The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-02-03
CLAIMS MAJORITY
OF COLLEGE TEAMS
COMPOSED OF PROS
Famous Coaches Involved
In Statements Credited
To Grover Hoover.


CHICAGO. Feb. . - The young
man who tossed the can Of INT
ir the Balkans In 1914 and messed
UP the greater part Of the world
has little, II anything, on one
Grover Hoover. who sells calico and
coaches professional football In the
village or Tayloyville. III.
The little game he staged at 1ay-
lorvilie on November ~. IN which
his team was composed Of univer-
sity Of Iiiinois piayeSs. and cariin-
Vile, the enemy. Of Notre Dame
stars. now threatens TO shake the
|seismographs Of purity Of the
drums OF college athletics
Hoover said that II the University
Of Illinois suspended the players,
he would blow up the entire con-
ference with q few side attacks on
Eastern and Far Western colleges.
He insisted that football coaches an
over the country. and faculty com
mittees knew their men were pro-
fessionais. and that. far from
frowning, they welcomed the boys
In and helped them keep their
cecret
Illinois kicked the nine out
Hoover has kept his promise. and
the husky denials from near and
far are sweeping the prairies Ike
a Medicine Bow blizzard.
He says:
That any big ten conference sth-
Iete found guilty needn't cry for
"washington and Jeherson. Col
gate. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and
many other Eastern colleges will
let them play"
Rseh,e NeeA.'t weep.
That Coach Knute Rockne, of
Notre Dame, needn't shed any croc-
odile tears about losing his world
beating football team He says
Rockne knew all about the game
two days after Il was played sno
'kidded the boys for getting
trimmed"
That the athletic doings of Au-
brey Devine. ail-American quarter
back, and Gordon Locke. an-West-
ern fuIIbadk. need q little sxami-
nation with the naked eye.
That Ohio state stole Hoge ano
Noel Workman away from Coach
Yost OF Michigan and West VIZ
ginia.
That Stage. OF Chicago Uniyer-
sity, instead Of -deploring the stu
alton" and al the same time Eath'
ering his clan under his ancient
sabardine, should get busy and md
out how many Of them are pro-
fessionals.
That one Of the stars OF the Car
IinvilIe team was q University OF
Wisconsin husky.
That IS per cent OF colleG base
ball players at Illinois and other
10
| the coaches know It.
II don't want to get the boys in
bad" he said. i just don't like
the way some of the coaches act
when they knew IL all the time"
Knute Rockne. the Notre Dame
coach. breathed FIRE when Hoover's
charges were brought 70 him
The man must be crazy" he
said. Il will sue him for libel"
Father william Carey. athletic
director of Notre Dame, is a state
ment declared that -the future Of
college athletics 10 at stake" He
added that he was meeting with
his board to initiate measures that
will insure co-operation of other
colleges to halt professionalism.
we are now considering meas
U.S. ~ eNop IN COA-
lege athletics" he said 7 wrote
to seventy colleges last December
on this subject, but there was not
q great deal OF interest manifested
at that time. Now, we feel sure,
there will be decided interest"
The scandal caused by the sus-
pension of seventeen of the best
known college football players in
the West has now spread TO the
Pacific Coast. where Irving Too
mey, star University of California
back, voluntarily admitted his pro-
fessionslism today. Don white.
Purdue, star point scorer Of Big
Ten basketball. has also confessed.
University of Iowa faculty mem
bers examined Aubrey Devine and
Gordon Locke, mentioned In
Hoover's charges. and announced
these men are stainless.
There will be a raft of denisls.
but the dust hasn't even stirred
yet" said Hoover. wait until the
Eastern colleges start invcstieat-
ing"