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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
Published Istani,xeesly during the College year. except on holidays.
by students of The Penneylrani. State College, in the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni. and friends.
Applied for entry as second doss matter at the State College Poet
(Mee, State College, Pa.
THE MANAGING BOARD
HARRY 13. HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM 11. SKIRBLE '36
Editor Business Manager
DON ILD I'. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. ODERHOLTZER '36
Mutinying Editor Circulation Manager
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Sports Edina Advertising Manager
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Assistant Editor Local Advertising Manager
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Assistant Managing Editor ' Credit Manager
CHARLES AL SCHWARTZ JR. '36 • L. MARYBEL CONABEE '36
Assistan . Sposts Editor Women's Editor
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News Editor Women's Managing Editor
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Monagina Editor This Issue._
News Editor This Issue--__
Friday, October 18, 1935
WAKE UP, ALUMNI!
(Continued front Page Onc)
It is not hard to see that this schedule permits little
or no time for study—also one of the fundaniental prin
ciples of Mr. Bezdek's beautiful plan which is interested
in building not only muscles but minds.
Briefly this situation has been brought about by
two factors, the first and most important of which is the
schedule. When this policy of non-subsidization went
into effect, Pre'sident Hetzel stated to the COLLEGIAN,
"It is the policy, however, that as rapidly as is Possible
we shall turn to competitors who are willing to subscribe
to the same measure of good sportsmanship and fair
play as we have established."
That policy has not been followed out.
Year after year, the teams scheduled have been
stronger; With good box office appeal and more or less
frankly subsidized players. And, furthermore, in every
where but President Hetzel's office and in pretty speech
es, the emphasis has been on winning. If the policy
stated . by President Hetzel had been followed out we
would not be playing Pitt, Sybacuse, Villanova, and
Bucknell, let alone trying to beat them.
The second factor is a rssult of the first—if Direc
tor Bezdek's policy of non-subsidization were - to be ear
tied out in full it would mean that there would be no
effort made by the College, students, or alumni to get
athletes to enroll here. In other words, Penn State's
teams would be made up by the "take who comes"
method.
However, in order to present a team that would
make a fair showing against such opponents as Pitt,
Syracuse, and Villanova. Higgins has been forced to re
cruit players by his own ingenuity, and without any
financial aid or sponsorship by the • College;
Because the best he can offer to a player, wlto'has
prbbably releived offers,
other colleges, is the vague and unsupported offer of a
job washing dishes or waiting table for board, Bob
Higgins has been victimized by this vicious policy.
Higgins7ms been criticized by - the alumni, the fac
ulty, and the student body for having unsuccessful foot
ball teams. It has never been Higgins' fault if the
teams were -not what the critics wanted them to be be
cause he has been forced to play subsidized teams with
a team subsidized on one meal a day.
Higgins has been forced to take the rap because the
parties who make up the schedule see fit to contradict
the original purpose and plan of this non-subsidization
policy as set forth by Dr. Hetzel when he said, 'lt is the
policy, however, that as rapidly as is possible we shall
turn to competitors who are willing to subscribe to the
name measure of good sportsmanship and fair play as
we have established."
Three years ago a plan was set up whereby every
third year a fraternity would give an athlete a job
working for his board. The plan worked the first year,
struggled through the second, and died this year because
of the pressing economic situation of nwst of the fra
ternities on this campus. As a result, Bob Higgins has
been forced to find jobs around town so that these boys
will be able to cat more than one meal a clay. On the
Whole, he has, perhaps, been successful, but there are
glaring cases of capable and needed players leaving
school because, among other things, they did not get
enough to eat.
The present situation is an intolerable exploitation
of the football team under the guise of "decency and
progress," "fair play and good sportsmanship;" it is
neither fair to the team nor to Bob Biggins, nor to the
alumni who spend time and money in bringing promis
ing athletes up here, and certainly it is not in accord
with the traditions of this College which, heretofore,
have been based upon a realistic policy and not upon a
wishful hypocrisy and one meal a day.
What can be done about this situation?
The alumni, the students and friends of this Col
lege can unite with the COLLEGIAN in demanding that a
training table, which serves three meals a day through
out the season be established. And in demanding that
the Athletic Association recognize the unfairness of this
situation which has developed because of their efforts to
get big gates without paying anything for them. No ono
can say that it is fair for these boys to work as hard as
college football players must on one meal a day and the
apples they found under the trees around the dormitor
ies as many of them had to do during the first part of
this year.
There is a kitchen and dining room in Varsity hall
which the Athletic Association could put into use im
mediately. It would give these boys three meals a day,
boost their morale 4 thousand per cent, and there would
be no one playing football without enough to eat. It
could be financed by the increased gate and by charging
ten cents for parking.
Heretofore when the situation became half as intol
erable as this one, the coach complained and as a result
had his head chopped off. Bob Higgins has put up
with a situation that no other coach in the country
would accept. He has not complained despite the bur
den he has been forced to carry. And the Penn State
Collegian will not stand by and see another coach have
his head chopped off because of conditions over which
he has no control.
.Tohnson Brenneman 'B7
______ Philip S. Heisler 'B7
thirty.
Since that time Penn State's* athfetic
been carried on in a manner above fear and "above .
reproach, but without outstanding success, despite
gloviing prophecies condemning the old maxim of vir
tue being its own reward. So Director Beidek and
Penn State's football teams have been roasted on the
gridiron of their, own idealism.
Although some slightly agitated inmates of the
press pound succeeded in making an issue out of what
was a profound triviality, the usual talk of "What's
the matter with the team?" was annually passed off
like charges of insolvency in .the Bank of England.
There was, of course, the incident of Nate Cartmell's
resignation in May 19M, but the resultant sound and
fury signified less than nothing as far as dishirbing
Mr. Bezdek's concept of athletic .purity went.
Now, somebody not altogether bright, has started
the unsubstantiated rumor that one of the football
players fainted at practice the other night from too
long hours of work with insufficient sleep and infre
quent meals. Other rumors of dissatisfaction float
down from uniformed figures on New Beaver field.
And so the question resolves itself in the minds
of the players as to whether they are to have enough
to eat or Penn State will continue to be athletically
pure and impotent.
Possibly Mr. Bezdek is in favor of offering the
varsity players three square meals a day so that they
will not have to work for their meals and can manage
to sleep and even study.
If he is not, it is only fair to warn him he's do
ing it the hard way.
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PURE AND HUNGRY •
(An historical analysis or athletics at- Penn State
with little emphasis on history and less on analysis.)
Just when it seemed that athletics in American
colleges a decade ago were to be forever submerged
in the black muck of subsidization, the Carnegie Foun
dation. an organization about which nobody seems to
know much and nobody, we might add, seems greatly
to care, whipped together a report.
This report came out in 1926. That was the year
when Dr. Hetzel came to Penn State and collegiate
torsos were swaying to the-rhythms of the Charles-
The Carnegie's charges against Penn State's sys
tem of hired gridiron helpers elicited righteous de- .
nials from this campus which were largely based on
the idea that we had beaten the Foundation to the
punch.
This was not altogether fiction devised by under
graduate minds since we already had decided that
paying $43,400 for subsidization in 1925-26 when we
won only .571 of our games that year was not heady
finance before the report came out. In other words,
Something Should Be Dane About It.
But we dilly daily. We trifle. And with so much
Of consequence to report on, too.
A plan was adopted in 1927 after "a very ex
haustive study participated in by student, alumni
faculty, and trustees," and it became effective in 1928,
althOugh several years elapsed before the slimy ten
acles of subsidization really unwound their grip. •
Before this, athletes here had been supported by
class subsidization or by scholarships authorized by
the Board of Trustees and the lads were quartered
in the old Track house until Varsity hall was built.
All this had made Penn State as vulnerable as a
short suit to-charges of. subsidization.
The scholarship athletes had become clannish,
like English composition instructors, and alumni
clamored for scholarships for Deserving Boys from
their home towns with big biceps who could read' and
write.
In 1930 when he resigned as football coach, Hugo
Bezdek (who had been fired the last several years by
everyone in these . mountains except his employers, the
Board of Trustees) was referred to as "The Grand
Old Man of Football." He had coached here for 12
years before retiring to devote his efforts to heading
the new School of Physical Education which he found
ed shortly after and learning to become an idealist.
After a summer of bickering, Bob Higgins, who
was a good football. player here in the days of sinful
subsidization, was appointed coach from a field of
Hello, Alumni
You're back again and we
are glad to see you . . .
We hope you'll enjoy the
game ... the fraternity re
unions ... the meeting with
former classmates . . . and
a visit to
The Corner
UNUSUAL
Ti ill PENN. STATE COLLEGIAN -
Hort. Show. Will Open
At 7 O'clock Tonight
The annual two-day Horticulture
Show will . open. - in . Room C, 120
Creamery Dairy IMilding, tonight at
7 o'clock. It will be open until 11
o'clock and tomorrow from 8 o'clock
in the morning until 10.
Thirty dollars in prizes will be
awarded to first and second placeWin
sere. Ribbon§ will also be given.
Fruits, flowers and vegetables will be
on display and there will be exhibits
of baked apples, pies, and jellies sub
mitted by sophomore home economics
food classes.
Door prizes of a peck of apples will
be given away every hour. Conces
sion booths operated by women stu
dents in IrindaitiPe' architecture and
horticulture will - be open.
One of tlie features of the show
will be a large, scale model of the
range of proposed greenhouses, ex
perimental gardens and nurseries • to
be erected north sof the' stock judging
pavilion. This Model was constructed
by 3andscape architecture classes.
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WELCOME, ALUMNI!
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Oct. Oct.
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1935
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Art Exhibit Features
Drawings by Campbell
Featuring thirty-seven water color
Irawingi by David A. Campbell 'l9,
assistant professor of architecture,
the first art exhibit of the 1935-3 G
season was hung on the third floor
of Main, Engineering building on last
Friday. The.show will remain on ex
hibition until Friday.
In additibn to Mr. Campbell's draw
ngs of various quarries throughout
"ientre County the permanent College
!xhibit of original oil paintings by
well 'known artists is being shown.
Dther features included in the exhi
'Rion are examples of student work
n structural drawing and models in
corking drawings, drawings from
mats, water color Sketches, and char
„mai sketches of local buildings.
Mr. Campbell, who became inter. ,
ested in the artistic possibilities lat
ent in the various quarry cuts in the
county this summer ,has completed
his gallery of thirty-seven drawings
since June 21. In his interpretation
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