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...Grutzner and Berman match each other as the top men in the quarter mile event, where Packard and McGrath follow. McGrath may go into the half later, but Joe Walsh can almost equal his quarter performance...
...scandals dredged up in the college basketball fix investigation (TIME, Feb. 26 et seq.) prompted the New York Times to take a long (20 columns) look at "the impact of athletics on education." Times Reporter Charles Grutzner, working with twelve bird-dogging assistants, spent 3½ weeks covering 40 college campuses. By last week he had flushed a covey of shockers...
Wherever the newsmen went, they found a depressingly recurrent pattern of "free rides" for good basketball and football players who were given "large cash payments, clothing and automobiles as inducements to enroll." The colleges, Grutzner found, do not wait around for athletes to come knocking at the door. High-pressure recruiting is part & parcel of the system of big-money college athletics...
...Grutzner uncovered the story of one "prairie university" which "took a planeload of New England high-school athletes halfway across the country to inspect the plant and 'meet the boys.' " Another college has 140 special athletic scholarships, which pay $55-a-month living expenses to athletes, $75 to married...
There were some exceptions. Athletes get no special consideration in the Midwest's Big Ten. At Northwestern, for example, 4.6% of the student body are athletes, who get only 3.6% of the scholarships. Grutzner also found that the colleges were not always to blame for the recruiting, subsidizing and win-at-all-costs spirit. Often it was "a tug of war, with educators pitted against Old Grads and local businessmen [and] the educators lost ground to those who put a Bowl bid above a Phi Beta Kappa...