Evening star., 1947-01-07
Gamblers, Bowl TiIis
ImperiI College Grid,
NCAA Is Warned
By Bob Grub
Assoeiafed Press Sports Writer


NEW YORK, Jan. III. L. Morrill,,
president Of the University OF
Minnesota, told delegates to the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
ton convention today that he re-
gretted the big Nine had sue
cumbed to the football bowl craze" !"
The Western Conference last Fall
signed a 5-year agreement with the
Pacific Coast Conference to send
its football champion to Pasadena,
Calf, for the Rose Bowl game.
In his speech, Morrill, also de-
clared that intercollegiate football
is ready for killing by the gamblers
and when that killing takes place
it will rock our big stadiums to their
very foundations"
He added that bowl games "are
not help to protect football from
evil influences" q
Tomorrow the MEGA delegates
will receive the fve-point program
drawn up yesterday by the con-
ference of conferences in which the
252 colleges making up the organi-
zation are asked to apply sanctions
against the schools which do not
live up to the code.
Pure Amateurism Urged.
The threat of a schedule boycott
would be the means of enforcing the
basic code of amateurism in ath-
letics, according to recommends
tions drawn up by the NCAAs con-
ference of conferences" here yester-
day.
The principle on amateurism not
only reaffirms the standard Amateur
Athletic Union and Olympic defini-
ton of an amateur, but adds that
"any college athlete who takes pay
for participation In athletics does
not meet this definition of an am
ateur."
Under this principle, room and
board usually supplied to scholar
ship athletes is outlawed unless an
athlete actually works for it.
The Southeastern Conference,
which permits athletic scholarships
including room and board, books
and other necessities. is held up as
the principal nonconformist group.
The Southeastern Conference pre-
viously had indicated it would
change it's rules to conform with
any adopted by the NCAA.
A second principle on "institu-
tional control and responsibility"
on which the NCAA was founded
in 1905, says that the college itself
LID the final analysis. shall exercise
them.
The third principle, sound aca-
idemic standards" DEGREES that an
athlete must be admitted to col
llege in the same manner as any
other student and maintain TIE
same academic standards.
Undercover subsidies are hit IN
the fourth principle, dealing with
financial aids to athletes" This
rules out all payments to athletes
other than through regular grants
and scholarships open to all STU
dents. An exception is made, how
ever, for Government grants and
scholarships, which may cover more
than just tuition. Pay for student
jobs may not be excessive and no
athlete is to be deprived of a schol-
arship for failure to compete In
athletics.
Not to Solicit Athletes.
After considerable discussion
fifth principle was adopted decree
ing that no member Of an athletic
staff or official representative OF
athletic interests may engage in
off campus solicitation of students
or offer financial aid to prospective
students.
The organization, If it adopts the
clause, would expect
each college member to act as its
own policeman by boycotting COL
lleges which are known to violate
the code.