Show if 1 Taint aint in College Circles Becoming T 1 Thing ding of Past Special News Service service I GO 0 O. O Nov 1 A A few years jears ago as as' considered quite the proper I tio use the hammer on the I collegiate Conference Athletic ij hand and no foot football ban season ever without a few knocks at that organization Even of the rules of the big ten eldy and autocratic and ite It IJ lee e considered form to in- in it if upon occasion But But all II I C. C A. A A. A has fulfilled theof the of Which it was formed and Uhan an justified its existence tI on was as formed in the thes s sl f f Middle Western some of the many evils cur- cur thit time Professionalism troubled itself itsel to stay under sely ting was practiced openly I colleges and Unfair meth- meth ery manner were vere common in ins s st j SportsmanshIp as ap ap- I the athletics of ot these J fa d misnomer as one now un- un the She word But the big ten till un has much worst wont to do has n nde de an al excellent start along 4 ON WANE on in tho the sense that ath- ath eing ng for various colleges may mayn n time lime in their career played exists in isolated In- In nd wiil l exist just as lo long as nt an get Jet coin out of athletic I uY the sort of professional professional- 1 exists nowadays is of the t uch as a football or basc- basc base ho t t ho has played et shall ll or the athlete who has prize at some picnic u ut land and out professionalism of e being paid by the college I Ute J athletic association for fornas has nas almost vanished from the horizon ng still Is practiced and will willed ed J as long as the tho graduate lege thinks that college Is the thc ther r of man It U is humanly Im- Im stop the practice of a cot col- late trying to Impress upon prep prep school athlete the ad- ad tA Is particular alma mater could be stopped it would be site ltD do so ISO Nor Is it or groups of alumni beted be- be from ted ted from taking steps to tomake make career reer r of the star prep man It h socially lly and financially But n the sense that unfair reused refused has lias been wiped out ix ten s. s OF COACHES DIFFER methods are in disrepute not hut but among mes- mes The joun younger er gener generation eing tutored under more hoie thoe of old Ideals The older ones Mf have perforce accepted them or got ot I out f of the b coaching game Methods of some of the coaches border on the unfair un un- fair but these are not the coaches who are admired They may be successful In a measure but they never will ill enjoy enjoy en en- joy the success of the men who have put sportsmanship above victory This was strikingly In Illustrated in a re recent recent recent re- re cent conversation with a coach on the even of a championship game This coach was leading his team into a a. game where the odds were all against him On On the opposing team was a a. player of or I national prominence who unquestionably has far from a simon pure amateur status The writer knew this and he knew that the coach of the other team knew it So he lie expressed astonishment that no protest had been filed tIIe COACH REFUSES TO PROTEST I wont won't make any protest was the reply Coach of the opposing opposing opposing op op- op- op posing team knows just as much about this fellow as r I do If It he wants to use him that is his affair Imagine a a. statement like mat enat twenty years ago when the protest was re regarded regarded regarded re- re as one of the regular preliminaries preliminaries narles of ot a football game But that Is the spirit of modern college college college col col- col- col lege athletics and it has been fostered largely by the once berated conference In striving for recognition teams not holding membership in the conference have been forced to live up to conference conference conference confer confer- ence standards of sportsmanship or forfeit forfeit for for- feit felt their right to recognition If an organization like the conference had been formed in the East at the time the Western a association was organized there probably would be a great deal I Iless less distrust between rival teams than I there has been for the last three or four years I ONE REFORM THAT IS NEEDED I What Shat hat friends of the conf conference believe believe believe be be- lieve is the greatest need of the association asso asso- 1 elation at present Is II a greater demo demo- Any college which shows I by its record that it is willing to abide by conference regulations should be admitted admitted admitted ad ad- to the association without delay de de- de- de lay layThe The Idea of classing teams like Purdue Purdue Pur Pur- due Iowa Indiana and one or two others as big teams to tae trie exclusion of ot schools like Nebraska Notre Dame Michigan 1 Aggles and more recently Detroit Detroit De De- troit Is little short of ot ridiculous It is isone isone isone one of ot the few reforms needed In the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic association association association asso asso- to make it the most valuable sport controlling body in the United States |