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Show 13 The competition for supremacy has become too keen in college athletics. . The desire to win has become the paramount Issue. Coaches and alumni alum-ni In an effort to bring about that result have seemingly overstepped themselves. Sportsmanship has been relegated to the sideline.-- Victory at any cost, financial or otherwise, seems to be ihe aim of a majority of the colleges. col-leges. . . First came the charges of professionalism profes-sionalism against the Lafayette college col-lege eleveil. A number of eastern critics refused to glo Lafayette the rating It deserved, because of rumors that some of the athletes were not In tho best of standing as amateur-. . , h Lafayette invited an inquiry Into tho charges. It was held, and as 1 recall It. the athletes under suspicion sus-picion were whitewashed. . . The scene then shifted to the west. For tho past month sensation after sensation has been sprung, involving a number of the leading athletes of the west. Most of them have been declared ineligible. . . Recently Coach Rockne of Notre Dame, whose ti ams were hard hit. said "Professionalism Is the btggest menace of college athletics. Unless the tendency in that direction is curtailed cur-tailed It may be necessary to abolish football as an intercollegiate sport." ... i..mg before tho collegiate expose. Coach Yost of Michigan, in an inter- lew said to me: ' Football Is being overdone by many colleges Th-- Impressfon is ;i owing that students go to college to make the football team Men go to college for an education. Tho col-leges col-leges make football possible, not foot-hall foot-hall the colleges. Sonio coaches are overlooking that fact." ... For years A. M. Langf ord has ben recojrnlzed as one of the best fool-hall fool-hall officials In the country. Lang-ford Lang-ford prucllcally quit officiating in 1921 because he said the treatment now being accorded an official was not what it should be. |