Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tatum added, "Just check up on the Harvard football team--see how many of the boys on the roster have scholarships. The only difference is, they're not called athletic scholarships...
Yesterday, Tatum denied ever having made the statement. He said, however, he strongly objected to having the label of "pro" slapped on his Maryland eleven by the New England press. This, he added, was the reason for his citing the case of Tarasovich...
...Tatum mentioned the case of a 6 ft. 8 in. basketball player from Pelham, N.Y., who he claims is now at Harvard. "I'm sure that if he hadn't been 6 ft. 8 in. tall, Harvard alumni wouldn't have chased him. Why, I was in that boys's house the same night some alumni from Harvard and Princeton and Yale were. Harvard get him . . . and that's no special case, either...
...school," Tatum continued, "that has a football team will send alumni out to recruit players. But up there, they have to send alumni out to find men because they can't say 'athletic scholarship,' and down here we can send coaches out to get players. We see to it that we wind up with two good guards and a big line, in addition to a good backfield. But alumni send in flashy backs and big ends, mostly, for the football team. So in the end, we wind up with a better balanced, more solid team. That's the only difference...
...Tatum outlined a theoretical case. "Can you tell me the difference here: Take, let's say, Bill Jones, a good athlete, who applies for Harvard. He has the qualifications and gets in--with a scholarship, and studies history. Then there's Bill smith, also, a good ball player, who applies for Maryland. he has the qualifications--it's a C average down here--and gets in with a scholarship and studies to be a physical education teacher. Is one a pro and the other an amateur? It's only a difference in degree. . . . I can't see a single distinction...