New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-12
HONESTY IN ATHLETICS.
DR.. Quick SPEAKS on the Present
Football Situation.

The present football situation discussed by
DR.. Luther Halsey Gulick president of the Ameri-
can Physical Education Association and secretary
of the Public Schools Athletic League OF New-York
City, before the Peoples Institute last night. lie
spoke substantially follows:
Nothing more hopeful has happened to sport for
nf than the int D is beo
ing sensitive to honesty in athletics 1t does not
WoTse than ' it has been in previous decades The
truth is that there has always been considerable
to violate both the and the spirit CT the game
spect, amateur athletics does not differ from bust
life. social life, religious life. Inter
6eteT nor %orSe Spirit than It
ton ago Players would Occasionally kick each
deal more intercollegiate football than there
financial returns are larger. hence the evils
more glaTing. but do not think they are worse
actve endeaVors viii 6ccasonaV have these as a
cdents. There will always be accidents in swim
ming, rowing sailing riding, mountain climbing,
dents Occur or when injuries occur through the de-
nberate connivance efforts of opponents, then
bodily health to that of morality The great Dues,
tons for US to consider are ethical and social
This is the opportunity have for the de-
velopment OF institutional morality
Control is a necessity to freedom. This paradox
well illustrated in the case of college athletics
The games have developed spontaneously and have
Of Students are out Of athletics Those who need
most to play athletic fields are ordered off the
that type of physique or power which makes them
available intercollegiate material.
If man can earn his living playing football there
will be attracted football of unusual special
gifts in this direction. These will devote time
and knowledge TO the games, such is usually
given to business and 1t will be but few years be-
fore it becomes restricted to the comparatively
few experts who make it their first business. This
is unqualifedly evil 1t is traceable directly to
the practice OF making it financially worth while
for a boy TO become winner in any branch Of ath-
Ietcs 1t makes athletics professional, removes
them from the plane of recreation and places them
beyond the reach of the average man.
There another evil also in connection with paid
athletics. It is this: A man who is paid for his
athletic ability must put up winning game, or in
the course of little time he will be dropped-that
is, it is not merely necessary that he play we'll
1t is necessary that he put up winning game; he
must win. 1t is not a question of sport, it is not
a question of pleasure Of honesty or honor:
it is question of winning This is the Fundamental
difference between the professional and the am
ateur.
The time is coming when teams representing in
situations will meet and part in friendship; when
a competing team will be entertained as the guests
not the foes of the host: when man will be as
keen the athletic honor of his institution as he
Is of his honor. Public opinion needs to CON
tinue express itself, until it is embodied in such
a national institution for the regulation of inter
institutional sport as is already dimly in sight.