The Phoenix index., 1941-09-27
SPORTS SLANTS
By Melancholy Jones
Charge Made That Southern Colored
Colleges Not Recognized, But They
Are Salvation OF Bic Eastern Stars

1T WAS SUNDAY twilight and the column wend-
ing it's toward the SINS sports desk to align the Monday
copy to be found in todays page small army of More
house and Clark gdders encountered at the West Fair
Chestnut Street intersection.
brief stop land Az talk swung Immediately to foot
ball. The Maroon boys with AlvOye Pride main spokes-
and the valued Leon Elan standing in obvious assent
beside his pal Harry Miller assured that MOehOuse would
have better team than most people expected.
The column introduced, later, to bunch of the
boys from up east who 1941 additions to the Clark
football squad Talk centered around mutual friends like
Clarence Sonny Younger Donald (Red) Brahwate, and
Ernest (EIunky) White
1t was somewhere amid stream of football chatter
Sunday evening that of the norheers made the follow
ing query:
"a bow can come down south and get pretty good
break making his way through college, but what does it
mean after all? These southern colleges aren't recognized
up east so what can we look forward after graduaOn
Jnoffended but violently disturbed by such unjust
fled position the column hastened to reply follows:
y friend if, for the sake of argument granted you
the southern Negro colleges recognized east (Which
don't grant the would still remain that Negro stars
those recognized mixed colleges and universities in your
section don't fare well by their northern alma matters aft
all.
GLOW do you explain the fact that, at Cornell they
named gymnasium for Jerome Brud) Holland but he had
to southwark to Negro institution to get galnul EN-
plOyment?
GLOW do you explain the of Olympic Hero Ralph
Metcalfe of Marquette University at Xavier down In New
Orleans? .--
A. and t. doing at lie MOyne in Memphis before en-
tering Meharry Medical college?
you explain the presence at A and T. of Roland
Bernard of University and of Archie Harris of In
How do you account for the presence of Olympic Hero
David Albritton of Ohio State at Alabama State?'
No answer to these questions forthcoming, so the
column gratfied that it had struck sympathetic note in
the ears -dssioned invaders, cOntnued
"My experience and observation is that the northern
boys who southern Negro colleges and major in
something BESIDES football basketball, and track actually
GET SOMEWHERE after graduation.
But you have to major in something within the class
room in addition to football and the other sports.
II don't have much sympathy for the boy who makes a
name himself in athletics and then goes out in the world
pOuting because he can't get break
You have to make your way and the proper way to do
is by laying foundation for success.
"I have known plenty of New York and Chicago boys
who southern Negro colleges primarily to play
education and hasten to you 500 of those
compiled any records whatever the classroom
have their marks since graduation In fact most Of
those boys have back east except visits
Ny good friend Hubert NJ Jackson, about whom you'll
learn later could give boys nice lecture on what
south offer You may not know him. OF course
but by way of information he's just native New Yorker
who has SOUTH found it the place to be- and
pitched his teepee here for good But you'll find out must
be going now, fellows, but I'll look in on all of YOU
1t wondered if Cornell would call Brud Holland to
administrative jOb if Michigan would recall Willis Ward
to lucrative post if Ohio State would create place for
Jesse Owens, David AbrittOn, and Bill Bell Minnesota
would do something toward Horace Bell, Dwight Reed and
Ellsworth HarpO if Northwestern would take of Bernie
Jefferson and Clarence Hinton, and
But you know the answer already. It's "NO". Why,
then should New York Chicago boy southern
lifes work?