The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-11-17
BUYING FOOT
BALL VICTORIES.

Golfers for November IL begins a
series of articles on the corruption of
college foot ball. This series includes
the Universities of Chicago, Illinois.
/ Northwestern, Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Minnesota. In the initial article
MIR. Edward s. JORDAN, the author of
the series, says by way of lntroduction
The most important task of uni
versity is the making of good citizens
Any phase of university endeavOr that
is inimlcal to this aim, and contrib
utes in any degree to Its defeat, is
foreign to college ideals and a danger
to the State. Any pursuit that
jeopardiZes the character or endangers
the best moral development of the
college man has no place IN college
life.
I'm no section of America today is
this attitude more necessary than IN
the colleges of the Middle West, ae-
boys from localities that are virtually
pioneer In their nature are being edu-
Gated to perform useful work in life.
They have few traditions behind
them. no generations OF character cult
walton, and thousands of them are de-
pendent upon themselves for their edu-
cation. They go to college uncuItured,
crude, and in Plastic moral state,
and leave with characters virtually
formed through college associations,
influences, and conditions. 1t is ap.
parent that the responsibility of q
Western college is manifold, and the
duty OF encouraging the development
of decent clIiZens paramount.
Thousands of Western boys, with
serious ambition, enter college every
year. unsolicited by the colleges, and
unknown to the world. These meu
constitute the future talent of the
State. With them enter scores of ath
letes, upon the solicitation of the uni
versities, and for participation in
athletics alone. These men would
make faLby backbone for State.
Faculty men In every college tell me
that lin their college, this evil, for
1t is dangerous evil, does not exist.
They are either blind, fearful for their
positions, OF deceive themselves pitt
fully. Coaches and managers have
told me that the greatest evil In col
leges today is the prostitution of
academic ideals in the pursuit OF attn
letic prestige.
Coach George Huff, of the University
of ILLINOIS, one of of the oldest and
best coaches In the West, told me that
there are more liars and hypocrites
than amateurs made through the efforts
of colleges to keep within the boun-
diaries of the Conference rules He
added that he had seen but few college |
athletes of any ability who were will |
ling to study and do honest work to
sustain themselves in college after /
position on the team bad been assured, |
and he asserted further that victory in |
the West today depended upon the |
ability of the colleges to sustain men |
by devious means. Coach Walter Mac
CoInack ana Manager Frank o. Smith, |
Of the Northwestern team. both agree
IN the assertion that the campaign
for men carried on by the friends of
has made CRATER of
every athlete of ability in the West.
OF these statements are well based-and
Dne would suppose them to be, coming
from men directly interested in the
for men-then faculties
would prove their honesty by sitting
OaIs against what even coaches call
grafters. and fulfilling their duty
20 the commonwealth.
THE conviction that these statements
ire only too true Will follow compIe-
pension of the methods that have been
Used TO get the best athletes in the
Vest iptJ universities. In this cam.
,algn no university in the lntercol-
egiate Conference has been without
aint.