrangements for the school
ethletes whether they live on or off the campug. He
cracks down" on them if they violate training jrules

pr let their scholastic averages slip. | The foqtball

pbhout ite-but you and I both know that |they knqw,

 

Someone has said thet our American life divides ite
pelf into three epochs: The passing off the Indian, the
passing of the buffalo, and the "passing of th¢e buck."
fe are still in the middle of the last epoch——so fer as
the administration of college ethleticd is conderned.
Everyone with at least one eye half open admita thet
there is some proselytizing in the pregent picture——but
ho one does anything about A oenmysht ng helpfull. But
Eomething needs doing because this malignant ldsion,

this hypocritical pareelling—-out of sinecure Jabs is

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Hevitelizing many of our best athletes, Surrestitiously

 

coach and the ethletic director, of course, knqw nothing

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