Word: streits
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...fortnight after he sentenced five college basketball players to prison for accepting gamblers' bribes, Manhattan Judge Saul S. Streit handed down his judgment against three others. The players, all from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., had admitted accepting an offer of $500 apiece for throwing a Madison Square Garden game. But this time all got off with suspended sentences. The real culprits, according to Judge Streit, were not present in his courtroom...
...typical example of commercialism and overemphasis-with some of the attendant evils: illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official, and impairment of the standards of the integrity of the college." More to blame than the players, said Streit, was President David B. Owen, a onetime public relations man at Bradley who took over as head of the university in 1946 and "who no doubt confused public relations with academic administration...
President Owen not only accompanied the team on almost every trip, said angry Judge Streit, but also allowed the local Boosters Club to subsidize players. One of the players, William Mann, said that he had received at least $300 from the club; another, All-American Eugene Melchiorre, told how club representatives would pass out $10 to $15 to players whenever the team went on a trip. The club recruited players, paid their tuitions, and lent them money. To all this Owen acquiesced, thus giving "official university sanction to [the players'] moral debasement...
Judge Saul S. Streit gave suspended sentences to three ex-Bradley basketball players in New York yesterday, while blaming their college's president, David Owen, for a system "which set athletic success above education...
Individuals v. Policy. Judge Streit's blast brought some blunt and immediate answers. "It isn't any of the judge's business in the first place," yelped S.M.U. Athletic Director Matty Bell, "and in the second place, these scholarships cover all sports, not just football." Maryland President Dr. Harry ("Curley") Byrd, an old footballer, frankly admitted the presence of 60 out-of-staters on undefeated Maryland's huge, 97-man football squad. "What of it?" Byrd growled. Basketball Coach Clair Bee, now acting president of Long Island University and a particular target of Judge Streit...