Show Rulers Fooled Football a Racket By BARTON DARTON HOVELL FOOTBALL in American colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges took a rap from John R. R Tunis funis when he lie wrote an article in inthe inthe inthe the American 1 Mercury magazine for November entitled u More Pa Pay for College Football Stars Inthis Inthis In Inthis this frank and revealing article Mr Tunis gives reasons why the players players play play- ers themselves should be paid since football in colleges is a business proposition anyway By lly H agreeing to sell seH the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic Refining Company Compan the ex- ex e rights to broadcast its football games this fall Yale has definitely taken a reaching far-reaching step stel in athletics At last we ha have haan an old fashioned university admitting open openly 1 what has long been a fact that college football is a racket Yale Vale is cashing in on this racket Yale Talc intends to get gel her cut A great reat educational institution is finaH finally a spade a spade spade spade- and a football a golden egg RIGHT HIGHT NOW NOY it seems to me is the opportunity for those really realI really real real- realI I I ly care about American amateur athletics to speak up Yale's action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion tosses the whole problem out in the open where it belongs The next step is obviously an avowed cash payment to athletes who furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish the by which the Atlantic Refining company can afford afford afford af af- af- af ford to hand over O to the Yale Athletic Association Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps this is the end of hypocrisy the end of professional teams passing passing passing pass pass- ing as amateurs the end of the vast American racket of college sports spotts N Now ow we can sec see where we are going The rhe colleges are frankly out for the dough They have given iven up the simon simon- pure pretense and admit they want vant the money Alt It has been an open secret for several se years ears that certain highly college teams or rather one or two members of these teams have ha been reached by gamblers Are games thrown Yes sometimes Everybody E knows it and admi admits s it except it-except except a few writing sports-writing ostriches or adolescent alumni THE TIIE TRADITIONAL hypocrisies hypocrisies hypo hypo- of American life are to be e found ever they are bad enough without corrupting school school- bo boys s If we cant can't adopt a realistic realistic realistic realis realis- tic attitude toward such an in inconsequential inconsequential incon incon- on sequential thing as football how can we as a ration hope to be realistic realistic realistic real real- toward war or or politics or any great problem of the moment Mr Tunis I lists ts the colleges of the United States in three classes the I. I amateur true semi professional and the professional There arc are no members of the Rocky Mounta t l conference named in the article |