The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-07
TALKING
IT OVER
BIZ JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. Tt begins
~ to look as If the dear old
colleges don't want to play with the
boys in the bread line. Except for
a few scattered exceptions with
New York university setting the
pace. All of them have turned up
a finely chisled academic beezer TO
the vulgar suggestions that they
get together in a series Of big time
st-season games and turn the re-
ceipts over to the national unem-
ployment fund.
Thus a sound. practical opportunity TO
raise about $780, 900 to help alleviate a
labor crisis seems destined to wind up
back Of the eight ball with no more con-
yincInx 81 logical explanation than that
there Is a precedent against after-Seheduie
games.
We'll. IL the educators fee that way
59 sss ss ~ sont the In mats1s Of
charity either YOU respond with an In
5a nssy Ss 81. hManest s a aS net does
not dwell among the robed leaders OF
undergraduate thought.
ITO many of us this unyielding
i indifference on the part OF the
colleges is both Incredible and dis
appointing. and it is going to be
difficult to escape the suspicion
that student football is strictly
house business conducted along the
lines Of a closed corporation.
In short. Il appears that 1t is all riKht
10 charge admission 10 these games IS
lour a. the returns 20 TO the athletic
treasures but on any other basis 1t be-
comes intolerabIe.
In supporting 2 principle founded on
precedent the colleges have olsplssyeo q
lar opinion to the contrary. that Is not
yhoIly without admiration but IN oolnk
50 thew have created DON'T as 70 tb en-
sthietic programs that Win not be quickly
-orgotten.
In view OF what has developed,
there Is nothing left TO do but dis
miss the matter completely and
write in the records that in ma
tionaI emergency the colleges OF
the country were weighed and
found wanting.
NEVERTHELESS this depart
IN ment's enthusiasm for college
football remains unchanged. VIII
always believe that every young man
on every football squad in the land
would have gleefully jumped at the
chance to play in the suggested
charity games 1t would be out
rageously unfair to include them IN
the general indictment of narrow
nnindedness and selfishness against
the whole college scheme.
The vale Daily News, perhaps the most
alert and vibrant Of all campus publica-
tlors. undoubtedly expressed the under
graduate thought on the subject when 1t
called upon the faculty editorialIy to drop
a. studied aIoofness and send the varsity
mt 70 pIay any team anywhere for the
iobless cause.
This shows very clearly how the young
sters feel about 1t. and the amazing tn 1ns
rs nor mat s sense 1 Of values in spite Of their
constant contacts with the nonrehllanle
minds of the class room.
-
What shaped up as the most at
tracaive charity game OF all
Army and Navy-Seems doomed to
failure. too. You can charge this
to Washington politics. An army
faction is pulling one way and
navy faction another. Not wish
ing to offend either the cautious
President Hoover, II appears, is
determined to sit back in his
chair and do nothing with stir
ring nonpartisan earnestneSS.
And In the meantime there is no
game the Cadets and the Middies
would rather play.
n
The deeper you get into this the
more obvious it becomes that stu
dent football is a sport in which the
students do nothing but carry out
orders, accumulate numerous in
juries and build up athletic treas
uries.
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