The Washington times., 1929-10-24
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RECRUITING.
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Virginia, wesleyan. Williams.
Wooster College and Yale.
These lilies in the field repre-
scented just rs per cent OF the co.'s
ieges visited and seven Of them
were Canadian colleges at that.
Openly COndemned
OF the rest, some were openly
condemned and at others q finger
OF scorn was pointed. The charges
uanged from undue influence IN the
obtaining of campus positions 1or
athletes to the actual mainta tatnence
Df these men In school without Yisl-
ble means OF support, and the
@chnola ~ which athletic systems.
FIid not meet, wholly or In part,
with the conmittee's favor We're
named without apparent reluctance
Among their number were some
Of the greatest institutions Of learn
sng in the land Harvard, Columbia,
PfincetOYl MichigaYl, Ohio state
Vanderbilt, Wisconsin,, Northwest.
MRn. Purdue, Minnesota, Notre Dame,
Georgia, Georgia Tech, Alabama /,
California, Southern California ana
Stanford, to name only few. Not
Ill OF them were alleged 70 De
wholly reprehensible il their con-
duct Of athletics. But as to that,
ehe coramittee,A composed Of Dr.
Howard j. Savage, John 4. MCCOY
ern and Dean II. Smiley, NJ. d.
rendered an exhaustive Individual
analysis and let the reader judge
for himself.
individual Cases Cited
TIE meat of the survey is found
a the chapter headed, The Re-
eriting and Subsidizing OF Ath-|
leGSs. Here what are alleged TO
90 Individual instances are quoted
q the following paragraph:
Athletes at a number OF unt-I
rsities have been subsidized under
tle guise Of statesmen of insurance
or bonds columbia, wisconsin,;
clothing store clerks California,
Drake, Ohio State); agents for busi-
ness firms Colgate. University, Of
Iowa, Southern Methodist, WyO-
Yningl: sporting goods statesmen
Dartmouth, Drake, Texas, Untvers-
aty sN washington, Wyomingl; mo-
fion picture employees iSouthern
California;; advertising solicitors
michigan, Missouri, Northwestern,
Pennsylvania; companions OF chill
dren Denver, Haryard); writer's
(Michiganl, and otherwise"
At this point. the report drily
adds that 1t probably hadn't oc-
Cured to the athlete so employed
that ne was Professionalism him
self by trading on his athletic skill
or reputation =
"A GIaring Instance
1t goes considerably further with
Princeton and New York University,
which It charges with wholly or
IN part maintaining athletes al
secondary schools until they are
ready for colleges. And 1t goes
whole hog with Fordham n de-
claring that its scholarships for
athletes are supplied by the Athletic
Association, requiring those favored
70 do no outside work at all.
DR.. Henry S. Pritchett. president
pf the foundation, wrote the preface
TO the report. In this he makes
two major declarations, as follows:
/. The paid coach must go.
q Big gate receipts, the training
table. expensive railroad trips. sub
sidizing and proselyting and the
system Of putting the good athlete
but the weak scholar across the
hurdle Of examinations" must be
eliminated and the inter-college and
lntra-mural type OF athletics sub
stituted.
Heads Are Blamed
These, 1t II declared, are the reme-
dies for what Is termed the dark
est spot upon American collegeI
sports The blames however, Is /
not laid upon college athletics. It /
fs placed against the ultimate au-
fhorities,a = the heads of institutions,
etc. Boards of trustees, II is main
tained. leave the question up to-
presidents: presidents pass 1t along
To athletic managers and 50 on. the
report declares.
The s'abuse..''' as 1t II called, isl
not confined to any particular sec-
tion Of the country, the findings
add. This ranges. it seems, from
s'rare and casual contacts" with
players ITO an intensively organized,
utilize numbers OF agents on and
off the campus"
IN the former group, two OF the
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named, as are Colorado and Wash-
fngtorl state. In the latter and
supposedly more yenial group are
named Michigan, Northwestern,
Oglethrope, southern California and
wisconsin.
Coaches Scored
The coaches at Buclnell. Colgate.
Columbia, Georgia, Georgia Tech,
New Tory University, Oglethorpes
Tennessee, W. and j., ana western
Maryland are expected or permit
% recruiting, II y added, and that
"evidence adduced' indicated that
Michigan. Ohio State. Purdue. South
ern California and Wisconsin went
h for systematic approach toI
scioolboy athletes
The report names Indinna, as hay.5
me an alumnus who hired special
ear to transport prospective athlete
students TO the university.
Occasionally, It softens its recrim.
nations as in referring to Prince.
tor and Stanford as taking d gem
sfne personal interests ii their
thIetes, aside from their ability
Id IN mentioning Amherst. Prince
4 and Tennessee as having ath-
ic authorities. who IN three In.
ances were opposed TO some re-
lting that was alleged to have
under way.
Very Few Escape
mostly, the indictment runs
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