Show Time for Housecleaning Here When Court Rules Player is Pro Maybe this incident is not important and maybe there will be no but in a district court in Colorado a couple of days ago a Denver university football player was awarded workmen's compensation for an injury suffered in spring football The reason he was awarded the decision was that the court ruled he was employed by the university to play He testified that sometimes he did nothing to earn his money at a so-called part-time job other than play and that to keep the job he had to keep playing A lot of indictments have been brought in the press against professionalism in college and the papers have con- a good many schools and conferences for their disregard of the rules of amateurism that supposedly govern college Thase newspaper decisions can be ignored by the because the papers lack authority as legal judges of college But how the can ignore a court decision which states that a student in a university was hired as a football player is beyond There must be some action taken on the Of course this isn't the only violation of amateurism in the or even in the but since the authorities seem to evade launching an extensive investigation of the present structure and state of college perhaps the investigation of isolated cases such as this one will force a full-scale Newspapers have so far been unsuccessful in agitating for a full-scale Perhaps a campaign in which names are named and amounts received for activity disclosed will clean up the under-the-table dealings of college Even the movies have attempted to investigate and reveal some of the professionalism in football with the recently released It seems everybody wants an Now perhaps the decision of a district court will provide the impetus to get one John F. |