Word: streits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice before, the sham and shame of commercialized college athletics had been lambasted by Manhattan General Sessions Judge Saul Streit. Last week the judge was indignant once again. Before the court were three basketball players of Kentucky University's "fabulous five," young men who had proudly worn the U.S. Olympic emblem in the 1948 games. The three had pleaded guilty to "fixing" a game for gamblers...
Sharply and concisely, Judge Streit summarized a "heinous, degrading and shocking" picture: "I found that intercollegiate basketball and football at Kentucky have become highly systematized, professionalized and commercialized enterprises. I found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, 'Illegal' recruiting, a reckless disregard of their physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students, demoralization of the athletes by the coach...
...CLARENCE STREIT Washington...
Feinberg will be sentenced by Judge Saul Streit, who recently issued a bitter denunciation of the present condition of sports...
Owen's whole attitude, according to Judge Streit, seemed to be that basketball was more important" than anything else. Once, he even advised a player not to honor an out-of-state subpoena to appear as a witness at a murder trial, because of a conflicting basketball schedule. Said Streit: "The inference here is clear that the president of the university impressed the athlete that it was more important to play basketball that day than to serve the administration of justice in a murder case. Such an impact on the athlete's moral fiber may prove irreparable...