in. 1). 1a ‘ : if it ith Hl ; Hit i i: asi} | j fli it 1 if ght e al if if iu ity 3 uo i : i ta an p Ht i Hi mh adh if (il ju pai i aul ia, F i .f iL 1, ale ia fi fa , fal jie va (3 i i ala a yu nt if; bil iM vi yl § Cy * oat in Lae ao A sil i eo 4 ‘ lial ni HE sa ae 7 Te ln AT i g y 7 a il: it i : a hi fi th : 1k ills zee DR, FORREST C, ALLEN, Director of Physical Edueation and Varsity Basketball Coach, University of Kansas, Lawrences, Lansate Director of wee eee oom, oaks =~ fron 1919 to 19S7-. Built Hemoriel Stadi. horseshoo type of saclay soating Si,000, ira’ euch Stacin completes woo: of Wissicsipgi Rivers Founded Keneas Relays in 1923- Won Dig Six Conferences basketball chaapiawhips « 7 ow of last & yoarse Caiman of Fifth Uetrict Tasketball Rules Comittes of Tatiom) Collegiate Athletie association. ileuber of Rules Cami'tttes for past 12 yoarae Chairam of Research Committees, Organized and sorved as SC ee Athletic Director and coach af all . Centenl Missa State Teashers College, ) Moey = i919« Coached football at University of Kansas, | Habs dinin 36 dlesiahinniitety th bisbiabeth tic Wi jenna tn msec’ Conferemee axd Big Six Conferences Have had tuo everevictoi ious 1925 ami 1956, in which mo games wore lest during seasone Won 22 championships owt of 27 years basketball coachinge SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE SUBSIDIZED? YES% -s banister of Hyetoad ietion, Varsity Coach, University of Kensas Lawrence, Kanse Ta eee ee a Subsidising dos not moon the hiring of players merely far playing ability, at a salary teased on sidil, Thet is professiamlians Then the anower for the colleges is enpietically, Nod If subsidising moans "to fumish aid with a sub sidy", or to give the athlete an even break with othes in extracurricular activities, ‘then Yoo And wy not? Twenty years ago, when intercollegiate football was on trial because of physical dangers to the participants, tho late Theodore Roosevelt, ex~president of the United States, saved the gam for the good that he thought it possessade Today, with the game on trial again, this time because of alleged moral and spiritaml dangers, there is neod of another evolutionary leader instead of a revolutionary once Same facetious wag has said the only difference between a professional and an amateur was that the suntour would not take a chooks Another nino has suggested that the foursletter boy in college nowwdays was the boy with large capital letters in a comentele eisole over his chests GwA we 8 = H, "ithout disoriminstion for or against the athlete" has lag boo the Slogan of the present purity collegiate eligibility rules camittess There has been much talk but little action to bring this matter squrely out in the open. Today is the age of subsidizing. President Je By Commt, of Narvard,University, stated recently thet Harvard would subsidize the best young brains of the United States at hic institu- tione The student preparing for law, medicine, ongincering, the ministry, and all of athletics? Byron "“Whisuer" White is to be subsidised in Bnglémd with e Rhodes Scholar~ shipe Yet if the Inglish practice of subsidizing Rhodes Scholars were applied to our imerican college athletes, all of our boys would be declared ineligible by our ow | 26 American colloginte eligibility causitices. If subsidizing were dignified by recoge nition, then the insidious proselyting that is so dasinant today anang 907 of our American colleges would be much @ininisheds This mlignant athletic lesion that de- vitalizos may of our best athletes by the systen's hypocritical handling of sinecure jobs should be out oute Study the roster of the profession. football leagues of the United States with the playors' college affiliations, for a pretty fair appraisal of where proselyting is dainante Hy soars are carried fur beyond the academic hall by surveptitiously paying a boy moro to play football in college than he can earm on the outside in honest employments The bey hawing tal this so-called “easy mony" during his eligibility playing days quite mtwelly tums to professiam] football von his eligibility ic exdwusteds Some of our American wmiversity aduduistrators cufvor fran a deadly dies | enet « the discaso of “buck passing”. The three great epochs in our /merican life aro the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the yeasing of the buke We readily recognise same alarming and attendant evils comected with “intercollegiate athletics in sone sectors, especially foctball. However, there is, in vy opinion, a fax better way of mocting the abtendaut evils then that endorsed by the National Association of State Universities consarming thai "Standards of Athletic BMigibility", draw up ty the camittes on Student Group Lifo, Noveuber, 1985, Article III of theiy vegulations follows: “the faculty camittes on eligibility chal, in advance of competition, reguize of euch candidate for campetition in auy sport, & detailed statement: in writing of the anounts and sources of his financial earnings and income received, or to be received during the college year and the previous sumer, fron others than those upon whon he is naturally dependent for supporte . In cage eny question exises with regard to the implication of this statenmt, the matter shall be referred to the exnoutive committee of the conference for decisions" If the above unfair discriminatory regulation dose not produce mass perjury, thon pass judgacut upon tle following edict: “very candidate for an athlotic toon must, after a careful explanation of all the eligibility regulations end their Se impldontions of honor, by the faculty cauittes on athictics, declare orally to the camittes and in writing upon his honor his eligibility or ineligibility umder each separate regulations Tach mauber of tho athlctic staff, physical education department, athletic council, and cnculty camittee on athletics, sinll upon his honor in writing cortify lie om adherence to all the uthlctic regulations and to the best of his Inow- lodge the cligitt ity or incligibility of every mexber of the tem that represents the institutions” = oe | There is no admission or confession here stated that the mJority of athletes “ere receiving secret subsidies of a clandestine mature, but the very tone of this act imediavely tales on the spirit of the inquisition, end then the crime results in getting caugiite This schene above noutioned wes in operatien a decade ago concerning cumor bascbell for collegiaus, and it failed diamllye You ou I mow tint Sretemniides and sorortties food atliletes, who, boing without the price of eats, pack a foctball and a sturdy pair of legs goals! and to glory, You and I: Imow that fratemities and sororities index "wou" get tom papors and ‘exenimetion questions from year to year, even going so far as to detemiine just what pedagogue received this or that epistle and noting upon whom it should or should not be used at the next future times oe You cnd 2 both 1now tint the. studkts on thts gront Anortoan Srontior weed expert "pantes” long before the autancbile age, and tat professors who caused students to sign the “no.oribling™ emm bleu: Inew £2 wl that may whp eigned wore ithor going to crib or had already done soe Just ac long as students are roguired to do many tinge in wich’ thy have ho interoat these “got ty" raclerte will bo Shitgod Sn with no quaine of tie consoien00. The athlote is already aud mmy times discriminated against, Just why chould the finger of suspicion be pointed at a twoxfisted, healthy Anerican boy becaune he wants to pley 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 orelly that he is without stain of professional guilt any more than the music or art student who is not 4 Si GRE Rt Rede PERN E RE LE FEK 2 only paid a tidy sum for singing in a clarch choir, but in addition is given credit toward graduation for his singing in that cboire _ Wo oredit is given the athlete for participating in daily two hour practice Ari11s on the football field, or for playing in a regularly stheduled contests But if he should go down tm and play in eny competitive game with en outside team, oven without remmeration, he would autamtioally became ineligible. If the uthlete should - Feferee an intramural game of any kind for tho sane emowtt of money that the singer receives for his one hour's work, the athlete immediately bocanes a professicmi and 4g ineligible to plays When playing games for his sehool in intercollegiate athletic contests no acadenic credit is given for this activity, but eredit tomnd gadustion | is given a manber of the bend for his services, It is thinkmble thet you could take athletic coaching by correspondence and maybe you could got a job at samo Mine school, but it is improbables By caming ee ee ee ee en | you desired to teach listory or chontstey, you could carry the minim the school re quired and you could tale as long es you desire to complete the courses But if you care to participate in intercollegiate athletes you mst possess 28 how's of aeadanic credit the two preceding semesters before you can enter the gume laboratory of athletic instructione 4 recent survey was conducted in cue of our coweducational mid-western universities to determine what percentage of the male student body was eligible for athletic competition under the present ruling of 26 hours of passing vork the two preceding semesterse The findings were interestinge Out of a total enrollment of 2700 men students, 1240 were eligible and 1460 were ineligibles a little less than 46% were oligible for athletic participxtion had they the ability and desire for varsity athletic competitions Undeniably it is unjust to the athlote to foous so much attention upen the undesirable reflection that he brings upon his school and himself when his class ¢ § 5e It ie Just as logical to think that wo should have physieal edueation scholarships as well as any other special scholarships which are offered wy alwmi and other benefieieviets Cushing ant yiysienl ehuation ave profession, ant the scmer we havo @ newer and a better understanding on these most points, the better off all of us will bee Who can say thet from a great amy of aspiring youth, tingling with the love of contests and conquests, it is not possible to discover another young Naimith, a Stage, a Guldck, or a MacKensie? These mon were all poor boyse They struggled for their education and they competed in athletics whon the yarents of these boys frowned _ upon the profession that they were to tale upe Since those days physical edueation has boon dignified and edified, until now we have gients of intellect as well as physique in the field of physical eduontions | : Agnin I might ask why is 4t not possible for this young athlote to use his | gills thet are so highly developed in his quest for a higher oduoation, the same as the etudont of art end musice Great roceurch mon declare that tie siytim and the poise end the timing of a superb athlete are art and pootry in actions Pron @ practical necessity, tho cowsalled poor bay who is skilled in athe lotic endoaver loots to his atdilled physical activity as logitdnmte means of obtaining & college education, “hon college days caw up this sowelled poor boy, who has been fod on goarse but wholeccne food and hes boon forced to labor throughout the day and into the night sauvtimes for a vare existence, is a fit subject for the so-called Allegnl athletic scholarship because he is tough cnough to etand the football mckeds And our average social “mezzanine hurdler" and ‘sooky~pusher" who is surfeited on the prosdigestod food, the Inte hours, plus covlétal) partiesand the autasdbile, is no £4t subject for a concl:’s perfect dren, Tho will say that tis foasless and rugged clap, ontowed with loture's wovlerful phyotique and a fino bein, nen" a tuch right to use his Godegiven talents as a favorable introdustion to a college education, as is 7 the rotund end dapper high school ludimry with a Carusean voles who uses his talents in the fine arts singing at fumeralse Ce oo Tt 45 a notorious fact that tho wealthy alumi of sono of the oldest colleges in America have long subsidised this so-called poor boy with heavy and powerful gastroc= nenius and biceps muscles to the sowalled glory of their elm meter. Dut when the Southeastern Conference proposes © new deal that perhaps is radical, cme of these sane representatives throw their hands up in horror and ory, "Sing Sing" | “A shameful procodure happened a fow years ago in our om Pig Six Caxference, wien it wis nesossary to resort to the application of a retrosctive rule to mils Jim Pausch @ professional, although ho was hired by on insurance company at $7500 a month, @ thing tint 1s practiced and has beon practiced for years ty ‘athletes of other schools which are menbers of conferences many, mimy times older than the Big Six Conferences Life is full of paradoxes. "e give money to aid the physically crippled youg, and in the next breath we give money to mentally eripple the physioally stronge It is easy to collect a thousand dollars for a slush fund for cortain purposes, where otherwise you wuld be umble to collect a lundred dollars for certain legitimate activities. : The Associated Press out of Los Angeles, on Jonwary 17, 1938, states ag follows 4 Survey of Const: Sports Former G