Evening star., 1931-12-16
GRID PLAYERS PAY
DENIED BY LITTLE.
Columbia U. Salary Charge
Held FaIse-Dean Unable
to Find Evidence.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December l6.-Colum-
oia University leaders, including Head
Coach Lou Little, came forth quickly
To-Day with denials of the charges, pub
hshed In the New York World-Tele-
eram' that evidence of secret payments
10 loot ball players had been uncov-
ereo by secret investigating commit
tee.
III Is an outrageous lie Little de-
ciared' after reading the story, which
Went INTO details of alleged inside"
oeailngs 10 promote Columbia foot ball
College, declared he had been unable,
alIer an investigation, to find basis for
the charges, and then added: Il don't
WanC 10 be mixed up in anything so
rotten as this"
Editor Denies Report.
Feed Harris, editor of the Spectator,
undergraduate paper, and a member of
1rle secret committee said by the World
ieleeram 10 have undertaken the in
eees.leatlon; denied any knowledge of it.
opeotator mas been conducting a series
pau euieollai attacks upon college foot
pail, based largely on the unusual num-
Der OF deaths reported this wear
NacomS, the secret society which aI-
legedly made the report. met last nipht
1t was learned.
report on the athletic situation was
SAID 10 have been drawn up at the
meeting Tor presentation to Dean
hawkes.; but the dean today had not
received 1t. --''
Daniel Mccarthy, editor of the Co.
lumola Alumni News, classed the
charges as obviously absurd"
Loans Given Poor Students
Columbia loaned over 100000 this
year to needy students" Mccarthy
SAID. Doubtless some athletes were So
AIDED as there is no discrimination
against student merely because he
happens to be foot bali PLAYER
Inc New York World Telegram said
To-Day that evidence of secret payments
to Columbia foot ball players has been
uncovered by a committee investigating
Ihe unlVefSltys athletic administration.
Inc committee, composed of men,
bers OF the Nacoms Society, a secret
organization of seniors and ahnmni
also has discovered the World-Tele
gram said. that some athletes engage
in professional sports during the sum
mer months with the knowledge OF
Columbia coaches.
Among the discoveries reported was
one that foot ball star on head Coach
Lou Littles eleven had been paid a
S4OO yearly scholarship by the Colum-
bia University Club and was supplied
with other money by "a friend of Co.
lumbia"
The same friend" the investigators
charged, had used his influence to OBJ
tain promotion for a member of the
players family and had made loans"
TO the family with such frequency that
it was charged they were enabled to
purchase an automobile.
The Nacoms Society Committee Is
made up of c. Leroy Hendrickson,
chairman: Robert Watt. former gradu-
ate manager of athletics. Hugh
Gardner, varsity crew man in 1929 and
member of the student council while in
college, Gavin MacBain, class of 80
present secretary of the Student Board
and crew man, and Reed Harris, 80.
eoltor OF the Spectator, student publ
cation, whose recent charges against
loot ball led to the investigation.
Inc possibility Of the Investigation
reaching outside Columbia circles came
through charges of the committee that
a Columbia athlete who played profess
sional base ball during the Summer es-
capped getting into trouble" as the
committee quoted one of the coaches
when 1t was found that Yale. Harvard
and Princeton athletes were playing in
the same league
The matter was hushed up the World
Telegram said the committee was told
with the common consent of the ath-
letlc authorities of the four universities