Evening star., 1946-01-10
Nonvarsity Athletes
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Nation,. Smith Says
Ey the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10.-An enlarged
college sports program, conducted on
a sound and sensible basis" was
urged today by the head of the
National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
ciation'in reporting interest in COM
petitive sports at an all-time high.
DR.. Wilbur c. Smith of Louisiana
State University, president of the
association, declared in his annual
report, prepared for the NCAA
business section, that something
must be done to provide competitive
sports for students who can't make
the varsity teams.
1--WE should take full responsibility
and realize that as a Nation our
young men of draft age were not
physically fit at the time of Pearl
Harbor," DR.. Smith said.
He announced that the presidents
of all member colleges and universi-
ties had been polled on their attitude
toward the NCAA's code of conduct
for collegiate athletics which pro-
vides that athletes shall not be
placed on a different basis from
other students in the award of finan-
cial aid.
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OF the 63 per cent who replied, DR..
Smith said, "the great majority
stated that they were in accord with
our principles. Some also suggested
desire for stronger regulation by
the NCAA in seeing that this decla-
ration is observed.
Never in the history of intercol-
legiate athletics has the interest in
competitive sports been so pro-
nounced as at the present time. AS
an organization we face the grave
responsibility of seeing that this vast
intercollegiate program is conducted
'on a sound and sensible basis"
Among reports at todayS meeting
was one by the first (New EnglanO
district, prepared by Edward S. Par
sons of Northeastern University,
dealing with "the growth of the
commercial basket ball ventures in
volving college teams in the big
sports arenas OF some of our large
cities"
The First District Committee rec
commended that all intercollegiate
contests be played on "home floors
or fields under college jurisdiction,
and that colleges do not make con-
tributions 'of material or informa-
ton to agencies which publish fore
casts or probable results of contests
or such information as is helpful
to gamblers"
Would Favor Athletes.
Open dealing in financial help to
athletes under strict faculty control
was proposed by two college presi-
dents to keep the colossus of post
war sports within bounds.
Neither DR.. John A. Hannah of
Michigan State nor DR.. T. j. Davies
of Colorado College found any in
herent harm in athletic scholar
ships.
"I would not require that athletes
be eligible only to the same grants
as are nonathletes," DR.. Hannah
said.
He would require that all grants,
regardless of nature, be handled by
the same faculty group which han
dies similar grants to nonathletes,
and that records of these be open to
the NCAA or any accrediting asso-
citation.
DR.. Davies said that grants to
athletes either openly or sub rosa
were inevitable. He outlined four
requirements of the scholarship
program at Colorado College which
he said provided a sound alignment
of athletics and academic work
These are:
/. A scholarship nominee must
meet regular entrance requirements.
2. He must continue to meet aca-
demic requirements.
8. His failure to compete in ath-
letics, either because of injury or
academic reasons, must not termi-
nate-the scholarship.
4. He must not be paid more than
value received on any iob given him