Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-20
WOULD FIND DOORS
CLOSED AS ROAMER
Conference AffiIiation Is Vital
to JayhaWkerS, Declares
Critic.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n lew YORK, November 90
Nj Foot ball in the Missouri
Y Valley has never been so
interesting politically, even
granting that from an athletic
standpoint the standard of per-
Torrance has been pretty gener-
ally below par.
The Kansas case has been the
high light, with such minor in
cidentS as Oklahoma A. e. M.
getting high hat and talking of
deserving the Missouri Valley Con-
ference and seeking company OF
higher caliber, and NebraSka's
upset defeat of the Jaywalkers
and Missouris tie with the Husk-
ers, forming a lurid background.
The end OF the Kansas matter is, Of
course, not yet. At present the burden
OF proof seems to rest upon the Big Six
Conference, inasmuch as Kansas In eff
feet has announced she is going to
stand pat upon her present system OF
recruiting and providing for the sup
port of athletes.
Conferences Help.
While the viewpoint of an outsider
may be erroneous, 1t does seem TO the
writer as though Kansas, If she persists
In this contumacious attitude, win be
digging for herself deep grave.
One who has not been In the Md
lands and studied conditions there can
have no idea how essential these con-
ference organizations are TO the great
universities there.
Nebraska, a much larger institution
than Kansas and with not a cloud over
it, voluntarily Withdrew from the old
Valley Conference In 1918, believing It
was wasting its time on its athletically
inferior associates.
Two years later the Corn Huskers
were glad to get back in spite OF the
fact that they had played games with
Michigan, Minnesota. Notre Dame, Ore
gon and washington State. For one
thing, too much time was involved IN
travel and this the Nebraska faculty
will not tolerate.
In track and basket bali and base
ball the going was even tougher, all OF
them being sports that languish as TO
gate receipts unless they are conducted
in q conference.
Would Be Ostracized.
Were Kansas to quit the Big Six, or
be thrown out, she would ind Western
Conference doors closed to her, the Big
Ten rules being similar to those Of the
Big Six Independent colleges Of the
better class also could not afford 70
meet kansas, while the showing Of the
Jayhawkers in the East against the
| weak Penn team would hardly make
| them interesting as opponents Tor East
| ern institutions shopping about for gate
receipt attractions. In track Kansas
would be lost; also IN basket pall, with
It's 20-game schedule and with interest
In the sport depending solely upon a
conference championship campaign.
How vitality the East needs confer
ence such as those west Of the Ale
ghaniesl Lots Of things are done, many
things happen In this section which are
offensive TO those who hold brief Tor
decent conditions In intercollegiate
snort. And they are conditions which
could not exist In the face Of o STRONG
association centrally organized. The I.
@. A. A. A. A. is in position where II
could employ power and be very et-
fective. Ever so often some gesture IS
made indicating a strong stand by this
body, but in the end 1t results in Moth
ing save keeping out undesirables UNI
versities already members are left TO
carry on their own affairs in their own
way.
AS a consequence membership in the
I. C. A. A. A. A. is by no means to be
accepted as badge OF athletic purity.