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one Saturday, then dropped be-
cause of complaints Of the pub
lie. the committee noted.
There should be no, compari-
son between the televiSing of
professional football games and
those played by colleges, the re-
port said.
! The National Football League
problem is simple because it can
black out areas where the games
are taking place, the committee
said. The colleges, with an av-
erage of 180 games a week, can
not black out home areas.
Research Group Reports.
"Since they cannot restrict TV
outlets, their tthe colleges only
recourse is to reduce the number
of telecasts," the report con-
tinueS.
The report included prelimi-
nary findings of the National
Opinion Research Center which
has been studying effects of TV
for four years on college football
attendance.
The research group found the
loss in attendance attributable
to TV competition was 27.7 per
cent for 1858. 1t previously had
estimated the differential under
unlimited TV would have been
40 per cent or greater.
The 27.7 percentage was ar
rived at by taking % colleges
which showed a gain of 9.3 per
cent where there was no TV.
while an 1874 per cent decline
in attendance was noted in TV
areas. The comparison was
made with attendance figures
during the 1918 period when
CneTe was no CeleVlSlOn.
Many Coaching Jobs Open.
Meanwhile. the coaches. not
the players, were footballs men
in motion as the NCAA neared
the end of its 48th convention.
Hoping to line up one of nine
or more head coaching jobs.
aspirants were scurrying around
to see various athletic directors
before all head back to their
home bases Saturday.
Dayton University filled its
coaching berth last night by hir-
ing Hugh Devore. formerly Of
st. Bonaventure and Notre
Dame, but still looking for head
coaches were Toledo. Minnesota,
North Carolina State. Idaho.
Texas AIM, Pennsylvania. Iowa
State, Kansas and several smaller
schools. Nebraska is seeking an
athletic director.
Ike Armstrong, Minnesota
athletic director, summed up the
attitude of all the principals in
the job-hunting group when he
said:
I'm talking to a lot of people
here. Some of them about the
coaching vacancy, some about
other things. I'm not naming
any one I confer with, for it
just wouldn't be fair. When we
decide on a coach, We'll announce
it. Until then I have nothing
to say about the matter"
Concerned About Pros.
Tom Hamilton, University Of
Pittsburgh athletic director and
Executive Committee member of
the NCAA, recognized the pro-
fessional upsurge in talk before
the sports division of the Ameri-
can College Public Relations As
sociation.
1T must be recognized that
professional football is gaining in
popularity over college football
because the pros are doing a bet
ter job of selling their Show"
said Hamilton, former star.
This does not mean that we,
as colleges, should initiate every
phase of the pro method of op-
Grafton. 1t isn't meant in criti-
cism of you publicity men. 1t
means that we have been so con-
cerned with self-criticism, cor
rection of relatively few abuses,
lack of agreement over whether
we should have one-platoon or
two-platoon football-things of
that sort-that we have neg
lected to stress the important
part college football is playing in
the American sports scene"