Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-16 | Page 12 | Baker 'Subsidizes' Football Players to Build 'Pay-as-You-Go' Stadium

I Baker Subsidizes 9 Football Players To Build Buil You Go Stadium You Pay as I A Athletes r Work ork Hard Under Kansas ansas Sun for Tuition BALDWIN BALD Kan Nov 16 UP p- p Baker university athletes tes are getting getting getting get get- ting an up to date stadium the hard hardway way way way-an an like It All the labor on the first unit of three concrete stands Is being done by athletes under direction of or Coach h Emil Listen Liston Under a blistering Kansas sun aspirants to the various athletic teams last summer quarried rock and built stone retaining walls for forthe forthe forthe the combination athletic field Ready for Season S Tho The first section of the stadium was ready for the first football game of oC the season Last fall the work started under direction of Coach Listen Liston The students students students stu stu- dents dug ditches built forms crushed and quarried limestone Thc They got Jot bronze tans hardened to rigors of competition and competition and earned earnett sufficient money mone to pa pay tuition The project is the dream of ot Coach Listen Liston director of athletics tics and coach at Baker for 16 years Liston's college teammate George Dalton of Pittsburg Kan now a contractor was the only outsider working on the project Were Vore subsidizing t the them h e m all allright right Liston Listen said smiling as he pointed to 30 brown-backed brown athletes pouring and mixing concrete Permanent Improvement There getting 30 cents an hour for Cor that and they like it because many of ot them who want to g get geton ton on th the team couldn't afford to go o to to t ta a S SS S S. S qi j 3 l' l lS l'S S j t Athletes at Baker university Baldwin Kan are arc building their own st stadium in ina a project directed and devised by Emil S. S Liston Listen athletic director and head coach Liston says the boys like lile hard labor that it keeps them in trim and that it if enables them to earn tuition money Liston is shown above at left and at the right is one unit of th the three concrete stands the student-athletes student are arc erecting II school unless they had jobs This project gives them a job hardens them pays their tuition and in the thO end will leave a permanent improvement improvement improve improve- ment that will be paid for or when it itIs itIs itIs Is finished fini hed Officials tire proud of the i 4 project ct because e when It is 15 completed com com- there wont won't be bo any bonds and notes note to lIP pay off It Is strictly strictly strict strict- I ly a pay j go you ou go project Alumni in many schools money to develop winning winnin teams but the players do practically noth ing for their tuition Graduates and others who have contributed c can n see sec seea seca I a definite use made of their money in this project Liston said Baker university is the oldest ac accredited ac- ac I credited university in the state of Kansas and has hasan an annual enrollment enrollment enroll- enroll ment of about students student 1