SHOULD COLLEGE ATHLETES BE SUBSIDIZED? YES%

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banister of Hyetoad ietion,
Varsity Coach,
University of Kensas
Lawrence, Kanse

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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