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Scraps of truth, however, do come out of Mr. Tunis' athletic plant is dependent on football gate receipts. "Athletics for all" do not come out of the air, and certainly Mr. Conant has not as yet collected his endowment fund for athletics.
The absurdity of any such statement is apparent to anyone who has followed Harvard's football history. The record of the H.A.A. is clean, and that organization can stick its chin out and invite inspection from any quarter. Mr. Tunis should be thankful that he was treating 99 other Colleges...
The ultimate way out is of course, an endowment sufficiently large to eradicate the necessity of high priced football tickets and the dependence of Athletic Associations on gate receipts. Meantime, one-lunged writers of Mr. Tunis' ilk should take a look around and check their facts before pounding their typewriters...
Footballs are golden eggs, "shamateurism" is rampant in American football, and Harvard's eleven is semi-pro, according to the Class of 1911's tennis expert, John Roberts Tunis, who writes in the current issue of the American Mercury.
Mr. Tunis' second bid for publicity in six months, his first being the book "Was College Worth While," which caused a considerable uproar last summer, the current article "More Pay for College Football stars" claims that Harvard, along with others, subsidized teams to make its athletic corporations pay. His only...