Evening star., 1930-12-13
GAME IN MIDWEST
NOW FREE OF EVIL
No 0veremphasis Seen by
Conference.-The Slate
for Next Fall.
BY FRANCIS .. POWERS.

@HICAGO. December 13.
III The Western Conference
~ is not at all worried about
the future of foot ball as
it will be played in the Big Ten.
The faculty fathers, who guide
conference athletics with an ul-
ira conservative hand, find little
evidence that the game is over
emphasized in the Big Ten; prose-
lyting has been eradicated and q
few capacity crowds per season
do not disturb their sense Of
proportion.
Action Of individual colleges in aban-
doning foot ball and rumors Of disturb
| ances IN other sections were not even
discussed at the annual conference
| meeting. George HUH, the veteran ath-
| letic director of Illinois, rather well
expressed the sentiment of the Big Ten,
when he said: 1T Is easier to visulize
the so-called evils Of intercollegiate
foot ball after losing season."
The conference as q unit win play
one of the most dificult schedules in It's
usual championship games, Big Ten
elevens are scheduled for is intersec-
tional contests and every sector of the
game Is represented on the Conference
calendar.
All Teams Busy.
Northwestern will meet NebrAaEA
from the Missouri Valley and University
of California, Los Angeles, from the Pa
/ HifiR
Arkansas; Michigan opens q series with
Princeton and Ohio engages Navy and
| Vanderbilt. Wisconsin will play Ala
bama Poly and Pennsylvania, while
Purdue starts gridiron relations with
Carnegie Tech.
Minnesota has game with Stanford
and probably date with Vanderbilt.
Iowa goes South to meet the Texas Ag-
| gies and plays Pittsburgh at Iowa City.
Dame and those games further the lat
itude of Conference comfy. Illinois
drew six Conference games for 1891, 90
Bob Zuppke is out Of the interSectional
program for the season.
Foot ball In the Big Ten has the very
definite province OF providing the hnar-
cial SinewS necessary to carry on the
mass athletic program for which re-
formers continually are clamoring.
Every member Of the Big Ten either Is
paying of q debt on some athletic
structure or launching a building pro-
gram and foot ball has TO pay the prin-
cipal and interest.
It was foot ball that built the great
est collegiate athletic plant in the
world at Michigan. Ohio State with its
stadium free of all Indebtedness Is
starting q program that calls for both
mems and women's gymnasiums, a
natatorium, physical education building
and golf course. Illinois soon will start
work on an ice rink; Wisconsin dedi-
Gates magnificent new field house on
December 16; Chicago soon will COM
mence the construction Of b field house;
Minnesota must build swimming pool
and Purdue. Is sadly in need OF a fieid
house. Foot ball receipts must pay tor
every brick and trowel Of mortar.
Taxpayers Don't Worry.
| Eight members of the Western Con-
ference are State institutions and sup
ported in part by the taxpayers. Pecui-
larly enough, Mid-Western taxpayers
seem to attach q lot more Importance
to intercollegiate foot ball and other
| sports than they do to any and all re-
ports by the Carnegie Foundation. The
writer in 10 years of travel around the
Big Ten has heard few protests against
foot ball from the people who help keep
the big State schools in motion.
| At the meeting Of the faculty COM
mittee the conference renewed its stand
| against poSt-Season games or games
played on other than college gridirons.
In granting Northwestern permission
to play Notre Dame for charity on Sol
dier Field, here, next Fall the Big Ten
made it Definite that conference
elevens were neither for hire nor ex-
htbition and that any request for post
season games would be roughly refused.