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Show Monej i" a splendid thing To gel. to spend and store I Lut when It's paid to amateurs Theh college daye ai o'ei. I But somehow schoolboy stars don't fall Until with books they re through. They tell the pros to look elsewhere And keep their honor true. The bought-and-paid-for players Ain't what they used to be 1 The tans don't like 'em near a. well To furnish football glee Tne j.ro game is a deadly hug For college chaps lo face - For If they take a single jit" They're marked by dire disgrace. ! About this time of the veai we hear of college athletes appearing as professional pro-fessional football flayers. Then college col-lege plaing being ended, some of them jump at the chance of making some money through their skill on Cue gridiron. This year there have not been so many cases of this kind. The penalty Is usually the forfeiture of the college letter, which is an honor not easily given up. A college star can make as high as $300 a game playing professional football. The training rules and practice prac-tice periods are not exacting and the money is quite a pick up for a young man Just out of college. There are two aides lo every question, ques-tion, we. suppose, but the romance and glamour around college football Isii'f going to be helped by the departure of campus heroes to professional gridirons. from his last t ollep,. game to some ' pro eleven Is open to the suspicion that ho was not a pure amateur before i he jumped. I j Certainly he In no amateur if he 'made a written or verbal contract vvlth the pro eleven before his ploylnc duys as a collegian. were over. ! The professional atmosphere Isi deadly to the college game. The fad jlhut football is Incoming B bic mOlie maker for college athletic associations does not help the game any. Money Is a nice thing to have plenty of, but big pate receipts and the leaping leap-ing of athlet.-s ff, the professional ranks In the long run will not help any college. |