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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 sign college students prior to their graduation. This action is appreciated by college men throughoutthe country, who are averse to the exploitation of the men who achieve distinction in college athletic circles.Clevenger’s letter to Hulbert onbehalf of the conference was occasioned by an overture to GeorgeSpradling of Purdue, Big Ten basket ball ace, to play in the National A.A. U. Basket Ball Tournament at Kansas City, and by the action of the Illinois Athletic Club in taking on a European trip Herb Schwartze of the University of Wisconsin.The suggestion to Hulbert that you might care to call the attention of your clubs to the desirability of not enrolling conference athletes for A. A. U. competition, until they havegraduated, was answered yee-terday by Hulbert with the statement that the proposal was “unreasonable” and that the situation called for no corrective measure by theA. A. U. *
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1926
Page 49
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