Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

This article reports on sports policy of the U.S. Administration. The reformers want to weed out the pros and semi-pros and leave the game only to students in good standing. However, many an athlete who has been barred from competition because of failing behind in his studies has continued to do badly even when relieved of the responsibilities of football. Football is such an exciting game that no man can go through a season and give more than a perfunctory amount of attention to his classroom work. The same folk who invented the comforting fallacy that fish do not feel the hook have also popularized the notion that healthy young men love to meet in vital combat on the gridiron. But every inquire has tended to prove that college football ins not enjoyable to those who compete.