The Washington times., 1930-12-22
RECRUITING IS
EVIL, SAYS
BYRD
Colege Football Should Abolsh Gate Receipts Says Butle
By KIRK MILLER


football Is q, great game as
lt Is being played now, and /
would leave the playing rules
alone, but / believe there
/. should be an age limit at
which boys could enter college
. and still be eligible to compete
In athletics. Such q step
would make for more equit-
able competition. Such q sug-
geStiOn does not apply to in
tramuraI athletics, but to in.
ter.coilegiate sport"
In q nutshell, that is the great
est need of football according to
the views Of Andy Kerr, head man
Of Colgate University football ac-
tivities ane a recognized leader Of
the sport wherever the game Is
played or discussed.
Kerr has a long and noble Ca
Teer in football, being a Dickin-
son graduate and factor in East
ern football. His advice has been
listened to for years with attentive
ears in foathall counsels and his
advice as Vutlined above forms a
valuable chapter in the sympo-
Sium of thought being published
by this newspaper as result OF
QUESTIONABLE sent to $50
coaches of American college foot
ball teams.
Field Goal Not Lost Art
Kerr sees in some sections ten
Uencv to side-track the field goal
and in others he believes that
method of compiling point is still
retained as one Of the football
arts. He likes the huddle and
thinks it a worth while adjunct
the game. He deplores the Junior
college competition crowded in be-
tween prep school and freshmen
years unless such competition be
counted as varsity competition.
Curly Byrd, Maryland coach
and a power in the Southern
Conference, believes it would be
advisable to do something to
give the defense a better bal
ance in comparison to the Of.
tense.
Too, Curly leans toward some
control Of the custom OF re"
cruiting as well as the establish
snent of a higher scholastic
standard. He says:
Generally speaking, the
playing rules are o. X, but
it will be only q short while
before something Will have
to be done to give the de-
fcnse q little better balance
with relation to the Offense.
The greatest improvement In
the eIigibity code would be to
maintain better scholastic
standards and eliminate re-
cruting."
Byrd is strictly in favor Of
the enforced pause in the shift
and during the first year OF
such legislation noted many vio-
Iations of the momentary halt
which were not penalized by the
: officials. He would also let the
defense player run with tum-
bled ball, this being in line with
his inclination to generally even
Iip as to what. the defense may
do, compared with the often
sive. 49,,
No Limit on Numbers
The Maryland mentor cannot
nee the proposition of limiting
the number Of players to a
squad, such as Is advocated by
Charles Moran, of Catawba, in
fact Curly goes so far as to
say this idea is ridiculous.
On the other hand, DR.. AL
Sharpe, director of athletics,
Washington University, st. Louis,
figures there is something to the
idea of limiting the number OF
players allowed in a game.
DR.. Sharpe sees a lock Of en-
phasis in the fine art Of drop"
kicking. He thinks the huddle
requires no more time to get a
play under way than the ordi-
nary method.
AS to eligibility, DR.. Sharpe
says the fault is not with the
rules but with the failure to en-.
force them He believes, with
Andy Kerr, that an age limit is
the answer to more uniform eligi-
bility throughout the game.
Bob zuppke, cartoonist-coach,
who directs the football deStinies
ct the University Of Illinois, only
wants to see one change brought
about in football. He would
move the posts back to the goal
line to encourage the kicking of
field goals. He declares eligibil-
ity, as practiced in the Big Ten,
is the ideal plan and. thinks the
huddle requires no more time to
yet plays off than the old way.
He would have no part in fixing
. limit for the number of players
to a squad. ..-
Tomorrow: Ted Hughes, coach
pf GalIaudet College, Washington.