The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-22
NO SOLUTION OF COLLEGE GRID
 GAME IN SIGHT
Official of N. C. A. A. at 7z, Discusses Current Fail.
 ure of Football
BY WILLIAM D. CLARK

BY WILLIAM ID. CLARK
 United Press Staff CoErespondent)
 Middletown, Conn, December a - (UP) -. Frank w. Nicholson, who has divided 37 of his T2 years of life between teaching Latin and Greek and being secretary-treasurer of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation, today believed that college football, despite its growing popu. larity, faces . serious problem" in recruiting and suhsidization.
 The situation B growing worse, he said, land the only remedy seems to lie medication and publiciay.
 College students are being of- fered ao bad example in hypocricy. College officials wash their hands of the matter and throw ths blame on the alumni. It would be well If colleges that preserve strictly anna teur standards would schedule games only iwth those of similar ideals, but who can classify the cOl- leges2 Lists such as those of Car negie Bulletin No. g and John R. Tunis are not accetped as authori- tative.
 "The southeastern conference de- cided last year to permit award- ing of scholarships covering prac- tically the cost of year in college. Its neighbor, the southern confer. ence, continues to prohibit such awards. The experience of few years in these conferences may throw come light on this problem. Meantime, the offer of $i00,000 to be awarded in athletic scholarships has put the question right up to the athletic authorities at Cornell. And he western conference (Big ten) has turned down proposition of a Wis corsin professor to legalize athletic scholarships.
 with college sentiment thus di- vided, no solution of the problem appears in sight"
 with college sentiment thus di- vided, no solution of the problem appears in sight"
 Aside from this grievance, Nicol- son said there was "too much over- shadowing of players by coaches" in the present-day game, and that players were being turned into TO- bots.
 "The press names Q college team after its coach, or by some Nick- name intended to signify its prowess, instead of giving the college the credit" he complained. 'The coach directs almost all of the plays on the field by sending in instructions by new players in football, or by signaling from the bench in base- ball, thus robbing the players of initiative and resource and making them robots. The coach is supposed to teach the boys haw to meet emer- gencieS. The classroom teacher does not signal a pupil how to an- swer the question he k propound- ing"
 Regardless of the many problems of the sport, Nicholson said football would survive "so long as the com- bative instinct persists in human nature. Football Is like war in its best phases - the chivolrous man. to-man conflict of the air fighters, not the wiping out of victims by long distance shell. So long as a football player can pick himself up from the mud after being tackled fifteen or twenty times in game, can smile at his opponent and shake hands with him after the game in appreciation of his skilful playing, just so long will football justify 1t. self in promoting courage, persist ence and good sportsmanship."
 The annual meeting of the N. c. A. A., will be held next week in New York. At that time 1t H expected action will be taken toward prohibiting member colleges from participating in post-season bowl" games because of the professionals ism" taint.
 A number of university presidents and athletic directors have been tn- vited to the conference to discuss "are our intercollegiat athletics to remain amateur?". They will in- clude President James L. Mo- Conaughty, Wesleyan; Thurston J. Davies, Colorado, and Ralph J. Hut chinson, Washington and Jefferson.