The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-09
Showdown
Sought in
Colleges
BY KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

CO110g0 1OOLOa4l CAAOA0S "1"A'
reference to athletic honesty
and soon the sheep shall be
separated from the goats-the
wheat from the chaff; so that
all the world may distinguish
one from the other.
The National Association Of
State Universities is directly
responsible for the forthcom-
ing segregation of the athletic
conferences who wish. both by &C
ton and by word, to live up to
the true spirit Of amateurism
and those who prefer to exist
behind SubterfugeS, camouflage
and o veneer Of sanctification.
1909 Honesty Sought
This association, with university
membership in every section OF
America, has drawn up a pro
posal for 100 per cent honesty
in athletic eligibility and college
aid for students, athletes and
otherwise, and has asked the
various conferences in the land
to accept it or reject it. BY
their answers, ye shall know the
good and the bad intentloned IN
college sport, with particular en-
phaSiS on football.
While the proposals are recon-
mended to the conferences as
making more explicit the intent
Of some of the regulations which
are in the codes already adopted
by several college conferences, the
inference is clear that the regu-
lations are intended as standard
for all conferences to either en-
brace, or signify their unwilling
ness to live up to every interpre-
tation of honesty and decency
specified in these proposals.
So far as this observer is con-
cerned, the proposals are as far
reaching in the direction Of simon
pure college sports as any code
which has ever come to his atten-
ton. They represent an absolute
Utopia in college football for
which neither the college or pub
lie are yet ready.
They have teeth in them.
FOur.Way Responsibility
They put the responsibility Of
antisubsidization up to the stu
dent, the faculty, the alumni and
their various publications.
They advocate, not only that
members of the coaching staff
and the departments of physical
education refrain from recruiting
athletes, but also that they exert
their influence to discourage un-
fair and questionable recruiting
by alumni and students.
Preferential consideration Of
any sort for athletes over students
who are not among the sports
SQUADS is forbidden both in spirit
and in fact by a biting paragraph
which says in part:
"Only . scholarship, loan, job,
financial aid or material cOnSid-
Grafton of any kind whatsoever
-. which is open to all students
without discrimination D.. shall
be open to an athlete or pros
pective athlete"
THOROUGH PUBLICITY
Publicity features of such
awards or considerations so that
there may be no misunderstood
ing on the part Of anyone within
or without the college are pro
vided for as follows:
"a list Of any and all awards
shall, when made, be published
with amounts and rates Of pay
In the student paper, the daily
press and the permanent rec
Ords of the institution"
And, to assure fair admins
tration of any privileges, the fol-
lowing disbarring clause is offered
for the adoption Of colleges and
universities:
"Any athlete who holds a
sinecurO job or receives more
than the regular rate Of pay or
Is required to do less than regu-
lar work, is ineligible to repre-
sent the institution in intercOl-
legiate athletic contests"
A death knen is sounded to the
exploitation of college football
through what have come to be
annual classics at Pasadena, New
orleans and Miami, by the fol
lowing proposal:
RLOW AT POST-SEASON GAMES
"NO pOst-SeasOn intercollegiate
athletic contests shall be per-
mitted. No request for any ex-
ceptiOn to this regulation shall
in any case be considered"
Closer adherence to the general
principles of amateurism are
required Of the athlete, coaching
staff, faculty committee and ath
letic council by this sweeping pro
viSo:
every candidate for an ath-
letic team must, after a careful
explanation of all the eligibility
regulations and their implica-
tiOnS of honor, by the faculty
committee on athletics, declare
orally to the committee and in
writing upon his honor his eligi.
biIity or ineIigibility under each
separate regulation. Each mem
her of the athletic staff, physi-
cal education department, ath-
Ietic council and faculty com.
mittee on athletics, shall upon
his honor in writing certify his
alhnnannn In all the afh.