Evening star., 1936-03-02
REWARD FOR TOLL :
UN|VERS|TY'S IDEA
Followers of Maroon Snub
Purdue-Teams No Longer
Favored in Big Ten.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.


HICAGO, March 2.-On Uni
versity of Chicago's future
\ foot ball schedules there will
~ be one non-conference game.
likely with some small college, in
which the reserves will be given full
opportunity to fight for the dear old
Maroon
This is intended as a reward for
the scrubs who furnish cannon fod-
der for the regulars and also to en-
courage boys to remain on the squad.
One of the theories in Chic, gos new
plans of physical education--foot ball
coming under the head of education
is that no squad shall be cut and
that coaches shall give every candi-
date an equal amount of attention.
This may sound like batch of til
we'll known bunkum to the more pre-
fessional coaches of the foot ball bur-
ness. but Chicago Is going to give 1t
a trial
Shock to Purdue.
OBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS,
president of Chicago, declares
there will be no sub5d ng Of ath-
letes in any form. Which ST. '-ment
caused my good pal Mr. "Nosey"
O'Rafferty to remark, that if Chicago
had been doing any proselyting over
the past few years it certainly spent
monev under false p-etenses.' Mr..
O'Rafferty Is that sort of suy, al
ways belittlin'."
T. Nelson Metcalf. director OF ath-
letics on the Midway. has been canvass.
ing among the students and alumni to
learn which Big Ten teams are pre-
ferred as foot bell opponents. TIE
result will be somewhat of shock to
Purdue. The M'roons and Boiler.
makers have played some 4o-"dd foot
ball games and fo~ manv YER Purdue
was famous only bscau~e Amos stays
annually worked up far and fever
over the Lafayette eleven.
Now Purdue finds. and prob blv tn
| its surprise. it is sixth o. tn list Of =
preferred opponents. NJ chgau and
Illinois are tops ani NIX c~rle- w.
conein and Ohio Stat. F,r Nh
western, In'iana anA IL thu No.
rom supporters have little or no de-
sire.
Fades as Big Ten Member.
HERE wes a time when the
Chicag ago-Northwestern game wes
the high spot on the Windy Citv's
foot ball calendar. 1t was a city
championship - nothi,; less. For
years and yaers the Maroons used to
paste Northwestern all over the land
scape, but about decade ago the
Purple up and plastered the Maroons
with a good bes ting and since then
the Midway has had little enthueiasm
for the game and none has been
played.
1t is this writer's guess that
eventually Chicago will become only a
nominal member of the Western Con-
ference. This. of course. will be
stoutly denied, for the Maroons were
charter members of what is now the
Big Ten. But circun tsnces point to
a gre dual restriction OF foot ba'l COM
petition on the Midway. with the rr-
suit that Chicago will engage in LITTLE +
Oh no Big Ten foot ball
Chicaco's cuGtailmeIt of conferenc.
foot ball contests is based on the
theory it no longer can match material:
with other Big Ten members. Yet
the Maroon undergraduate student
body certainly is as large as that Of
Indiana or Purdue, and there is no
talk of reducing foot ball activities
at those institutions. In fact, Indiana
hopes to be one of the stronger elevens
in the conference next season.
Gates Not Important. :;
PRESIDENT HUTCH1NS further
says: THE univerr't' will con-
tinue to treat the athletic department
like any other department and wifi
meet its deficits as it does of others"
That sets up en- ideal situation for
Nelson Metcalfe and Clarke Shaugh.
messy. :
Gates no longer will be Of Inn
portance. Chicago. with its tremen-
dous endowments, possibly can afford
such luxury, but other members of
the Big Ten cannot. At most Big Ten,
schools the athletic departments must.
be self-supporting and earn a profit
to provide for the cost and upkeep Of
stadia, field houses. etc.
In the end. if Chicago continues to
have mediocre teams and does not
care for the amount of financial re-
turns, it may find difficulty in sched-.
uling any conference games. The Ma
rooms may be altruistic, but the others