Word: post-season
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...point is that so long as bowl games and post-season tournaments offer the lure of money and glory for winning teams, and so long as football and other sports are organized on a year-round basis, an "enforcible" code of admissions or scholarships will be virtually impossible to achieve. The evils in football are not surface stains caused by a few evil practitioners, as Mr. Jordan implies. They result from the bigness of the sport, and so long as the sport is big name, big news, and big money, the evils will be with...
...University seems to be gripped in a wave of post-season munificence. Student porters have received a pay boost, undergraduates in the College employment plan a preview of things to come, and the weary in inmates of Widener a row of fluorescent lights. But it the Undergraduate Activities Committee's concessions to the Student Council rules petition were an attempt to get on the bandwagon, they were too little and too late...
...fredom, and the best that regulations can do is to create a situation where the temptations to honesty will flourish and the temptations to dishonesty will wither. If coaches are put more in the position of professors and judged more on their teaching ability than on "the results," if post-season games and tournaments are cut out, and if sports are relegated in every way possible to the status of an adjunct of education, then the atmosphere will be much clearer and healthier. There will still be cases, of course, where eager alumni provide funds secretly to put outstanding athletes...
...slashing list of proposals made at the existing college athletic practices, the presidents recommended the abolishment of all post-season games of any sort, and suggested that both basketball and baseball games be confined within prescribed dates...
...convention will probably take stands on such--by now familiar--issues as post-season games, two-platoon football and spring practice. It will, however, be the first organization with a chance of making its decisions stick on a nationwide basis...