Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainment of the spectators and sport which is run for the pleasure of the players. For when the spectators own the sport, as they now own intercollegiate football, the players are professionalized regardless of how they are recruited or subsidized, regardless of whether they play for dear old Rutgers, or for cheers and newspaper headlines, or for membership in fraternities, or for a head start in business afterward. When the spectators own the sport the players don't own it. They don't play the game for its own sake. They are entertainers. And out of that fundamental fact flows...