New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Professionalism and Def
ciencies in Studies Take
Sport Leaders OFF Teams
By Raw Mccarthy

The bane of the college students life
the midyear exams-has raised more
havoc in the athletic ranks at the vari-
Gus institutions this year than ever
before, it seems. Reports are coming
in thick and fast of star athletes pack
ing and leaving for the factory. Woe
to the faculties! Were it not for them
college would be the downest kind of
couch, as soft things go.
However, exams are not the only
things depicting the ranks of the ath-
letes. Profes ssionalism, business calls
and sundry other reasons have cropped
up IN greater abundance during the cur
rent year to cut down the eligibles for
the various varsity teams. The rosy hue
that was seen on the horizon in the
athletic world for many of the insti-
tutlons few months ago has turned
to blue Of the deepest dye
The University of Pennsylvania ap-
pears at this stage to be the heavies st
sufferer. Practically it's whole eleven
and several substitutes, most of whom
were eligible for next season, have
slipped out into the struggle of the
world. The Miller brothers-Heine and
Ray-Brunner, Pearce, Little, Maynard
and Bell and several others were
among those who have wended their
way from the temple of learning. Most
of these departed after being charged
with profes essionalism. Exams got the
others
NIiddies Ruled Ineligible
Everything was serene for a few
weeks, when a blast from the Naval
Academy announced the sad news to
followers of the Middies that four-foot-
ball players had succumbed to the grind
of the classroom.
Lehlgh now pops up with loud wall
No less than dozen good athletes have
felt the knife welded by the faculty,
Included among these are Smendinger
star all-round athlete; Kennedy, bas-
ketball player; Carlson, Otto Kopf
brother of Larry Kopf, of the cham
pion Cincinnati Reds; Henzelman and
! others.
Three West Pointers-Dab bas-
ketball star; Ordway and Patterson
have changed back to civies because of
exams.
Colgate is parting with its captain
and star halfback. Laird. He became
ineligible for further athletic compe-
tltlon by lis participation in pro
fesslonal football game. Without the
glamour of athletics to hold him to his
studies the youth decided to cut loose
iulilDia is Demoanlng the departure
or Eddie Quigley. star football and
baseball player. Buck ONeill, the new
coach, was counting heavily on Quiglev
Tor next falls eleven.
Lafayette elected Dumoe captain of
ITS eleven for next fall and immediately
alter found out he couldn't be used anv
more. Dumoe had been tempted by the
hlthy lucre-too bad, too bad. jim
Braden, of Yale, is out Of athletics at
Yale and new fullback for next wears
team Will have to be dug up somewhere
injuries hastened Braden's resolve
Harvard is already busy figuring on
now 1T can replace the shifty Eddie
Easey, halfback par excellence 1t was
tnought Casey might remain at fair
harvard tor another year, but Natick
Eddie took his war degree and has
gone out to get that there kale"
Cornell got tough break in the
death of Taylor. star tackle on the
football team. Beers, former Dart
mouth football guard, has decided to
view college life from the Colgate
angle, so that in this case it is a loss
plus a gain, with the Hamilton insti-
tuIion on the winning side.
Dartmouth also loses "Cuddy" Mur-
phy, who not only was a star on the
grldiron but was the Green's chief d.
pendency in the box He has sipned
with the Boston Red Sox.
There are others and undoubtea1,,
there Will be more when the June cron
OF exams arrive. Yea, verify, the first
thousand years in the classrooms ~aro
the hardest.