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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1942
Most definite proof that colleges and universities are serious about adopting this freshman eligibility rule is revealed in the news that on many Carolina campuses there are high school football stars participating in spring football practice. On several of these campuses the freshman rule is not passed as yet but the players are taking part in spring workouts as "insurance" so that these schools will be well fortified when next fall rolls around.
Fordham is the latest big-time school to pass the freshman rule. The Rams announced yesterday that all freshmen would be eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics starting Sept. 1, 1942. Previous to this statement, the Big Three (consisting of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton—three of the most august, sedate schools in the country) passed the same rule. If colleges of this nature with their huge enrollments see a necessity for making freshmen eligible, then the smaller colleges can do well to follow their example.
WHAT IS HOLDING THE BIG SIX BACK?
Just why the Big Six failed to take some definite action on this situation at their recent meeting in Kansas City is mighty strange. Schools such as Missouri that are opposed to the innovation feel quite smug with the knowledge that a large veteran squad is returning next fall. However, Missouri could be fooled greatly. Don Faurot thought himself quite smart when he saw to it that most of his juniors enlisted in the V-7 branch of the Naval Reserve. It was a wise move and the safest thing to do under the circumstances. V-7, however, isn't definite insurance because one clause in the contract stipulates that the individual may be called at any time if the Navy so desires and the situation is urgent enough.
If something of this nature did happen and the V-7 boys were called to active duty then Missouri would be in the same fix that the majority of other schools are finding themselves in at the present time. In our own midst the Missouri Valley and most of the smaller colleges have adopted the freshman rule. If these schools use their freshmen when they compete against Big Six schools then the latter should be allowed to use their first-year men.
This would result in considerable confusion, however. But it would be the only fair thing to do if the Big Six continues its policy of not competing against teams that have in effect the freshman eligibility rule. In past years Big Six schools refused to schedule games with four-year eligibility schools and yet they will be forced to do this if they refuse to pass the freshman rule.
According to present reports the Big Six is lined up three-three concerning the passage of the rule. The three objecting schools claimed as their excuse that they did not know exactly what the attitude of their schools was on the situation and wished to wait until the May meeting of the Big Six faculty fathers. If the schools would have been truthful they might have said that their athletic departments were not quite ready to go into the open market after high school stars and were stalling for time.
This is the one big objection to the passage of the freshman rule. Competitive bidding for a fancy stepping halftback or a low-slung, hard charging guard will be terrific. A player corresponding to the ability of Northwestern's Bill DeCorrevont a few years ago might be offered everything on the campus except the Chancellor's house and even that, tax free, if he happened to have a four-year deferment from the Army for some reason or other.
THEYLL ALL BE PLAYING FRESHMEN
Another possibility as to why the Big Six refused to take action is because this conference is waiting on the decision of the Big Ten. If that isn't silly! Isn't the Big Six a big enough conference that it can act and move on its own merits without having to wait and follow after a larger organization? If the Big Six fathers do feel this way they are certainly cheapening themselves and the conference by admitting it.
The Big Ten doesn't allow their conference champion or any team for that matter to compete in post-season football games. Yet Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska don't find objections when they get the invitation to rake in from $30,000 to $100,000 on a Sugar, Orange, or Rose Bowl game. Just what can be the trouble now? Are the "big three" of the Big Six afraid that the other schools will also gather in some of the better high school prospects this year?
Yet that can't be a plausible reason because if the bigger schools have been getting the cream of the crop in the past three is no reason to indicate that they will not continue to do so. The only difference that it will make is in the size of the squads.
If the freshman rule does not pass, then the three football powers will have much larger squads from which to work with next fall. More of their (continued to page seven)
Phi Delt's Win Overtime and Beta's by 1 Point Class "C" Finals Tomorrow Morning
INTRAMURAL DRAWINGS
11:00 a.m. Phi Delta Theta vs. Beta.
For Class “C”
Drawings for play-offs in Class A and B were made this afternoon in the intramural office. Only one first round game will be played in Class A and that will pit Alpha Tau Omega against Carruth hail Monday night. Phi Kappa Psi will play the winner. Second round games in the lower bracket find Phi Gamma Delta facing the Hell Hounds and Pi Kappa Alpha playing Newman I. The upper bracket
Phi Delta Theta and Beta Theta Pi last night won their way to the class "C" playoff finals with hairline decisions over slightly favored rivals. The two teams will clash for the championship tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.
The Phi Delt's thought themselves victorious at the end of the regular playing period and left the floor. An examination of the score card revealed, however, that apparently one free throw had not been credited to the Phi Gam's by the scorekeeper. The winners were recalled to the floor, and proceeded to take the contest by way of a long shot by guard Bob Woodbury.
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A free throw by Jim Waugh in the last half minute of the fourth quarter had given the Phi Delt's their tying point. Earlier in the game Waugh and Ralph Weir had carried the scoring burden for the
The Phi Delt's had done it before and last night proceeded to do it again—in fact twice—as they handed Phi Gamma Delta a 22 to 20 trimming in an overtime game.
Oliver Bryan, Tau Kappa Epsilon center, compiled the best scoring average for the regular intramural basketball season just finished. Bryan averaged 13.2 points per game. In second place was Bill Hodge, Phi Kappa Psi ace, with a 12.7 average.
Last year's runner-up, Larry McSpadden of Phi Gamma Delta, finished in fourth place this year behind Harold Wright, Alpha Chi Sigma forward. Jo Fornier, Newman I star and last year's top man, is not in school this year.
Scorekeeper Omits Phi Delt Point
Although Junius Penny finished sixth in point averages, the Newman I guard totaled the highest number of points of any men in intramural competition. He collected 117 points in ten games. Hodge took second place in this division also.
Bryan and Hodge Win Intramural Scoring Honors
In all 13 men finished the season with averages of better than 10 points a game, while nine totaled more than a hundred points.
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Oliver Bryan, Tau Kappa Epsilon 13.2
lon . . .
Bill Hodge, Phi Kappa Psi ... 12.7
Scoring averages:
Oliver Bryan, Tau Kappa Epsi-
winners. Jim Kennedy was the Fiji scoring star.
The Phi Delt's had trailed throughout most of the game. The losers held a 6 to 5 lead at the end of the first quarter, increased it to 11 to 6 at the half, and were still ahead 17 to 14 at the end of the third period.
The Beta's also came from behind, as they defeated the Phi Kappa Psi "C" men 31 to 30. A goal by John Shelton provided the winning margin, after the winners had trailed 11 to 12 at halftime.
Scoring honors for the game went
to big Bill Krum, Phi Psi center, who collected 15 points. Shelton contributed 12 points to the Beta total, while teammate John Kreamer garnered five field goals, most of them coming on long shots from center court.
The Phi Psi outfit used its superior height to dominate the rebounding in the first half, but in the second half Beta speed began to tell.
The Phi Psi defeat was their first of the season, after coming through the regular Division VI intramural play undefeated.
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