Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-01-27

ton, was informed that the money
which Coach William ''Lonestar"
Dietz was offering Washington
school boys to enter Purdue Univer-
sity came from $4,000 fund raised
by Lafayette, Ind, business men, he
expressed pleasure that the source of
the money had been smoked out
| Professor Aver, who is representa-
tive OF the Ninth District of the Ma
tional Collegiate Athletic association,
is the man who put in motion the
movement which arrested activities
of Coach Dietz of Purdue and Coach
Dick Hanley of Pendleton, Ore, as
Dietz's Northwest agent, in coaxing
Everett and Sedro Woolley high
school boys and University of Wash
ington freshmen to matriculate at
the Indiana institution.
Dietz's activities proved a boomer
ang, for insteal of building up the
permanent football organization that
he had planned at Purdue, he is out
of a job and SO is his assistant, Han
| ley who was to have become his as
sistant.
The question of where the money
with which Dietz was offering George
| Wilson and other boys salaries of
500 month and transportation
during their actual school work at
Lafayette high and Purdue was to
come from, was answered when bust
ness men of Lafayette Confessed"
Evidently tired of having losing
team and seeing in Dietz stepping
stone to a big Ten" conference
championship, the Lafayette bust
ness men conducted a silent cam
paign and with the aid of the alumni
raised the $4,000 with which Dietz
was to offer scholarships" to prom
Using football men.
Football men in Seattle who have
Dietz has done no more than many
another coach in the four sections of
the country, but that his work in
going about it might be fittingly de-
scribed as coarse" Had Bill con-
fined his activities to one or two men
instead of essaying a wholesale raid,
he might have gotten away with it.
The result of the Dietz expose
means that the Northwest will be
reasonably safe in the future from
PROSECUTING by eastern football
coaches.
Everett Stars Deny Offers
Scoop Carlson, Everett high
school football player, says that
there was nothing reprehensible in
the negotiations he held with Purdue
representatives concerning attend
ance in that school Carlson says
that Dick Hanley, while in Everett,
made a proposal to him, saying he
could obtain place for him at SIS
a month if he went to Purdue, but
making it clear that if any railway
fare were advinced it would have to
| be repaid. Carlson told Everett
friends that he had already decided
to attend the University of Washing
ton but he heard the proposal, talked
it over with his father, and turned it
down. Harold Britt and Walter
| Daily deny they were approached by
either Hanley or Dietz with a Purdue
proposal.
Three of the Everett boys have
sent communications to the sports
editor of the Seattle Times, asking
that their side of the case be given
to the public Carlson's letter fol-
lows:
Regarding the item in your paper
in which my name was connected,
with others, as having been APP
preached by r. e. Hanley, who was
alleged to have made certain offers
to me in order to have me attend
Purdue University, l desire to state
that at no time was I offered flat
salary, but was told that in all prob
ability I would be able to get posi-
ton with some firm paying at least
SIS a month.
1T was also made distinctly clear
that, should it be necessary to adj
vance any more to me with which to
pay transportation. | should have to
repay the same.
81 never accepted this arrange
ment in any manner, as I had decid- |
ed to enter one of the Coast colleges |
"Glenn e. Carlson"
Britt and Daily's communication
was brief 1t follows:
I'm regard TO the item in the pa
per a few days ago in reference to 60
ing to Purdue University, We wish to
state that neither of us was APP
preached by either Mr.. Hanley or Mr..
Dietz in regard to entering school /
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