The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-22

are just letting their ideas
Horne Expected
To begin with, we think an open
subsidization policy is better than a
cover-up system, but there will be
a powerful lot of complaining from
Tar Heel natives over the result.
Somehow we can't help but feel
that there is more behind the forma-
ton of the Wolfpack club than
came out in the published article.
We wonder if Doc Newton isn't
feeling the am thing.
But be that as it may, there are
arguments both for and against the
Wolfpack's scheme.
In the first place, if the father Of
the club is who we think it is
State college football players for the
next five years will come from
above the Mason and Dixon line and
the ideal that Doc Newton has been
working fora football team made
up of North Carolina boys entirely
will be gone. And as a result
there will be a howl from many
II of the state that Tar Heel
lads are not given a chance.
On the most part, we think, that
football coaches would like to get
back to the idea of building teams
with the material you have, the
material that is found in the class
rooms of the college. But as the
matter now stands, with other
schools building football teams from
boys who try to get all they can in
the way of money, they have to
creep into the edge of profession
alism. And in the end it becomes
merely a system, described no bet
ter than a vicious circle.
But the circle has been started
and State college alumni will be
called on many, many times be-
tween now and next fall to dig into
their jeans and produce the long
green for which football players
will be bought.
Seifert's Statement
Yesterday D. w. Dutch) Seifert,
of Weldon, who was elected presi'
dent of the Wolfpack club, an.
nounced the formation of the or.
ganization and his statement has
good reasoning in it, no matter how
one looks at it.
Seifert said:
whether we like it or not, subsi
dizing of athletes is and has beer
going on for years in every school,
OF our acquaintance, and for the
past two years we have been en-
d%eavoring to and have brought our
proselyting activities out from I'M
der the table by publicizing the rails.
ing of funds among our alumni in
u several publications.
1--WE believe that the time has
come for athletic scholarships to
be placed on a business-like basis,
open and aboveboard from every
standpoint. And that is exactly
what we r going to do.
THE Wolfpack club intends tc
create a fund sufficiently large to
give our coaches in all sports the
athletic material they need and
should have in order to meet the
powerful teams on our schedules.
eve know that there are many
fine boys who are unable to obtain
their education except through such
means as those we are creating
and inasmuch as the majority OF
the better athletes come from fami
lie that cannot afford to send them
to college, we are confident that the
good the Wolfpack club will dc
along this line will offset any harm
If there is any, Of openly subsidiz
Ing athletes"
Odds and Ends
The North Carolina White Phan
toms have an average of 81 points
per game in every game played sc
Tar this season . they are a.
present leading the Southern con
ference cage race and look good fol
the tournament %favorites when tn,
meet comes off the Clemson
college coaching staff is probabl,
the youngest of any major institu
ton. The average & Of the com
plete staff of varsity and freshman
coaches is an eve 80 years ..
Clemson's Banks McFadden, tn
All-American football player, has
varsity letter in football, basketba1
and track and he now announces h
will try for a baseball letter mex
spring -. verify, an ambitious lac
New Hanover high school boxer
r angling for a meet with tn
strong Whiteville team a NEE
has been tentatively set for Frida
of this week but examinations ma
cause postponement.