New York University School of Education - Education Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Over-Emphasis OW that another season of football has passed, we hear that sport being verbally dragged over the coals again, this time by no less a personage than Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Probably because it was he who started it this year, we have heard more than ever about it. In fact, some writers treat it as though it were a scoop A little common sense and exercise of memory will bring to light the fact that every year there has been some sort of post-season rumpus. It's not new. It's merely a boring repetition of the pendulum swing to the opposite extreme- no gate money. To us it seems rather foolish. Elimination of the gate receipts would, for all prac- tical purposes, kill the other athletic activities. Except for basketball in the Middle West and the East, there is no other sport that seems to be able to support itself, let alone others. The large gate receipts have more than justified themselves. How could the alumni ever hope to support college sports as well as football does? Why limit the audience to grads and undergrads? Is each college game a secret ritual? If the people wish to pay as they do and feel that they are getting value for their money, why not continue to let them? It's not just the thirty men on the squad, but the whole under- graduate body which benefits by the sports and intra-murals supported by football income. If we cut out proselyting and discontinue athletic scholarships, then the root of whatever evil there is will have been eliminated. It's alumni meddling that brought about that situation. It's the so-called paid athlete who is supposed to give one insti- tution an advantage over another. Let's put him out and we'll have better games and possibly bigger receipts. There are plenty of good men in college not only willing but anxious to go through the drudgery of practice for just the glory of it. . l8I

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VARSITY BASKETBALL 1930-31