The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-27
TALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

blame some Of the young men IN
college for insisting on pay checks
before they go on the field TO die
for dear old Backwash. I still be-
Iieve that in the main the college
game is pretty clean and Is con-
Quoted on strictly ethical ana
amateur basis.
But there are evidences here and there
of a frank commercial spirit where the
,,ams are studiousIy built up and the
schedules devised with view to entieins
The cjquant greenbaeks.
II
am disposed to agree Win Bl4i sd ~ Bsli
the Princeton coaen. tn nd ! ais dollar lure,
though Roper's stand is not Nholly III,
sistent since his career as Solege, 20 -
shows that he has not been impeIF'ou' ~
the dollar lure himself
Nevertheless there appears to DC II"
healthy or sane reason for the existence
Of night football in colleges and II inc
nigbt games are not arranged for the pur-
nose Of attracting larger crowds ana mus
increasing the college treasury, just what
is the thought behind them?
TT Is entirely logical that some OF
the Young men who play college
football should be practical enough
to demand certain compensation
for their participation IN tnese
monetary spectacles. Certainly when
= college decides to commerciallze It's
Games there should be no surprise
or objection if the athletes entering
tho spirit of the policy, decided 10
commercialize themselves. Manifest
w no college should. Five members
~ the freshman team at George
washinpton have been ousted, be
cause thew demanded money LOT
their services, in addition to tuiVlon
and board.
~. =, The Youngsters involved said the
acfion was caused by the beheI LnaV az ae
soon as the football season e it4vG
lqi1l .ist ~ 1vas going to happen he added.
we were determined to PICK up 5 sg ne
spending money between no" an"
ccmber." -
This would seem to indicate that the
c.orve Washington freshmen read inc
rewspapers and are cOnversant with inc
Unemployment situation.
II ,
out in Missouri another Lovely ,ritb
..snSa1 is simmering in the Big ok VIII VIII
s Gauoes 70 ~ Tecrniting PROSECUTING ana
eompetitive bidding for players eoioiiNs
the testimony.
OF particular interest to the sloe-
liner are the monthly salaries
and bonuses which allegedIy hgureo
in such transactions. Reading the
news dispatches. one gets the notion
that a Young man with football skill
can do right we'll for himself out
that way.
Young Ross Marshall presents an AMI
davit charging that he was offered SSoO
in cash by an aIumnus if he would enron
az University of Missouri.
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member Of the back field Oh Inc the k tSat
saS state Agricultural colege lesI 1itH frro
he is paid SIS a month by wealtny farm Ia
gunner The money Is in the FORM o. 81, q
petainer After graduation the back heid
man is to manage the Iarh'
Resides establishing a salary scale Tor
h,cL 0eld men in the Big six this incident
helms 10 show how difficult it must be to
get good farm mdHdBtASs ANh"'%tS - "
chatter about farm relief was not an eX-
aggeration.
Incidentally. these figures indicate that ina.
the footballers get along better hnanclally
in tbe west than in the cast. year ago,
The Carnegie Foundation shoppers, mace
nuhHc their survey of college athleucs,
one Of the eastern colleges was SHOWN
to be paving its half backs $40 MONTH
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ONE of these days the colleges
~ may be compelled in self-de-
tense to adopt a program OF open
professionalism openly arrived at.
Fantastical as it may sound, such
program would at least have the
merits of simple honesty, as opposed
to the hypocrisy that exists in some
academic circles.
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An inevitable salubriOuss effect would DC
the elimination of suspicion. strife ana
subterfuge. And besides the present
arrangement is economically cock-eyed'
Uhv should a half back in Missouri be
worth SIS month and half back In
New York state only SO. At the very
least. the situation seems to call for action
nv the American Federation OF Labor