Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-05
COLLEGE ATHLETICS FACE
BIG SHAKE-UP IN WEST
Little Game Of Football Staged
at Taylorvillc, ILL.,, Starts
Rumpus.
COACH KEEPS HIS PROMISE
Makes Widespread Charges OF Pro-
fcSSionnlism Against Players In En-
tire Conference and Also Takes Slup
mt the East.
Hy Alexander T.. Jones'.

CHICAGO. Feb. 4.---Thc young man
who tossed the can of T. y. Il. in the
Balkans in 1914 and messed up the
If anything. on one Grover Hoover,
who sells calico and coaches profess
sional football in the village Of
Taylorville, Ill.
The little game he staged at
Taylorvillc on November %. in which
his team was composed OF University
OF Illinois players, and Carlinville, the
enemy. OF Notre Dame stars. now
threatens to shake the scismoSraphs
of purity off the drums of college
athletics.
Hoover Keeps Promise.
Hoover said that if the University
of Illinois suspended the nine players
he would blow up the entire confer
cncc, with a few side attacks on
Eastern and Far Western colleges.
He insisted that football coaches all
mittccS, knew their men were profess
sionals and that. far from frowninE,
they welcomed the boys in and helped
them keep their secret.
Illinois kicked the, nine out.
the husky denials from near and far
are sweeping the prairies like 4
Medicine Bow blizzard.
he says:
That any big ten conference athlete
found guilty needn't cry. for Wash
ington and Jefferson. Colgate. SYRIA
cusc. Pittsburgh and many other
Eastern colleges will let them play.
They're filed up"
That Coach Knute Rockne, OF Notrc
Dame. needn't shed any crocodile
tears about losing his world beating
FOOTBALL team. He says Rockne knew
all about the game two DAYS after II
~ "a thI l. II I.AI No f,r
getting trimmed"
Makes Many ChnrEcs.
That the athletic doings OF Aubrey
Dcvine, all-AmeriCan quarter back,
and Gordon Locke. all-westcrn full
back, need little examination with
the naked eye.
That Ohio State stole Hogc and
Noel Workman away from Coach
iost. OF Michigan and West Virginia.
That Alon2o \. Stage. of Chicago
University. instead of 'deploring the
situation" and at tho same time gath
erinE his clan under his ancient CAB
ardine. get busy and find out how
many OF them are professionals.
That one of the stars OF the Carlin-
VILE team was II University OF Wis
consin huskey.
That % per cent OF the college base
ball players ut Illinois and other
schools are professionals and that the
coaches know il.
II don't want 10 get the boys In
bad" he said. II just don't like the
way some OF the coaches act when
they knew II all the time" he said.
knute Rocknc. the Notre Dame
coach. brcathcd fire when Hooevr's
charges were brought to him.
The man must be crazy" he said.
II will sue him for libel"
Father William Carey, athletic di-
rector OF Notrc Dame. In Il statement
10 the United News. declared that the
"future OF college athletics is at
stake" and he added that he was
meeting with his board TO initiate
measures that Will insure co-opera-
ton OF other colleges to halt profess
sionalism.
Scandal Spreads To ConAt.
we are now considering measures
to stop professionalism in college
athletics" he said. II wrote TO
seventy colleges last December on
this subject. but there was not {,
great deal OF interest manifested at
that time. Now. we feel sure. there
VIII be decided interest"
The scandal caused by the suspen-
sions of seventeen OF the bcst-known
college football players in the West
has now spread to the Pacific Coast
whcr" Irving Toomcy. star University
OF California back, Voluntarily nd :
mittcd his Professionalism today. Don
| White. Purdue, star point scorer OF
I big ten BASKETBALL. also has confessed
| University OF Iowa faculty members
| examined Aubrey Devine and Gordon
| Locke. mentioned in Hoover
! charges. and announced these men
arc stainless.
There VIII he raft Of denials
, but the dust hasn't even stirred yet
/ said Hoover. Wait until Eastern
! colleges start Investigating"