New Britain herald., 1929-12-05
F. W. Nicholson Says Yale Is No Better Than Har- vard-N. l. A. A. to Study Problem on Janu- ary 1 at New York Meet ing-Wa ants Clean-Cp.

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 Although inc mucb-diacussed Carnegie Foundation report on lh" recruiting and subsidizing ot college athletes in particular and collcg. athletics in general, terms Yale among the Iily-whitr' colleges m this regard and places Harvard or the guilty list, no onc. not even Yale men, will claim that there IS any difference between Yale and Harvard in their attitude towards this subject" was the claim of Dean Frank Walker Nicholson of Wesley an university before the New Britain Rotary club at the weekly luncheon at the Burritt hotel today.
 Dean Nicholson. chosen by the speakers committee to give the weekly address to the club, proved to be the most interesting speaker the club has had in some time. He explained that. although he was not a college athlete in any sense except probably good enough while stn- dent at Harvard university to make the "All America cricket team," he has been secretary of the National Intercollegiate Athletic association for the past 9 years or since it's or ganization and he is in close toucH with the situation as presented through the Carnegie report.
 Coach George M. Cassidy of the championship New Britain higH school football team was a guest at the meeting.
 Dean Nicholson, adopting for his subject intercollegiate Athletics. ' Gissectcd the Carnegie report briefly and gave his views OH the solution of the difficulties and abuses throughout the colleges of the coun- try as put forth in the report.
 He stated that on January 1. 1880, the National Intercollegiate Athletic association would meet in New York city and it was hoped that a number of college presidents would be in at tendance. The report will be taken mp at that time and a solution of the problem will be discussed.
 In his opinion. Dean Nicholson stated, the solution rests solely with the college presidents. These men have the absolute control of the sit nation in their hands, he said, and through them, amateur sport can be made entirely amateur and all taint of professionalism will disappear. Amateurs Listed a> Pros in Disguise
 Taking the report, chapter by chapter, Dean Nicholson stated that it dealt for the most part with the suspicion that college athletics which are supposed 10 be purely amateur are really professional in disguise.
 Amateur sport" the dean said, is the only clean, decent, gentle manly way of playing. In nut shell amateurism is simply sports for tho sake of sport and not for the lloEey involved il it. The fact that this subsidizing of athletes is done nder cover. in fact, that all protes- s'onalism in athletics in colleges is Cone in the dark. proves that thcr" iy something rotten about it. Then, there i3 tie UnplcaSantrcSs of ore college or a group Of colleges start ing investigations against each other because of the i'll feeling and counter charges that result"
 He said that four years ago, he approached the officials of the Car ragie Foundation and" asked them D make q thorough and impartial investigation of the charges which ,-ere then being heard on all sides J-c said that the Foundation was originally organized 10 care for in. 'lgnant college professors but that 5 activities had becom" so wide in their scope that it was inc on" ;gcncy through which this investi- ration could be made scientifically and thoroughly.
 Sifted Out Medical school
 He cited the investigation launched and carried through by the CarncSje Foundation of the so-callcd medical colleges about the country atteI which several Of them went out oi ,Nistencc. as one of the outstanding benefits oCCasiOnad by tn" Eounda ton. He said that l.r. Savage and four assistants had worked on tHC athletic report for three years. Ii, said that tho committee mcmbeIs vent to each college and lived thcr" first getting tla permission of th' president to follow through witt their investigation Only two co,. logn presidents refused them thi' permission. He said that the re- port vas absolutely impartial ant fair because tho foundation was tied ID with no c0licG" or group Of col Jo@os and the officials cared not "hc oy how th, ycaulta of their inycstiga. tons hjt
 IIo sail rho n'st day after tb, newspapers had rad inc prclinin'nH publication of he report. that to, IGch emphasis was placed on . small part O. 'b" report vhit; named @G coll gcs ont Of inc 100 Q; more visited in which tho rcpor stated mo ,yidcncc of students bein- paid for tnor athletic ability wI' found at the time of the invcstiga tion."
 The newspapers at once adopted
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