Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-01
WOULD ELIMINATE
COIN FROM SPORT
Dr.. Day, Union College, Also
Would Remove "HighIy
Paid Coaches"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, January 1.-E1imi-
IN nation of gate receipts and
highly paid seasonal coaches"
and the organization Of new
league or conference in which such in
novations as these could be put into
practice were proposed today by Presi-
dent Frank Parker Day of Union Col
lege in an address prepared for delivery
before the National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
Speaking on 1.-THE Challenge Of the
Carnegie Report" DR.. Day announced
himself glad to negotiate with nearby
colleges of good academic standing and
similar athletic strength for the forma-
ton of such league" He mentioned
of New York State and New England
institutions williams, Amherst, Wes-
leyan, Hamilton, Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Institute and Union.
Has Waited in Vain.
ct have been hoping for some years, ="
said DR.. Day, that the big and we'll
established universities in the East, like
Harvard, Yale and Princeton, would
lead the way out of this athletic maze
in which we are now wandering.
There seems to be no sign Of this,
however, and 1t was with a sinking heart
that I recently read in the paper that
the great University of Columbia had
engaged an $4,000 coach to train her
squad Of foot ball players"
DR.. Day predicted that II such truly
amateur leagues" as he proposed could
be formed among tho small colleges
named and others elsewhere much
good in the way of example might
come from it for the great UNIVERSE
ties
I'VE have in America habit Of capt.
talizing all our fine sentiments. In
this vast athletic venture in which we
are engaged we have capitalized the
spirit of young men to make q vast
show for the public"
Drinking Is Criticized.
The Union College head took occa-
sion to criticize drinking, betting and
ungentlemanly behavior at one foot
ball game which he attended, as well
as to protest at what he regarded as
"vulgarity and degradation" in radio
accounts Of gridtron contests.
1T is no good shouldering the blame
upon coaches or graduate managers"
he declared. I'VE, the administrators
Of colleges. must take the burden upon
our own shoulders.
Here Is what we might attempt:
First, to have no gate fee to our games
and to admit by invitation; second, to
do away with high-priced seasonal
coaches; third, to ban all scouting, sub
Stdizing, PROSECUTING, and see to It
strictly in our own circle that no under
graduate in college or university receive
material gain and is appointed to no
position simply because he is an athlete
on a team"
Asserting that instead of crowd of
onlookers, we need crowds of players"
DR.. Day said "a good many undergradu-
ates in colleges feel that it Is unjust
that they should be taxed yearly in
leteS should be trained by highly paid
coach to meet the highly selected ath-
letes OF some other college"
Should Stay in Class.
Filing protest against small colleges
opposing large universities in athletics
and attributing such meetings to the
desire of the small institutions for fat
guarantees, he pointed out that Gin
other sporting matters we do not pro-
coed in this way, and match a famous
heavyweight against an almost I'M
known lightweight"
Amateur coaching among the colleges
of the league he suggested was adVo-
Gated.
II grant you that our teams would
not be so good under this system Of
amateur coaching" he said, but I do
not think that matters very much, al
though In America we have q burning
desire to excel in athletics"