The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-27
Recruiting Blamed
 I College Sports
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-@---- CornelIs athletic stand and an- swered those critics who had inti- mated that Cornell was t'loosening up'' in regard to scholarships.
 Cornell is not loosening-up,' !" he said, but we do not see the sense in discriminating against one just because they happen to be othletes."
 Prof. A. w. Marvel of Brown was of the opinion that the evils of recruiting were highly exag- gerated.
 :, The committee of five will draft its definition tonight and present it to the general meeting of the W. c. A. 4. tomorrow.
 Dr Savage Speaks
 There was a change for the bet ter in the conduct of American college sport after publication of the Carnegie foundations bulletin No 26 in 1929. but now the col Ieges are back-sliding in earnest, pr Edward W. Savage of the foun- dation told the sportsmanship brotherhood Rt its annual lunch con today.
 The famed bulletin and it's wholesale expose of football evils led to clean-up which lasted only about a year and a half, Dr Saw age said.
 The foundation has not studied athletics intensively in the past five years, Dr Savage said, but in formation has been obtained "and a large portion of 1t is not cheerful Some institutions which seemed tc be making notable progress to- wards clean sport have wavered 1T their course. Others that once had good records have forfeited them sometimes under alumni pressure. Still others have continued and even intensified their shady prac- tices."
 Dr Savage said that in 1892 it was evident that in some parts ot the country a retrograde movement was under way; that the depres- sion had begun to lay hold upon the colleges"
 The foundation executive eX- pressed the opinion that the result of the depression was two-fold.
 "On the one hand" he said, "college and university income. whether from tuition or from en- dowment or from legislative appro- priations, was falling seriously. Athletics suffered their full share of financial difficulties. Even the best intrenched and most respected institutions felt the pressure. On the other hand, and perhaps even more important, the feeling of economic security led to a kind of panic fear, which sometimes slow ly, sometimes in great waves, be- gan to impair the morale of ad- ministrative officers, faculties and trustees, and even in some cases, of undergraduates"
 Rev John F. O'Hara
 Another speaker at the luncheon, Rev John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame, did not share the view that football was over-emphasized.
 Rev O'Hara's topic was Sports manship in education" but he touched on football and said he could see no good reason for refus- ing to admit the public to games CT charge admission.
 "At Notre Dame," Rev O'Hara said, i've have almost as many candidates for the debating team we have for football, but for some reason or other the public would rather watch 22 men play football than listen to six men de- bate. However, if the public tenn per changes sufficiently we may have to put a roof over the sta- dium and move our football games to Washington hall.
 "I seem to have heard some- where a criticism that football IS over-emphasized in our colleges, and the criticism seems to have come from someone who felt that the funds used for football, an ex- pensive sport in it's modern tra D. pings, rightly belong to more in- tellectual pursuits. believe that the best answer I have heard for this criticism was given at a foot mall banquet recently when some- one stated that it looks as though football which was dishonored and put out as a step-child a few years ago, has now come back to sup port tho old man when he is out of a job.' If the public interest in football can be made to pay divi- dends that will supply for waning waning interest from endowment --->-@@------a-----------~--- ----------------->--