Evening star., 1932-01-13
|UNDERGRADS SEEK
| RADICAL CHANGES
Colleges Lacking Finances
for Athletics Harassed
by Protests.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n yEW YORK, January 13.-
VI Harvard's decision to 60
/ Y right ahead with all inter-
collegiate and intramural
athletics in spite of a 100000 re-
duction in receipts this year was
not surprising. Harvard's stadium
and all items of her athletic plant
are paid for and she can we'll af-
ford this practical gesture of car
rying on with head unboWed by
the financial depression.
But what about such an institution
as Kansas, which owes money on its
stadium and where attendance at foot
ball games last Fall dropped almost to
nothing?
Aside from finances the situation at
Kansas Is not good and there Is a
feeling that conditions were not all
exposed in the findings In the Bausch
case last year Handbills issued by stu
dents and addressed to Gov. Woodring
asking for radical change in the per-
sonnel of the athletic directorate as
well as the dismissal of Chancellor
Lindley, have not as yet brought re-
suits.
At least the Governor has not met
the request for a hearing at which the
student authors of the handful prom
ised to appear in support of their de-
nands for change.
Missouri Coach Mistreated.
Those who know Gwinn Henry OF
Missouri, who respect him as man
and appreciate his ability as coach,
will sympathize with him in his pres
ent troubles, among which was the re-
fusal of the players to give him vote
of confidence after he had been at
tackled in the student daily.
The fact is Henry schould have been
in bed instead of on the foot ball grid
iron last season. He suffered from an
infection complicated by neuritis when
practice opened. 1t panied him sharply
even to walk. Yet he stayed with his
team until early November, when he
was forced into hospital. All OF which
gives a picture of the other side OF
foot ball coaching.
Additional turmoil in the Missouri
Valley is caused by the fulminations OF
the undergraduate daily at Lincoln, the
Nebraskan. The inspiration seems to
have been the Columbia Spectator. At
all events foot ball IS being exposed as
a huge advertising scheme for the uni
versity. Students, it is asserted, are
being dragooned into attending "puerile
| and idiotic" foot ball rallies and to
making assininely noisy automatons OF
themselves in the stands.
Aftermath of the meeting of coaches
| and athletic directors In New York re-
| lates chiefly to runor that Harvard
had offered Princeton November
foot ball date in an effort to lead the
way to a patching up OF the break IN
the big three and that the Tigers
had declined.
The fact is that no such date was
offered, and the fact also is that until
Harvard agrees to a rotating schedule
among Yale, Harvard and Princeton
there will be no foot ball games between
old Nassau and the Crimson. And Har-
ward will never agree to such an
arrangement so long as President
Lowell occupies the throne at Cam
bridge, and may never agree, no mat
ter who is president.
In the meantime both Harvard and
Princeton athletic authorities depre-
cate-in fact, resent-public belief that
the break involves a feud between the
two old universities. No feud exists.
Not even bad feeling is indicated be-
tween either the undergraduates or the
athletic authorities. The foot ball
break was characterized by dignity
| officially, at least. There is not, and
never has been, rancor between the
athletic authorities Of the two universe
| ties