Abstract

Halfbacks Carry the Mortgage

For a time, this autumn, college football seemed to be caught in one of the waves of public morality which have been advancing for a decade or so. It is hard to argue with a good, loud vow to be pure, but carried into college football this sort of thing could have been tragic, at least to those of us who like football skillful, fast and exciting. Fortunately for spectators, by now it has become clear as a golden autumn afternoon that the colleges did not intend to drive the halfbacks out of their admission offices, afterall. They were only pretending out there on the Pacific Coast and at Ann Arbor, Michigan. For after such phrases as "dual morality must be eliminated" echoed into silence early in the season, students once again were confined to classrooms and the distinction between football players at ambitious colleges and the professionals in the National Football League remained small: the college players would never accept checks.