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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 19, 1947
By BILL CONBOY
If every high school athlete knew that he could legitimately receive a minimum amount from any school of his choice, he would then tend to go where the best education was offered. Now, however, the choice is usually between a school offering no financial inducement and a school ready to bid for his services.
"Frosty" Cox, Colorado basketball coach, favors limited athletic subsidization. He told us before his game with the Jayhawks last Friday that moderate athletic scholarships, openly given by all schools, would be the best solution to the present cut-throat competition for high school athletes.
This scholarship should be administered directly by school authorities, not by alumni. The Colorado cage boss believes such an open and above board policy would do much to eliminate the present undercover recruiting policies carried on by many schools.
Cox contends that all colleges and universities should agree upon a minimum amount which could be offered prospective athletic stars. The standard should be uniform throughout the country.
"It is because many schools are not allowed to offer even moderate athletic scholarships that the harmful practices in bidding for athletes have arisen," declared the former Kansas court star.
"Frosty" Cox believes that men who participate in sports at a college or university deserves a small financial reward for their services. Football players practice two and three hours every day through all kinds of weather for 90 days during the fall semester.
The same is true of the men who play basketball. Then once again in the spring semester, football practice opens daily sessions. Track men work out faithfully to get in shape for early meets through the coldest months of the year. Baseball practice opens. All of these events require time, lots of time. All of them require work.
When the results come, it is the other students and the school concerned which can bask in the glory brought home by the athletes. Why shouldn't the men who worked for those honors receive something for their efforts?
The vital point to the coach of the Boulder school is that it should be the school administration which openly gives the athletes a standard amount. Cox believes all the present evils in recruiting come from athletic offers being forced underground.
He agrees with Cancellor Malott that portions of the present NCAA stand on recruiting of athletes are both hypocritical and incapable of being enforced. Cox believes that the NCAA rulings will but succeed in pushing present financial transactions further beneath a cloak of secrecy. The only reasonable and adequate solution is to allow all schools to offer the same standard inducement in an open, legal manner.
We asked him how this would solve problems such as reportedly exist in the Southern and Southeastern conferences, where wealthy alumni are said to offer fabulous sums from their own pockets to high school stars from any section of the country. Cox believes that this situation would clear itself up if his proposal was given fair trial.
"Athletes would not be so strongly attracted by such offers as they now are. If a boy knows he can receive living expenses in his home state, he will go to school there rather than traveling to a strange institution as the undercover hired hand of some stranger. Eventually, such high powered recruiting methods would lose their force and fall of their own weight," the Buffalo coach said.
Women's I-M Winners
(University Daily Kansan photo by Ralph Keen)
Here is the Kappa Kappa Gamma team that won the Intramural women's basketball tournament by beating the IWW team recently. They are left to right, back row: Eleanor Churchill, Kathleen McKelvey, Francis Schutz, Mary Jean Hoffman. Front row: Helen Pillar, Maxine Gunsolly, and Josephine Stuckey.
Texas Champs Meet Wyoming In Playoff
Austin, Texas—(UP)—The University of Texas basketball team shoved off for Kansas City today to launch its third try for the national collegiate basketball at the western NCAA basketball playoff.
The Longhorns, Southwest Conference champions and losers of only one game all season—a one-point loss to Oklahoma A. & M. early in the year—were heavy favorites.
The Texas team clashes with Wyoming University Friday in its first NCAA game. In 1943, the Longhorns were downed by Wyoming at Kansas City, 58 to 54, and the Wyoming team went on to win the national crown.
Charley Black Chosen Honorary '47 Captain
Charley Black, Jayhawker all-Big Six and all-American forward; was elected honorary captain of the team for the 1946-47 season.
Coach Howard Engleman made the announcement at a dinner given in honor of the squad by the Lawrence Cooperative club Tuesday night.
"Black is without doubt one of the best basketball players ever to wear a crimson and blue uniform," Engleman said.
A letter signed by squad members and club members was mailed to Dr. Forrest C. Allen, wishing hirn quick recovery from ill health. Dr. Allen is now resting in California.
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