Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-23 | Page 24 | Grid Sport Real Racket, Says Scribe

Grid Sport Real Racket Rack t Says Scribe By LESLIE A VERY United Press Sports Spotts Writer NEW YORK Oct 23 J 23 John 23 John ohn R R. Tunis well known sports writer r crusading for more pay for college football stars in the current issue of American Mercury commended Yale today for coming Into the open and calling a spade a spade spade and and football a golden egg Yale signed away the privilege of broadcasting its games this year At last we have an old established established established university admitting openly what has long been a a fact that tha college football is a racket Tunis said Yale is cashing in on this racket Yale intends to get her cut Not Getting Share I What Tunis doesn't like about abou the collegiate football setup is that the players are not getting their share He denied he was attempting attempting attempt attempt- ing satire I 1 mean every word he said Surely It is an occasion for honest celebration when we abandon the ridiculous custom of calling pro pro- athletes amateurs We are thank heaven getting to o the po point nt where college athletes ca nbc paid salaries and paid frankly Tunis classified colleges into three groups groups amateur amateur and professionals professionals-A A B Band and C re re- re He labeled 33 schools simon-pure simon 26 semiprofessional and 41 professional He defined class A colleges as mostly small colleges of high standing many of extremely extreme- extreme ly y high standing in the educational world They all play football So far as I know none of them buys athletes or goes in for a pow high ered coach None attempts to underwrite underwrite underwrite un un- un- un a huge stadium Subsidize Teams Group B Tunis said includes both oth small and large colleges All have athletic plants which cost real money to main maintain fain These colleges strive to subsidize good teams in order to make their athletic cor cor- function profitably Using the University of Pitts- Pitts burgh AS s an example for class C Tunis said the group was comprised of a weird assortment for football like like politics makes politics makes strange bed bed- fellows Pittsburgh for instance has yearly mortgage payments of nearly on its stadium To meet this bill biU the Pitt team has for several seasons been playing a terrific schedule Naturally it is Impossible to assemble a legitimate enrollment of students which can produce a team capable of meeting such opponents on successive week week- ends So if you choose to call this thing hing sport all aU right But dont don't call it t amateur sport The colleges catalogued by shy Tunis as amateur A semipro B and professional C follow Cass A Allegheny A-Allegheny A Bowdoin Brown California Tech Centre Chicago C. C Cs C. C N s' s Y Colby Gettysburg Hamilton Bayer Haver- ford ord hobart g r J Johns is Hopkins Kenyon Knox t Lehigh Maine Middlebury Oberlin dental dental Pomona Rochester Rutgers Rutger Sewanee Se Se- wanee wanes Swarthmore Trinity Tufte Union g Ursinus Swarthmore Vu Virginia Wesleyan eslean William an and and Mary Mar Marand and Williams d Class B B Amherst Amherst Army Boston U U. U Call Call- fornia Cincinnati Cornell Dartmouth Dartmouth Har Bar yard vard Maryland i I IJ Illinois Michigan Ch Iowa N Navy Kentucky U N. N Yr y LJ Lafayette U. U aY fi fiffi Dame ame Pennsylvania Penn State Purdue Rollins ir Pj Tennessee Texas Q Vanderbilt dW Wand w w. and nd J. J and Yale Class Clasa C Alabama C-Alabama Alabama Baylor Boston eel fol- tJ le lege Bucknell Carnegie Tech Colgate t Co- Co Detroit Duke Duquesne Fordham Georgetown Georgia Kansas Louisiana State Marquette Michigan State te Mines ota cots Missouri Nebraska North Carolina Northwestern Ohio State Oregon Oreon Pills Pats burgh h Princeton Santa Clara clara St. St Marys Mary's Southern California Southern Methodist Stanford Syracuse Temple Texas ChrisIan Chris Chris- Ian tian Tulane Villanova Worcester Poly Washington Western Maryland West Virginia Vir VIr- ginia and Wisconsin