COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
Few documents of the kind have caused so much and such prolonged discussion as the report on American college athletics which the Carnegie Foundation issued last October. A fresh impetus was given to it at the recent meeting of the National Collegiate Association, a body representative of most of the chief colleges in the country, when one university president proposed that gate receipts, professional coaches, and subsidies for players should be dispensed with altogether and university sport reorganized upon a purely amateur basis. The proposal was felt, by representatives of some of the larger universities, to be too sweeping, mainly because gate receipts are the chief means they have of financing their athletics. However, the discussion revealed a general determination to introduce practicable reforms in respect, particularly, of methods of recruiting and subsidizing players. Reforms, indeed, have been effected already. The University of Iowa, for example, has repudiated a fund maintained by alumni and local citizens to subsidize athletes at the university and has declared ineligible those who have benefited from it.
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