LELAND D. CASE EDITOR PAUL TEETOR ASSISTANT EDITOR HARVEY C. KENDALL BUSINESS AND ADVERTISING MANAGER TheROTARIAN ... OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE CHICAGO, ILL. U.S.A. September Tenth 1 9 5 8 Dear Dr. Allen: While you have checked the manuscript on your half of the Athletics debate, we thought you might like to see our presentation of it, and accordingly we are enclosing a set of page proofs. We would ap- preciate your double-check on the story. If you spot anything that seems to need correction, will you please wire us collect as early as possible on Monday (September 12). We are scheduled to close the October issue that night. You will note that the correction you suggested concerning mention of the Big Six Conference has been made, The fact is, we had made the identical deletion the day before we received your note on it. For the bouquet, many thanks—-but I hastened to distribute it among my office colleagues, for the brief processing your article required was a co- operative proposition. Please wire us either your okeh or corrections, and we'll be very much obliged to you. Very cordially yours, : A. Paul Teetor . ‘¢ Dr. Forrest Ailen University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas soir 10, 1958. Thanking you, and with best wishes, I am | , Director of Physical Education, PGAsAH | Varsity Basketball Coaches —- THEROTARIAN: PAUL TEETOR STATE 4016 ASSISTANT EDITOR OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE HARVEY C. KENDALL : BUSINESS AND CHICAGO, FEL: U.S.A. . ADVERTISING MANAGER September Twelfth a 9 5 8 Dear Dr. Allen: We have your wire indicating that the proofs of your article on subsidizing athletes have your approval, and we appreciate very much your promptness in advising us. The October issue will be off the press in about ten days, and we shall indeed be glad to supply you with extra copies. I shall have six sent to you, and if you can use more, just say the word. Very cordially yours, a ee Paul Teetor Dr. Forrest C. Allen Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas llth, stating that the copy you sent me is very satis- se8 factory e Ese ‘a page proofse As I wrote you on September 10 I shall very happy to have some additional copies of the magazine that I may send marked copies to some of my friends. Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCAsAH Varsity Basketball Coach. SELF EERE EF / ss BTC aren't exactly gifts. “visiting their mothers at Christmas and Easter, abso- ‘lutely! Beyond that there are no strings. OCTOBER, 1938 Should College Yes! —> Says Forrest C. Allen Director of Physical Education, Basketball Coach, University of Kansas XS UBSIDIZE college athletes? That’s what we’re doing now—furtively. There is not a college in the United States, excepting Johns Hopkins University and one or two others, that does not subsidize athletes. Take the university with the 40 thoughtful alumni, for a sample. Every year each of these “well-heeled” gentle- ‘men endows four scholarships each of which pays $125 -monthly. This has a way of bringing 160 hand-picked athletes to the campus every Fall. But the scholarships The boys have to earn them—by Or turn to that State university which a year or two -ago diverted $10,000 from its athletic association for ad- vertising. The sum bought football and basketball players . . . at $90 a month. The same salary scale holds in a certain other school, but there the selection of the athletes who shall benefit is a matter of pure science—of trial and error. Each @ Continuing the Debate-of-the-Month Series Ey MC FT RM i og ara LE LIRR ERIE LE SR) CORLL PLETE SIO a ee hj Mer ye er ers - f Cerne ve é eh \ Res Photo: _ Inter- national News Athletes Be Paid? August the football department holds a training camp where the varsity men start conditioning themselves for the Fall schedule. To the camp come also the freshmen prospects whom the athletic director and his aides have corralled during the Summer. Double workouts are held daily, and the new lads who survive the grind are selected to attend the institution—at $90 a month, plus board, room, tuition, and all theater and baseball tickets. Freshmen who make poor showings in the gridiron drills are released—just as are the hopeless rookies in the Spring training camps of baseball’s major leagues. Which is all very convenient. The coach knows what he’s to work with before the boys matriculate—not after. Football is no longer a sport! It’s a business! A sur- reptitious business, a clandestine business—but a business nevertheless! I could offer further proof. I could cite as an added instance the school whose assistant athletic director is a sort of glorified paymaster. He handles all the monetary arrangements for the school’s athletes whether they live on or off the campus. He “cracks down” on them if they violate training rules or let their scholastic averages slip. The football coach and the athletic director, of course, know nothing about it—but you and I both know that they know. Someone has said that our American life divides itsel£ into. three epochs: the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the “passing of the buck.” We are still in the last epoch—in the administra- tion of college athletics. wees ee Everyone with ‘he is naturally dependent for sup- ~with regard to the implication of this statement, the matter shall be referred to the executive committee of the conference for de-. . cision. 22 at least one’ eye half open admits that there is some proselytizing in the present picture—but no one does anything /about it, anything helpful. But something needs dofng because this malignant lesion, this hypo- critical parcelling out of sinecure jobs, is devitalizing many of our best-athletes. Surreptitiously pay a boy more to play football in college than he can earn on the outside in honest employment and you leave a scar on him which he’ll carry far beyond the campus halls. Hav- ing grown used to the feel of this so-called “easy money” during his days of eligibility, he often turns to profes- sional football when his college days are over. You have, in fact, only to study the roster of the professional foot- ball leagues of the United States and note the players’ college affiliations to learn where proselytizing is domi- nant. Now you can’t get rid of this great straight-faced sub- terfuge by talking about it. That has been tried. I doubt if you can get rid of it at all. But you can dignify it—by recognition. You can bring it out into the fresh air of public intelligence, agree on principles, establish a few simple, businesslike procedures—and so achieve scrupulous honesty in the athletic department of an in- stitution dedicated to honest thinking, the college. Talking, I have just said, has been tried. Three years ago the Committee on Student Group Life drew up some Stand- ards of Athletic Eligibility. The National Association of State Universities endorsed them. Ar- ticle III of these Standards pro- vides that: The faculty committee on eligi- bility shall, in advance of compe- tition, require of each candidate for competition in any sport a detailed statement in writing of the amounts and sources of his finan- cial earnings and income received, or to be received during the college year and the previous Summer, from others than those upon whom port. In case any question arises If the above unfair discriminatory regulation does not produce mass perjury, then pass judgment upon the fol- lowing edict from the same Standards of Athletic Eligi- bility: Every candidate for an athletic team must, after a Soskal explanation of all the eligibility regulations and their impli- cations of honor, by the faculty committee on athletics, de- -clare orally to the committee and in writing upon his honor his eligibility or ineligibility under each separate regulation. Each member of the athletic staff, physical-education depart- ment, athletic council, and faculty committee on athletics Shall upon his honor in writing certify his own adherence to all the athletic regulations and to the best of his knowledge Photo: International News Preaek 4 ma | REVISE Nov. the eligibility or ineligibility of eyéty member of the team: that represents the institution. There is no admission si(omtestion here stated that the majority of/athletes are/receiving secret subsidies, but the very one this ac immediately gives it the spirit of the inquisition, and/then the crime results in getting caught. This scheme/above mentioned was in operation a decade ago concerfling Summer baseball for collegians, and it faite d dismally. It is working no better today. Openj/honest s subsidy i is the only answer. But by sub- sidizing I do not mean the hiring of athletes merely for playing ability, at a salary based on skill. We have that_‘ sort of thing now in the tramp athlete, the youth who seeks to bartér his physical prowess not in-exchange for an earnestly desired education, but only for an attractive monetary /consideration. I am velfemently. opposed to him andyhis kind, asy I am certain, most college coaches AY are. Ta n irrevocably against professionalism of ort®— BL. in college athieties+— gt tt But if subsidizing means “to furnish aid with a sub- sidy,” or to give the athlete an even break with other students, then my answer is Yes! And why not? Today is the age of subsidizing. James Bryant Co- nant, president of Harvard, stated recently that Harvard would subsidize the best young brains of the United States at his institution. Students pre- paring for law, medicine, engineering, the ministry, and all the professions have been and are subsidized through scholarships and fellowships. Why exclude physical education and ath- letics? “Without discrimination for or against the athlete” has long been the slogan of the present purity col- legiate eligibility rules committee. There has been much talk but little action to shift that principle into gear. Byron (“Whizzer”) White, superb football player from Colorado, is to be subsidized in England with a Rhodes Scholarship. Yet if the English prac- tice of subsidizing Rhodes Scholars were applied to our American college athletes, all would be declared ineligi- ble by our own eligibility committees. One of the requirements of the Rhodes Scholarship is, in fact, that the applicant be outstanding in at least one sport. English education, in other words, encourages physical skill, while American education looks upon that kind of skill with suspicion. The athlete, I repeat, is already and many times dis- criminated against. Just why should the finger of sus- picion be pointed at a healthy, husky American boy be- cause he wants to play a game in which he excels? Why should he be hailed into an academic court, lectured to, and cht caused to sign papers and also to declare orally that he——~~ is without stain of professional guilt any more than the rotund and dappered campus luminary with a Carus voice ae sells his talent ee , te [Continued c on page 3 OF MA ~ WW _y hour’s work, the-athlete-immediately \be- “demic credit\the two preceding semesters. \ lem red possess 28 hours of aca- oF / : () . ae: Hh. Qg cheat sO Ao ow _ ‘ — f Vr Th é ahaa rita daAntrdwn4a J ‘) ‘ 60s /VOLAL here — Det An Liny Paif Should College Athletes Be Paid? Yes!—Says Forrest C. Allen | % At [Continued from page 22] ‘Cs other beneficiaries. Coaching and physi- cal education are professions, and the sooner we have a newer and a better un- derstanding of these moot points, the bet- ter off all of us will be. Who can say that from a great army of aspiring youth, tingling with the love of contests and con- quests, it is not possible to discover an- other young Naismith, a Stagg, a Gulick, a MacKenzie? These men were all poonboys. They struggled for their edu- cation ‘and they competed in athletics when their‘parents frowned upon the pro- fession they were to take up. Since those days, physical education has been digni- fied and edified, until now we have giants of intellect as well as\physique in the field of physical education. singing at funerals” and collects a tidy sum for singing ina church choir, and in ad- dition gets“credit toward graduation for his singirig in that choir? No,€redit is given the\athlete for par- ticipating in daily two-hour\practice drills on the football field, or for-phaying 1 regularly scheduled contest. should go down town and play in competitive game with an outside team, even without remuneration, he would automatically become ineligible. If the athlete should referee an intramural game-of any kind for the-same amount of money that the singer receives for his comeg a professional and + ineligible to play. When playing for his school in an intercollegiate contest, he receives no academic credit, but credit toward grad- uation is given members of the band who play between halves at. the same game. If you want to teach history or chem- istry, you can carry the minimum load the school requires and take as long as you desire to complete the course. But if you want to coach athletics and seek to earn a varsity letter as a recommenda: young athlete to use his skills just as does’ the student of art or musica, It has been said that the rhythm and the poise and the timing of a superb athlete are art and poetry in action. \ But life is full of paradoxes. With one hand we give money to aid the physically crippled, and with the other we give boodle money to cripple mentally the physically strong. 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This is com- parable to the present international sit- uation, when. the world powers say we must be prepared, we must protect our- selves against the outlaws. Colleges should take a page from the State of New York- in its educational policy regarding high schools. All activi- ties of the high schools, including all forms of competitive athletics, are under the direct control of the high-school ad- ministration. There is no such thing as an athletic association. If colleges would abolish their athletic associations, with their alumni and student boards, and if the universities would handle athletic “funds the same as all other State-appro- priated funds, then such bugbears as high-priced coaches’ salaries and bits of skullduggery such as diverting $10,000 or more from advertising channels into a “slush fund”—then much of the grief of our present athletic catastrophe would be done away with. ee \. James Rowland Angell, when presi- dent of Yale University, once made the casé for competitive sport groups when he sat: ae __We-mist-believe inn all sincerity, as I am sure many of us\do not, that physical education, in- cluding competitive ‘sports, is an essential part of the obligation. of the college and in no sense a mere excrescence, to be confided to the casual outsider or to the\ transient apprentice. We must recognize that it,stands in the closest pos- sible relation to moral education, which we often pronounce as one of the prime duties of the college, if not, indeed, the ‘very first. We must believe unreservedly in sports for the whole college community, and competitive group sports as far as possible. If, then, physical education in the largest sense is an intrinsic. part of the work of the college, why should there longer be hesitation in recognizing that fact, and_ accept- ing the full responsibilities which go with. it? Why should there-be, indeed? The core of the whole question is, what is bet-_ ~“te\for youth? To answer, we must make, Shall we continue a system \ ‘achoice. that puts a premium on hypocrisy and dishonesty, that encourages selfishness and parisitism, that warps youth’s view | of life far out of line with the actual? Or shall we teach our young men to be realistic, to value their potential contribu--~ tions as highly as\th¢ lassics or chem- “Gstry student values ‘his?-and therefore to. ~ expect and get equal recognition? The choice, to me, seems obvious. Fae Ror’ \ ce Ly Ree g