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Show COLLEGES URGED TO DROP FOOTBALL HYPOCRISY MASK PITTSBURGH, Dec. 14 (AP) The University of Pittsburgh's first "paid" football player (he's millionaire now) went on the record today in favor of subsidization, declaring he owed "whatever "what-ever material success I may since have attained" to financial help in college. Joseph C Trees, associate of M. L. Benedum In world-wide oil operations, oper-ations, said last night at a Varsity club banquet In honor of Pitt's undefeated un-defeated 1937 grid squad that "subsidisation "sub-sidisation Is eminently sound and fair," provided: That education Is the primary objective; that the boy really wants an education, and that the institution institu-tion sees to it that he either gets that education or is removed from its student rolls." Declaring there Is nothing new about the controversy surrounding subsidisation of athletes, Trees added: "To my own personal knowledge. It is almost 60 years old, because when I was playing with the Pitt teams of 1891, '93 and '93, certain alumni groupa of Harvard, Yale and Princeton sought to persuade me to enter their alma maters and J their offera were tempting." He recalled that "certain alumni of old Western university of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania (now Pitt) paid my tuition tui-tion and contributed toward other expenses incident to obtaining a college degree." Trees referred to the plan of strict amateurism advocated by James Hagan, Pitt's athletic director, and said: "My plea is not for the adoption or rejection of any policy, but that the educational institutions of the country drop the mask of hypocrisy about college football." |