Evening star., 1947-01-09
Paris Trial Raises Question Of Policing Gridders
Purity Code Drafted.
Colleges Have Year
To Clean Up Rules
By the A,soeiuted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-The 252
member colleges Of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association were
under moral obligation today to
abide by the groups newly drafted
purity code" and to start cleaning
their athletic houses Immediately.
Actually, the set of five principles
governing the conduct of intercol-
legiate athletics which were ap-
proved at the concluding session of
the NCAA yesterday do not go
into effect until the next annual
meeting in 1948.
Between now and then, the code
with its implementation clause pro-
viding sanctions against noncon-
formist schools in the form of a
schedule boycott, will be written
into the constitution by a COM
mittee appointed for that purpose.
Have Year to Adjust Rules.
"This will give the colleges
year of grace to get cleaned up and
adjust their conference rules, where
necessary, to conform to our rules"
explained Professor Karl E. Leib,
Iowa's faculty chairman of athletics
who was elected president for 1947.
Also referred to the Constitutional
Revision Committee was a resolution
offered by Col. William Couper OF
Virginia Military Institute which
would limit colleges to 10 varsity
football games season and pro-
hibit participation in postseason
games.
Couper's antibowl proposal and
the antirecruiting provisions of the
purity code met with vigorous op-
position on the convention floor.
The other code provisions, including
one limiting financial aid to ath-
letes to tuition, were adopted by
unanimous votes.
The Southern colleges and partic-
ularly the Southeastern Confer
ence, which admits to paying its
athletes through open subsidiza-
ton, went along with the majority
of the convention in approving all
the principles except the recruit"
ing clause.
Wording Is Attacked.
Most Southern colleges and a
few others, including Fordham, de-
clared that the recruiting para
graph was poorly worded and not
practical under certain sectional
conditions.
This section says in part: mo
member of an athletic staff or 9TH
er official representative of ath-
letic interests shall, outside the
boundaries of his own campus, solicit
the attendance at his institution OF
any prospective student; nor shall
he, whether on or off the campus,
be permitted to offer financial aid
or equivalent inducements to any
prospective students. >"
Delegates from the South and
Southwest maintained that recruit
ing would be continued with almuni
in charge and that it would give
advantages to colleges with strong
alumni organizations. Gayle Scott
of Texas Christian 'and William A.
Alexander of Georgia Tech were the
principal spokesmen for the neg
ative side.
The principle finally was adopted,
rs to SO, in the only showdown roll
call vote. Some colleges, notably
Notre Dame, abstained from voting.
Long Discussion ON Bowls.
The decision to table the anti
bowl resolution and then refer 1t
to the committee came after a
lengthy discussion during which it
was pointed out that the long-estab-
lished bowl games have become an
accepted part of the collegiate pro-
gram.
The convention unanimously
adopted the resolution, derived from
a round table discussion yesterday,
opposing gambling. The action calls
for the naming of a committee
and puts the NCAA on record
as agreeing to consider the organi-
zation of clean sports fedora
ton" It calls for stronger law en-
forcement and suggests that news
papers refrain from printing odds
or probable winners and that
coaches and athletic directors be
forbidden from making predictions.