Show Arkansas Senator Blasts Colleges For Corrupting Athletes Students By G G. G Milton Kelly I I I IV V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 1 27 J A Senator William Fulbright D. D Ark accused the colleges Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day of c corrupting their hired athletes and student bodies with the cynical immoral doctrine that one must win wain at any cost lie He criticized the schools and their alumni alike showering on them blame for the time recent college college col col- col- col college lege basketball bribe scandals centered in New York The Arkansas senator charged colleges use hired players make a mockery of the while spirit of amateur sports and must share the blame when scandal results A time one-time college football star himself and later a university president Fulbright spoke his views in a speech prepared for Senate delivery Tuesday lie He related his criticism to an anI I appeal for a review re of the moral standards of oC government and for congressional action to help our country cOUltry reaffirm or reestablish a higher concept of public conduct con con- duct Our colleges under extreme pressure from the alumni Fulbright Fulbright Ful- Ful I Ful-I I bright declared have become so intent upon winning football and basketball games that they use any means to gain their ends They hire players who are not bona hona fide students he said and thus make a mockery a farce of the whole concept of amateur sport for the health and entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- of our young men They corrupt not only the hired players but also the entire student body who learn from their elders the cynical immoral doctrine that one must win atall at al atall all costs A product by-product of this doctrine the necessity for big money leads I naturally to betting and to the shocking episode of the widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread bribery of basketball players players play play- ers in New YorkI York I find it difficult to blame the players Fulbright said They are arc but following a logical sequence se se- sequence se- se quence of influence beginning with the corruption of the sport at its source by pressure from the alumni Back in m the Fulbright was a halfback for the University of Arkansas u under n d e r coaches George McClaren l and Francis Schmidt He still has a couple of trick knees as souvenirs of the gridiron lIe He captained the university tennis squad learned a good goodgame goodgame goodgame game of golf gulf and nd as a Rhodes scholar scholm at Oxford won a berth berthon on an British all-British lacrosse team that toured the United States He lie was president of the University University Uni Uni- of or Arkansas from 1939 I until 1941 |