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Many an amateur athlete is so only in name. He prefers huge expense accounts to a salary. West Virginia Wesleyan was forced to curtail football because it was learned that players there were receiving financial inducement to represent her on the gridiron. And now it is proposed that Lawrence High School should reward its athletes with scholarships...
...West Virginia. Two weeks ago President Homer Wark of West Virginia Wesleyan said that football in his institute was commercialized, that players were paid in books, room, board, tuition, each one receiving about $500 a year...
...little over a month after the encounter with Dates, the University will take part in the second round of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League's debate. On February 26, there will be a triangular meet with Wesleyan and Brown. The final round, the one which will decide the Intercollegiate Championship, will be held on March 25 with Yale and Princeton...
...recent disclosure it has been shown that athletes at West Virginia Wesleyan have received as much as $500 for their services Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
...minor, and the intramural sports which affect the general student body and are therefore to be encouraged since physical training has properly become a recognized part of the college curriculum. Furthermore, general participation in athletics is an excellent antidote to the spectacle complex. The administration of West Virginia Wesleyan, by curtailing funds for athletics, not only goes far wide of the mark since football is self-supporting but actually opposes a development which promises to accomplish the very reform which inspired its ill-conceived ruling...