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Show con ACTS of oi m Wisconsin's Coach Accuses Champions of Insults and Bad Conduct i MADISON. Wis.. Jan 6. The break In liig Ten football relations between i'-eensin a id i 1il.' .-' universities became more acute today with ft slate-merit slate-merit from Coach John It. Richards, ot Isconsln, Intimating that he would resign If Ohio Suite is over again put on the Wisconsin football achedule. Tll!l. EUJZD ( HAliGl S Rloharda' statemenl expressc-d hla "personal disappointment" o er failure to arrange a game with Ohio Stale for 1021. declaring "ether Wisconsin men agr with me that wc did not get fair dealing" Thinly veiled charges of unsports-1 unsports-1 manlike tactics at Hie Wisconsin- Jhlo J State game last fall constitute the main , reason of Hlchard.' declaration that "no team I coach will ever play hlo State" "Football is onlv worth while as an Intercollegiate spurt when mutual regard re-gard and Bportamahahip prevail. There ha often been discernible in the middle mid-dle w st a disposition, on the lurt of Institutions just arriving athletically, i to conside: athletlr.s a standard of ex-ceMence ex-ceMence in the wholo gamut of uni-Ivcraity uni-Ivcraity dutlea INsi i TS I ' Isi rOKS. "They indulge In a speclea of self-ladulatlon self-ladulatlon and lose sight of m iy things U :entlal Visiting coaches are treated i to insulting remarks, islting playora I are subjected lo abuse from the slu-: slu-: dent . the ililng team Is hedged In i on the sldi- lines by a crowd wearing Bid line badges while vacant seats 'exist In the stande; the officials are Instructed nni (jr-'-v. Innten; tho pres-s jiil'.es to ridicule tl'e members of vls- King teams and wax factious about !h"ir natlonallt all of which lo per-ihaps per-ihaps a phase, but most conference universities have long since passed it I Wisconsin taw all this at Ohio last j fall. "Football Is fine game, but It Is only a game Wisconsin so regards II and keeps It subordinate to 'required unlverelt) work and will allow lis team no foolish notions or national asp Ira - Hons Or const Jaunts and we could have had the latter." |