Word: hubbardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubbard still has a soft spot for his old alma mammy. After discussing subsidization of players, he writes, "Some colleges are very sensitive on this point--Harvard for instance. They have a rule that no coach is allowed to speak at any preparatory school. They scrutinize every aplication for admission...
...nice to see our great educational institutions running one of the biggest rackets in the country . . . Football is the milch cow of college athletics." So writes Charles J. Hubbard '24, former Harvard grid star, in an article in the current issue of Liberty entitled "Why Not Pay the Football Players...
Decrying the introduction of big business methods into college football, Hubbard writes, "The men who do all the work get nothing, while the sport as a whole is just as professional as it is possible to make...
...Hubbard doesn't object to professionalization as such. "The only thing which is really wrong is that football is a professional business which pretends to be amateur," he admits. His solution is open subsidization of players. "Some of the money, at least, would go where it ought to go--to the men who earn it," he concludes...
Trott's boat: Nants, Brown, Richardson, Bodell, Smith, Geist, Hubbard, Smith...