ball on le Pacific Coast? Would the Orego ncident spread elsewhere? This fear ~emed valid, for similar legal pro- e ngs have just been brought by ding young lawyers against the As- Aciated Student corporation at the /University of Washington. Not since the ' yoters canceled the Associated Student dues has Oregon’s football team been in the first division. And the profes- sors, prior to hiring Atherton, implied that the whole episode was a hint to do something about the gravy train. Will the investigation result in that something being done? Probably ail the big colleges in America will watch intently for the answer to this question, because Atherton himself maintains, “The Pacific Coast Conference is not faced with any peculiar problems of its own but is confronted with the same dif- ficulties which beset college athletics all over the country.” The one-time F. B. I. agent makes it clear that al- though the gravy train may be diluted, it most certainly will not“be emptied out. He believes that most of the lads who play football must earn their way through college. Making the Gravy Train Legal How, he asks, can they do both these things and also keep up in their studies? Intercollegiate football is a rigorous game. It requires intensive practice and rigid conditioning. Trips are long and games give hard knocks. Can a boy, twenty-one or twenty-two years old, go through all this and still hold down a job and go to classes? Atherton thinks such a schedule would impose a strain on the constitution of an African elephant. “The results of my survey,” the former G-man says, “will be carefully analyzed by the faculty men and from this analysis the conference hopes to be able to establish definite and reason- able rules concerning legitimate finan-_ cial aid to athletes. These rules will be enforced by an organization set up by the conference for this purpose.” Such words are reassuring, but the coaches and athletic directors are hold- ing their breaths and waiting to see what happens. Some of them are not so sure that an incident that occurred a short time ago might not have been the cul- minating event in persuading the profes- sors to hire Atherton. Collier's for November 19, 1938 Reed College is a completely aca- demic little institution in Oregon, from which its young president, Dexter M. Keezer, likes to take pot shots at big- time football and condemn the confer- ence schools for being “immersed in commercialized athletics.” One day he was scheduled to address an alumni meeting. He had no particular message to impart, so he addressed them humor- ously—or at least he thought it was hu- morously. He said Reed College had stayed out of big-time football long enough. The situation would be remedied by hiring the best team in the country. Players would be paid a going wage for their services, getting from $70 to $100 a month. There also would be a special faculty solely concerned with the duty of doing the players’ lessons for them. As an added inducement to the athletes, ‘the profits from football games would be divided on a 50-50 basis, with half going to the college and half to the play- ers. The athletes’ share of the gate re- ceipts would be impounded in a trust fund, with each player getting his cut on graduation day. The boys would be re- warded in direct proportion to their value to the team. A touchdown would net so much money, a tackle so much, a completed pass so much, and right on down the list. Keezer expressed the hope that this would result in a do-or- die spirit and a’ will to win never before seen on a football field. These words were duly reported in the press. The next day the Reed College gym- nasium swarmed with brawny young men. They jammed the place to the doors. All wanted positions on the won- der team of the age. Hundreds of letters came from coaches desiring to lead this super-aggregation. In the early morning hours Keezer was dragged out of bed by an urgent long-distance telephone call. “Say, is this Doc Keezer?” asked the | voice of a football coach of some fame in the Far West. ‘That idea of yours is great stuff. It'll have all this other two-for-a-nickel business beat a mile. Let me coach ’at team of yours and we can lick our weight in mountain lions. Any kid who gets $100 a touchdown is gonna score. ’At’s all—he’s gonna score!” Keezer hung up the phone sadly and went back to bed. “They say they bought tickets on the fifty-yard line and they're going to sit on the fifty-yard line” ROBERT DAY 81 No BULGE Not just service but presentable service, is the mark of true shoe quality. Ankle-Fashioning, exclu- sively Nunn-Bush, prolongs good looks, improves fit, adds to comfort. 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