Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-23
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Harvard Committee
Reports Findings on
Athletic Regulation

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. ZZ.--NAfJ-
Disapproval Of intersectional cham
pionships and post-season games, be
lief that coaching ultimately should
|! versity and that coaching salaries
should be reduced to minimum, ap'
prevail OF intercollegiate athletic
agreements and the belief that treat
ment of professionalism in college
athletics by inhexible rules is impossi-
BILE, were among the opinions express
ed in the report of the Harvard Col
lege committee on the regulation of
athletic sports published today in the
Harvard College Alumni Bulletin.
Fundamentally, the aim or your
committee is to encourage the students
to take part in athletics and the meas
ure of success is the number OF par
Elephants" the report said. .4- .-
intercollegiate contests must re-
main a means to this end and inter
collegiate victories must be a conse-
ouence Of its success and not its pri-
mary purpose.
Your committee appreciates the
risk of excess and declares Its policy
to keep the number Of intercollegiate
contests within reason. They should
not be inaugurated or maintained for
the entertainment of the public or the
graduates. Although football games
have been criticized in this respect
your committee believes that they do
not unduly interfere with the aca-
demic part of the students education
However, intercollegiate contests
have tendency to expand and multi
ply into form which your COMMITTEES
tional championships and post-seasor
games. These are not necessary to
sustain an interest in the sport and the
motives are usually not rally athletic.
The policy of your committee. is to
discourage such contests" sss&fS ,:
Commenting on the agreement be-
tween Harvard, Yale and Princeton to
limit their football coaching salaries,
the report said: your committee
would like to restrict all coaching for
every intercollegiate sport to the grad
yates of the university and would like
ultimately to reduce the salaries to
minimum"
In the matter of further and more
radical agreements with Yale and
Princeton. the committee expressed its
belief and hope that these three uni
versities may set up a standard which
will improve all college athletics as
well as athletics in preparatory
The report called attention to two
types of professionalism in intercol-
1egiate athletics (which must be
watched" The first, and what the
committee believed the worst" type,
was described as the athlete who Is
supported or subsidized, either directly
or indirectly, by someone interested
in the success Of his team. The grad
uate who thus procures athletes for
his college. prostitutes the sport and
undermines the pernanence of academ-
ic athletics" the report declared.
The other type was cited as THE
man who is able to earn his way
through college and thus secure his
education. by employment in one way
or another as an athlete"
In either case. the committee report
ed, there is question OF degree in
which the cases midway between the
outright professionalism and the un-
doubted afateur are exceedingly diffi-
cult of determination