The Washington times., 1935-10-15


Kirk Miller day an
athlete was barred from rep
resenting North Cardinals foot
ball team, which is now right
well established in its bid for
national recognition, because
Maryland University had
brought to its attention the fact
che lad lad experienced previous
varsity servitude at Catholic
University. AL of this is very
much against the Southern Con-
ference intercollegiate football
rules.
do not believe I am stretch
ing the truth when I say our
purist friends to the South
actually frown on such goings-
on as a football player repre-.
senting a college in varsity play
previous to his appearance in
the snowy robes of a Southern
Conference eleven.
The Fun Begins
Now what does the disbarred
Carolina player, John L. Sniscak
do but depose and say that
Maryland herself has not clean
skirts, when it comes to it's
football eligibleS and that two
of its number have not always
had Maryland as their master
or potential Alma Nanny.
Maryland denies the eligibility
doubt thrown about these two
young men, one Of them a
Washingtonian, Al Farrell, of
the famous Farrell athletic
family and the other, Bill
Andorka, Maryland'S regular
center who entered Maryland
out of West Liberty Teachers
College of West Liberty, West
Virginia-by crackie!
Maryland says of Andorka:
Certainly he played football
at West Liberty Teachers" and
"What Of West Liberty
Teachers is a Junior college
and junior college competition
doesn't count in computing
varsity cOmpetitiOn!"
And j. A. Baratel, athletic
director of West Liberty Teachers
wires The Times:
'Bill AndOrka played one year
of football in 1882 at West
Liberty Teachers"
Uncle Sam Speaks
The United States Office of
Education in the. Hurley-Wright
Building on Pennsylvania
Avenue where H Street creeps
in at Eighteenth Street, says
that West Liberty Teachers Col
lege is a four-year-cours college
which gives degrees and that
insofar as any information 1t
has, is concerned, is in no way
to be confused as a Junior col
lege, which does not give
degrees.
The institution up to 1880 did
not give degrees, and, according
to the telegram from Athletic
Director Bartel, Andorka played
a year of football in 1882, quite
subsequent to the year of our
Lord 1880 when the legislature
granted West Liberty the right
to give degrees. The chief dis
tinction between a full-fledged
college and a junior college, be
it remembered, is that the latter
is never a four-year course and
never grants degrees, but rather
diplomas for academic achieve
ment.
Previous to 1880 West Liberty,
bless her heart, was a State nor
NAL, or teachers college which
merely gave these certificates of
attainment along the educa-
tional lines for which it was
conceived-making teachers.
To Be or Not to Be
Granted the right to give de-
grees in 1880 by the legislature,
West Liberty, was further IA
vored by the law makers of West
Virginia by being made a full
fledged college with a four-year
course, which, in the opinion of
the registrars of two Washing
ton universities and the U. S.
Office of Education, quite re-
moves West Liberty Teachers
from any suggestion of being a
Junior college-as claimed for it
by Maryland in laughing off the
charges hurled at it's star center,
Bill Andorka, by the disgruntled,
disappointed, and dish barred
North Carolina football player,
Johnny Sniscak, who is officially
and under oath, doing the mud
singing at Maryland and An
dorka.
Now in view of the above
facts which 1 have made a
right honest attempt to adduce,
there is only one athletic pre-
tense behind which Maryland
can hide in upholding the