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ottn unui ms grauuanoii,The schools and colleges,” said Mr, Griffith, are developing practically all of the outstanding athletes of the day. In the last Olympics the United States track and field teams won 255 points, all but twenty-one of which were won by athletes developed in the colleges,The athletic directors and coaches in educational institutions *have arranged schedules in which their best men have plenty of opportunity to compete. They believe they are making possible all of the competition that it is desirable for these boys to engage in as long as they are undergraduates. Mr. Hui-bert differs and believes college athletes should compete in A. A. U. basket ball tournaments and trackmeets. In my judgment this is a matter for college men to decide,and not one that concerns any outside organizations.”Assailing Hulbert’s statement thatthe conference admitted inability to control the athletes under its jurisdiction” by appealing to the athletic union to refrain from overtures to undergraduate athjietes,Griffith said:Bill Edwards, President of the American Professional Football League, might have taken the same position. But being a college man he recognized that colleges are competent to provide plenty of competition for their undergraduateathletes and the league has forbidden any professional league, club to
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1926
Page 49
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