New Britain herald., 1916-10-07
YALE ATHLETIC
 COST ATTACKED High Priced Coaches Not Thought We'll Of by "RoCeiVerS"

New Haven, Oct. I'm turning ever the report to the new Yale ath- letic committee, the receivers of Yale athletics" Professor Robert Corwin, George P. Day and Henry Hobson, aE- , serted that if athletics should go to- further heights of extravaganza and ebsurdity it might be abolished at E Yale. It advocated abolishing high priced coaches. The reports says:
 This committee desires to call the attention of the corporation to the continually increasing competition for supremacy among rival universities, as exemplified in the employment of expensive staffs of coaches.
 "The budget for Yale football x coaching for one year alone is consid- erable, and this money is expended in the employment of a small number of men for the period of only a few weeks out of the year. The expenses for the coaching of the crew are pro- pcrtionately large, although at pres
 ent a considerable sum of money is contributed by graduates to that end. We are given to understand that large sums of money are contributed for similar purposes by graduates at oth- cr universities.
 
 unchecked, may so increase as to make intercollegiate athletics an un- profitable scramble for the raising of ' huge sums of money for the payment < of the disprop portionate salaries de- manded by expert coaches.
 "It may be urged that Yale cannot forego such advantages unless her ri- vals follow her example, but present practices must it would seem, lead to
 still greater lengths of extravagance
 and absurdity. For this reason it has
 been felt by your committee that uli- mately the suggestion must be seff- ously considered that in time all pay | ment of salaries to coaches for Yale | athletics should cease, and unless | Yale can from her own resources. graduate and undergraduate, develop
 her teams without such artificial stim- ulants, so that she can reasonably compete with her rivals, it would be best to eliminate intercollegiate ath- letics altogether until the dawn of an era of reasonableness in such things
 Tt might come with somewhat T poor grace from Yale at this time to urge upon others this course of ac- ton. None the less, it may not be amiss even at this time to close this report with a reference to matter which may sooner or later require definite decision
 Tt is our belief that many of the perplexing and disagreeable problems of eligibility take their origin from this multiplication of expensive coach- 1 ing staffs, and extravagant parapher- nalia. It is impossible to devise oTsi | fully enforce eligibility rules which will cover all cases of so-called profess sionalism unless there is a high spirit Of honor among the candidates for teams. This spirit cannot be best fos- tered in an atmosphere of lavish 6k- penditure, now considered necessary. owing to the nature of the rivalry above referred to. We should like to t see Yale, in the near future, inaugur- ate a system of restraint, upon such expenditures; but first we believe that cnly through standardization of au- thority and control by the corporation of the university and, through the fac- ulty, with such graduate assistance as may be enlisted, can such reforms be either wisely formulated or effectively enforced.
 We are not unduly impressed with the desire or demand for athletic su- premacy but we do feel that so long as Yale makes herself responsible through the corporation, the faculty, 3 the graduates and the undergraduates for orderly, effective, and wise con- duct of this branch of undergraduat activity, continued failure can only result in ever growing distrust and despondency and consequent injury to the general morale of the institution and the public regard for the univer- sity
 Lack of discipline from the top to the bottom of the whole structure of ! the Yale Athletic association is re- sponsible for many of it's ills, and 1t is our belief that regard for wise dis cipline is one of the principal perma- [ nent benefits to be gained by the par tjcipants and the undergraduate body as whole"