The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-13
GRLDLPON GOSSIP, WEST AND EAST
REDHOT TALKING
FROM WISCONSIN
Daily Cardinal Is Sweeping in Its
Accusations Regarding ANA
teur Athletics.

Madison, Wis, Oct. 1s.-Charles II. Kilpat-
r1ck, graduate manager OF the athletics Of the
University Of Wisconsin and coach of the track
team; also Andrew ODea, coach of the Wiscon-
sin crews and trainer of the football team, must
go. That is the motto of a well-organized por-
ton Of the most influential students here, and
the campaign is being waged with great earnest
ness and assurance of success These students
control the university official daily newspaper.
and system of pursuit of professional coaches
has been inaugurated which, it is declared, will
not end until the last professional high -salared
coach has taken his departure. Ne campaign
is prosecuted under the announced Lille Of oppo-
sition to professionalism in athletics, but it is
undoubted that the $40, 900 of debts now carried
by the Wisconsin Athletic association has much
to do with it. Last week the most violent edi-
torial expression in this regard appeared in the
official paper, the Daily Cardinal, quotations
from which follows:
Years ago, before coaches and teams began
to ride around In parlor cars, athletics at Wis
consin were pure There barbed wire
threatening the students that hedged the lower
campus and enthused over a team made up of
unpaid and unhired men. The professional coach
came from the east and said he wanted men.
Me- Men came for their price: He got them and
went wide open for time. Still the academic
did not suffer greatly. Then Wisconsin threw
up her hands, crossed herself and said: It's
all wrong Professionalism must co. Michi-
gan, Minnesota and Chicago happened to be say
ing the same thing at the time, and they
agreed. Then and there the latest stage of this
| disgusting game Of hypocrisy and causistry and
dishonesty entered upon. We are told that
Michigan has businesslike system Of securing
| professional Chicago and Minnesota are
under similar charges 1t does not remove any
Of the odium from Wisconsin to say that she has
no businesslike system We believe she is
losing her athletic prestige. Some attribute
that to this plain fact Michigan and the rest
have system of getting men for money. Plain
currency and checks. Wisconsin gets them Jobs,
handles patronage and deals with them eco
nomincally as she can. Men tell us she thereby
| accomplishes only the determination of herself,
and sacrifices the privilege of holding sister uni
| versities to the rules Of the conference. She
drags along for the lack Of business system
at the end Of the scoring column. We know
that there Is professionalism in every university
| in the west. Everyone does. But everyone
simply whispers it. 1t is to laugh. Strange
| ethics these. Ethe1cs of commercial coaching,
we say. professionalism is going to wreck both
academic and athletic standards ultimately. We
| look for some giant Of morality, who knows
pure athletics; president like that Of
Brown, who is fighting rank rottenness, despica-
BILE lying in athletics, to. save Wisconsin from
| the catacombs where rest the athletic hulks OF
| Belolt and Northwestern"