WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE
Chicago, Oct. 30 — (UP) — For a man who doesn't have a false moustache, a pair of gumshoes or a skeleton key to his name, I do a pretty good job of snooping. Here I've been in Chicago fewer than 24 hours, yet already I have snooped enough to get a fairly good low-down on why the Pacific Coast conference is so anxious to make the Rose Bowl game a closed affair between one of its members and a representative of the Big Ten.
The coast schools see such a move as a tremendous step toward cleaning up intercollegiate football. For some reason or another football out there in the Golden West is going pure. Either the boys have had enough glory and made enough money, or else they have finally decided that cleanliness is next to godliness. Their G-man investigator, Edward Atherton, is peeking through every gridiron keyhole and seeing to it that things are kept in order.
This sudden shift to the finer and higher things made the selection of a Rose Bowl opponent a bit more difficult. The Coast boys couldn't get the Holy Ivy league or the Army or the Navy or Notre Dame. With the Big Ten (or rather the Big Nine since Chicago took up drop the handkerchief) opposed to post season games the Coast had to get a Rose Bowl rival from the Southeastern or Southwestern conferences. This, is decided, wouldn't do. Because the boys in Dixie and the Southwest openly admit subsidization and will tell you not only
the name and numbers of the players, but the salaries.
So the Coast went to work on the Midwestern powers. It argued, and with much sense, that if Northwestern, Illinois, Michigan, and the others would agree to play in the Rose Bowl, the bad boys among the other schools of the nation would start cleaning house in order to be eligible for a shot at the $100,000 that goes along with a Rose Bowl bid.
In my snooping I learned that if Big Ten officials vote in favor of playing in the Rose Bowl at their meeting on Dec. 6 and 7, it doesn't necessarily mean that the Pasadena fiesta will always be a closed corporation. At least one Mid-western bigwig has indicated that, if after a few years, all universities abided by the N.C.A.A. rules on behavior and ethics, it would be all right for the Coast representative to choose any team it wanted to.
The chances are right now, I gathered with a bit of delicate eavesdropping, that the Western nabobs will vote in favor of making the trip to Pasadena. At the present time four favorable votes are pretty certain, two are indefinite, three are against, and Chicago isn't going to cast a ballot. That's mighty close, but I learned that the indefinite cusses stand to be swayed toward a trip west for the footballers.
One thing is certain: If the Rose Bowl is made c closed, or anything near a closed corporation between
Women's Pan-Hell Plans Iowa Meet
Delegates to the Women's Pan-Hellenic convention in Iowa City, Ia., Nov. 15, will be discussed at a business meeting of that organization tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building, Jeanne Moyer, Fine Arts junior, president, announced today.
Plans will also be made for a dinner for sorority actives and pledges Monday evening.
Women's Archery Finals Tomorrow
The following women have the highest scores in the archery tournament and will compete in the finals at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon: Betty Current, Elizabeth Pearis, Joan Perry, A. L. Fuller, Beth Greene, and Sue Haskins.
the Mid-west and far West, it will lose its standing as the country's greatest intersectional football game. There are bound to be many years when the two conferences are below par and major attention will center on the combats between national leaders in the Sugar, Orange, and Cotton Bowl games.
But this won't matter insofar as the financial take of the Rose Bowl is concerned. The operators could sell it out even if they matched Spearfish Normal and Slippery Rock.
My guess is that the boys in this section will vote to go west starting New Year's Day, 1942. There is a chance, though, that the Coast will withhold its bid until after the western meeting in December, and the marriage will take place this coming New Year.
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