The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-23
SPORTS WRITER CALLS FOOTBALL
 GAME A RACKET
Players Should Be Paid OpenIy-Pitt Cited as
 Professionals
By LESLIE AVERY

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 United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 New York, Oct. 23-(UP)-John R. Tunis, well known sports writer crusading for more pay for college football stars in the current issue of American Mercury, commended Yale today for coming into the open and calling a spade a spade-and football golden egg"
 Yale signed away the privilege of broadcasting their games this year.
 "At last we have an old estab- liShed university admitting openly what has long been a fact; that col- lege football is racket" Tunis said. "Yale is cashing in on this racket. Yale intends to get her cut"
 What Tunis doesn't like about the collegiate football setup, is that the players are not getting their share. He denied that he was attempting satire"
 q mean every word," he said. Surely it is an occasion for hon. est celebration when we abandon the ridiculous custom of calling pro- fessionaliZed athletes amateurs.
 We are, thank heaven, getting to the point where college athletes can be paid salaries and paid frankly" !"
 Tunis classified 100 colleges into three groups-amateur, semi-pros and profeSSionalS-A. B. and c re- spectively.
 He labeled B schools simon pure, 26 Semil-professional, and 41 profess sional. He defined class A colleges as mostly small colleges of high standing, many of extremely high standing in the educational world. They all play football. So far as I know, none of them buys athletes or goes in for high-powered pro- fessional coach. None attempts to underwrite ahuge stadium"
 Group B." Tunis said, include both small and large colleges All have athletic plants which cost real money to maintain. These colleges strive to subsidize good teams in order to make their ath- letic corporations function profit ably
 Using the University of Pittsburgh as an example for class c, Tunis said it was comprised of 8 "wierd assortment, for football-like poli- tics-makes strange bedfellows. Pittsburgh, for instance, has yearly mortgage payments of nearly $2OO,- 900 on its stadium. To meet this bill, the Pitt team has for several seasons been playing a terrific schedule. Naturally it is impossible to assemble legitimate enrolment of students which can produce 2 team capable of meeting such oppo. nents on successive week-ends. St if you choose to call this thins sport, all right. But don't call il amateur sport"
 His list included:
 Class A-Allegheney, Bowdoin Brown, California Tech, Centre Chicago, c. c. N. Y, Colby, Getts- burg, Hamilton, Haverford, Hobart Johns Hopkins, Kenyon, Knox, Le- high, Maine, Middlebury, Oberlin Occidental, Pomona, Rochester Rutgers, Sewanee, Swathmore Trinity, Tufts, Union, Ursinus, Vir- ginia, Wesleyan, William and Mary and Williams.
 Class B-Amherst, Army, Boston U., California, Cincinnati, Cornell Dartmouth, Harvard, Illinois, Iowa Kentucky, Lafayette, Maryland Michigan, Navy, N. Y. U., Notre Dame, Pennsylvania, Penn State Purdue, Rollins, Tennessee, Texas Canderbilt, W. and J., and Yale.
 Class C-Alabama, Baylor, Bos. ton College, Bucknell, Carnegie Tech, Colgate, Columbia, Detroit Duke, Dequesne, Fordham, George. town, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana State, Marquette, Michigan State Minnesota, Missouri, braska North Carolina, Northwestern, Ohit State Oregon, Pittsburgh, Prince. ton, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, South. ern California, Southern Metho. dist, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple Texas Christian, Tulane, Villanova Worcester Poly, Washington, West. ern Maryland, West Virginia ans Wisconsin.