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Show Sportlight SportlightBy By Crantland Grantland Rice RiceThe RiceThe The Danger Zone Pay Cor for forCollege forCoUege College Football Playcra Players De Dc Dcbated DCbated bated Reasonable Bounds BoundsAnd BoundsAnd And the Commercial SideLOS Side SideLOS LOS ANGELISIn ANGELES-In ANGELES In ANGELES ANGELIS : -In In - In the active activeI activepresence activepresence I presence of some 400 famous football footballcoaches footballcoaches footballcoaches coaches and athletic d rectors from fromall fromall fromall all over he map I have been trymg trying trymgto tryingto tryingto to get some group to answer one or ortwo ortwo ortwo two questions queshons- queshons questions- queshonsHas questionsHas - Has football moved movedInto movedinto movedinto Into the danger zone of proselytmg proselyting proselytmgand proselytingand proselytingand and pay for athletes ' ' ? Has the thecommercIal thecommercial thecommercial commercIal side grown too lmpor impor lmportant important important9 important9Most tant ' Most of them tell you their um urn umverslt urnversit universit verslt versit es give a certa n number of ofathletic ofathletic ofathletic athletic scholarships and try to pro provide provide provide vide jobs-but jobs but jobs - but nothing nothmg more Yet YetIt Yetit Yetit It is a well known tact fact that any anynumber anynumber anynumber number of universities umversltlcs or their ath athlet athlet athlet let c associations have from $10 10 $ 000 000to 000to 000to to $15 15 $ 000 to help roundup corral and andcapture andcapture andcapture capture star h gh school talent from fromcoast fromcoast fromcoast coast to coastThe coastThe coast coastThe The pursuit of ot the elusive ball car carrler carrier carner rler rier the crack forward passer or orthe orthe orthe the big linemen emerging emergmg from fromschool fromschool fromschool school play is the keenest I ve ye everseen everseen ever everThere seen seenThere There is another school of ot thought thoughtthat thoughtthat thoughtthat that believes the football player playerdoesn playerdoesn playerdoesn doesn t get nearly enough They Theytell Theytell Theytell tell you he furnishes furmshes the battered batteredbOdy batteredbody batteredbody bOdy for the billion dollar industry industryI I ve ye found tound no coach who believesin bel1evesm bel1eves believes m in paying paymg any football player any anyform anyform anyform form of salary Yet in m one way or oranother oranother oranother another I know many are paid It ItIS Itis Itis IS entirely too complicated for my mylimited mylimited mylimited limited bramMaybe brainMaybe brain bram brainMaybe Maybe there isn t any real danger dangerzone dangerzone dangerzone zone But football is too great a agame agame agame game it affects aITects directly too many manyAmencan manyAmerican manyAmerican Amencan American kids including mc1udmg the h gh ghschools ghschools ghschools schools to move along unguarded unguardedThe unguardedThe unguardedThe The count goes into mto the millionsOne millions mlll10ns millionsOne One answer mdY may m y be the different differentconferences differentconferences differentconferences differentconferencesAs conferences conferencesAs As it is now the Ivy league has hasgone hasgone hasgone gone into mto a covey of ot its own It Itrarely Itrarely Itrarely rarely leaves the fold Try Tr : ! to shp slip shpsome slipsome slipsome some outsider into mto an Ivy league leaguecontest leaguecontest leaguecontest contest The Big Ten has done doneabout doneabout doneabout about the same outside of ot playmg playing playmgNotre playingNotre playingNotre Notre Dame and members of the theB theBgSix theB B BgSix g Six SLX SLXAs SixAs BgSixAs As one of the Ivy league coaches coachestold coachestold coachestold told me We have Harvard Yale YalePrmceton YalePrinceton YalePrmceton Prmceton Princeton Cornell Pennsylvama Pennsylvania PennsylvamaDartmouth PennsylvaniaDartmouth PennsylvaniaDartmouth Dartmouth Columbia Brown Army Armyand Armyand Armyand and Navy Syracuse and Colgate Colgateare Colgateare are 0 K Who else do we need need7We ' We can t play everybodyThe everybodyThe everybody everybodyThe The Pacific Pac1fic conference and the theSouthwest theSouthwest theSouthwest Southwest are hanging hangmg together togetherThey togetherThey togetherThey They play most of their thell ' games gamesamong gamesamong gamesamong among themselves themselvesIn In spite of ot all this I have found founda a strong feeling feehng ot of distrust when it itcomes itcomes itcomes comes to the matter of proselytmg proselyting proselytmgand proselytingand proselytingand and taking tah.mg tahmg . care of star players playersIn In the last few weeks I ve ye cov coy covered coyered covered ered several thousands of square squaremles squaremiles squaremiles mles miles ] through hot football terrItory terrItoryToday territoryToday territoryToday Today almost all aU territory terntory is football footballhot footballhot footballhot footballhotI hot hotI I ve ye heard over 40 stories stones of ot lugh high lughschool highschool highschool school stars offered oITered board lodg ng ngscholarships ngscholarships ngscholarships scholarships and a fairly substan substant t al wage I know part of this 1S is 1Sbunk isbunk isbunk bunk . . I also know part of it is true trueAlmost trueAlmost trueAlmost Almost every high school kid llkes likes llkesto likesto likesto to boast ot of the offers he has had hadMost hadMost hadMost Most of them are baloney But not notaU notall notall aU all of them A kid likes to brag bragI I asked one veteran athletic dl di dlrector director director rector just how much money he fig figured figured figured ured colleges coUeges were putting puttmg out or orglvmg orgiving orgiving glvmg giving away for football talent one oneway oneway oneway way or anotherThere anotherThere another anotherThere There are only about 100 1(1) 11 ( ) colleges collegesor or universities un1versltles he said which can canafford canafford canafford afford to meet the competition competitionTheIr competitionTheir competitionTheir TheIr funds range from $8 8 $ $ 000 a year yearto yearto yearto to y0 $ ? ' O 0 000 a year My guess would wouldbe wouldbe wouldbe be around $1000 1000 $1 1 $ 000 000 This isn t se so semuch somuch somuch much when you figure 40 000 000 0(1) 01 ( ) peo peopIe peopie peopie pIe look at football tootball each fall-that fall that fallthatfootball fallthatfootball tall - thatfootball football is easily easlly a billion b1.ll1on b1ll1on . dollat dollar dollatgame dollargame dollargame game tor for all concerned-colleges concerned colleges concernedcollegeshotels concerned - - collegeshotels hotels railroads planes tickets t1ckets andso andso and so on I - The main mam maw fault goes back to the thecolleges thecolleges thecolleges colleges and the universities The Thed Thed Thed d reeling rectmg resting people are the ones who whohave whohave whohave have turned football into a b1llion billion billiondollar b1lliondollar billiondollar dollar industry mdustry They are the ones oneswho oneswho oneswho who have stood back of all the bowls bowlsand bowlsand bowlsand and stadia They are the respon responsible responBible responsible sible Bible people It is something sometlung border bordermg bordermg bordering mg on a crime crune trine to start blaming the thecoaches thecoaches thecoaches coaches coachesI I 111 III Il , give Ive you one : answer lDswer that will willhcp willhelp willhelp hcp help ] some a prominent promment athletic dl d1 dlrector d1rector director rector said Pass a rule that no noteam noteam noteam team can play over two men who whohve wholive wholive hve live over 300 miles mdes away from the theuniversIty theuniversity theuniversity universIty they play for Don t thmk think thmky thinkwe thinkvc y . we , e get fooled when we see teams teamsWIth teamswith teamswith WIth eight or ten players on thesquad the thesquad thesquad squad who come from 800 to 1 500 500miles 500miles 500miles miles away And there are plenty plentyof plentyof of these theseI I st U 11 ll think the main maID answer has hasto hasto hasto to be on the scholastic : or scholar scholarslup scholarship scholarship slup ship side This Is where the final finalsegrcgatmg finalsegregating finalsegregating segrcgatmg segregating will take placeWho place placeWho Who run our colleges and univer univerSit universit universit Sit es ? Presidents and boards of oftrusteesor oftrusteesor oftrustees the oaches coaches and andathletic andathletic andathletic trustees-or trustees or - - or football football-coaches football coaches - athletic d rectors9 rectors ' ) Most ol of the therchedules therchedules theschedules rchedules today are money sched ached schedules achedules schedules ules Why Why9 ' Because too many Un um umvcrsit univcrsit ! vcrslt vcrsit es have built buIt ! up expensIve expensIverlants expensivePlants expensiveplants rlants Plants that must be payed tor for forWho forWho torWho Who pays tor for all thiS this9 ' The foot football football tootball ball players playersr r ' The football players playersand playersand playersand and U tI e a coachesTeams coachesTeams coaches coachesTeams Teams are given schedules they theyhave theyhave theyhave have no chance to handle on even eventerms eventerms terms erms |