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(By the United Press)By HENRY L. TARRELL Staff Correspondent. ^NEW YORK,; Feb. 18—All thecollege '‘doctors” and the trained• s • .minds of the intercollegiate athletics are seeking to find what ails collegiate football.Surprising revelations this winterof wholesale disregard of amateurrules among the star athelets of big universities have caused university heads to regard the situation as a critical problem.Every reason under the tsun has been * attirbuted as the cause, but it remained for George Brooke, former Penn star and eoach at Swarthmore, to kick in with the most novel theory.Lots of the modern ills are being laid at the feet of jazz and Brooke claims • that to be the cancer that is eating into the great gridiron sport.“The rich men's sons, the hoys with the mony, do not go out for thecol-lege teams any longer,” he says. “The automobile, the eaberet, the jazzeries —all these have given those boys with money something to keep them interested and put them in the company of the other sex.“In the old days, if you wanted to shine with the ladies, you were a baseball player, a football player or an athlete of standing. But not today.”Brook’s theory that students of less means are now ruling the athletic world and that the temptation of easy money, which would not be considered by a member of a rich family, is causing players to forget ethics of the game and wander from the course of strict amateurism. Laxity in the enforcement of the rules prohibiting the playing of summer baseball for money is blamed by the majority of officials for the present conditions. Athletes have come to believe that the offense consists not in playing in prohibited company, but in being caught at it. When they found it easy to get-away with summer baseball, they thought the chances of being caught no greater if they engaged in a little football game or so on the side.It is generally agreed. that the Illinois and Notre Dame players did not participate in that now famous“kick” game through any inclination of crookedness. It seems from the testimony of the players involved that they looked upon it as a lark, and when they learned of the big betting' on the* game they wanted to get out of it.In casting about for means of correcting the conditions, the wisest of the officials lean to the belief that the cure rests in the men themselves. They think that nothing but an honorable regard of existing rules on the part of athletic students will remove what danger the game has found itsself in from professional affliction.SPECIAL NOTICE.
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Mexia Evening News
Mexia, Texas, US
Sat, Feb 18, 1922
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