PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1961 Illinois Scandal Reaction: Everybody Gl eats' A4 Associated Press News Analysis CHICAGO-A former Big Ten football coach said college rules are so strict and unrealistic that they encourage hypocrisy. "Everybody cheats a little, some cheat a whole lot," the spokesman, who preferred to re- main anonymous, said in discuss- ing the recent crackdown on the University of Illinois in the $21,- 000 slush fund case. Another coach who moved to a different conference comment- ed: "You can't let a boy go around with holes in his shoes, but if you help him you are break- ing the code. It's ridiculous. No wonder the rules always are being broken." Illinois was slapped down for doling out sums-$15 and $35 a monthgenerally-to needy foot- ball and basketball players over a five-year period.' The university, through Presi- dent Dr. David D. Henry, blew the whistle on itself, only to get the book thrown at it. Seven star athletes were sus- pended, five permanently, their careers virtually destroyed. The Big Ten Conference told Illi- nois to fire head football coach Pete Elliott, basketball coach Harry Combes and assistant Howard Braun or face suspen- sion. The coaches resigned. "It's like getting the electric chair for spitting on the sidewalk," said Clive Follmer, former Illinois ath- lete and now a successful attor- ney in Champaign, Ill. "You have one policeman to patrol a city. He nabs 17nlaw- breakers and three million go free. This is the same thing." Somebody suggested it was like being tried and convicted by the Mafia or the James boys. Half a dozen of the conference members who voted such stiff pun- ishment for the offenders have been caught with their fingers in the till themselves. Some got off more lightly. Michigan State is sweating out the final year of a four-year suspended probation for paying air fare home for one of its football players. A spokesman for the conference had an explanation. "Illinois kept a detailed book on its fund and the disburse- ments," the official said. "The fund was operated with the knowledge of the coaches, who knew it was against the rules. The evidence against others is not always as concrete." The severity of the judgment was widely criticized. "This was just peanuts compar- ed with what others are doing," said Doug Mills, the Illinois ath- letic director for 25 years before resigning Dec. 1 for what he call- ed personal reasons. A Green Bay Packer star, who played in the Big Ten, said he was amazed at the stiffness of the punishment. "When I was in college it was common knowledge that a lot of the guys were getting extra mon- ey and special favors-gifts from alumni, tickets for trips home and cash when they needed it," he said. "Everybody knows it. You just can't do anything about it." "In the Big Ten, you can't even give a boy spending money for his laundry or a weekend date," a coach said. "If he comes to the campus for a look, you can't let him touch a football or dribble a basketball. "He gets the feeling that the school doesn't want him. So he goes to a campus where they throw out the red carpet for him-legal or not. And they do. When one of these major Big Ten schools wants a boy, they have a way of getting him." A broad survey by the Asso- ciated Press after the Illinois in- cident disclosed that athletic di- rectors, coaches and ex-players talk glibly of existing abuses-but strictly off the record. The conclusion drawn from in- terviews was that most schools are guilty in some ways. The college policing bodies - the various conferences and the tough National Collegiate Athlet- ic Association-try to keep a close eye on infractions. They have their own gum-shoe investigators scouring the campuses. They check out every report of a possible violation. But they apparently only man- age to scrape the surface. There are subtle ways of evading the law, and most of them are used. Main offenders are wealthy alumni or aulmni groups. "You'll find most of the of- fenses, such as these at Illinois, deal with needy boys who have no means of picking up even pocket money," said David Downey, an All-Big Ten basket- ball star at Illinois in 1961-63 and now an insurance executive and lawyer in Champaign. "You see a boy with holes in his shoes or with a frayed jacket, so you give him a few bucks. Tech- nically, this is against the rules. Morally, to most, it seems all right. "Under the rules, an athlete is not even even permitted to work on the campus to pick up laundry and pocket change. Other students can, but not the athletes. "Ihhave done some recruiting for he university and I'll guar- antee that Illinois is not the worst offender. I don't have enough evidence to bring anybody into court, but I know other schools,. including the Big Ten, are doing the same thing." There are devious means of cir- cumventing the code. One former college athlete, now a pro, said that he was persuaded to enter a Big Ten university when a business man signed to give him a heavy cash award upon graduation. The man paid off. Michigan State and Wisconsin are among the schools with stu- 'M'Opposed Last Ruling By JOEL BLOCK Throughout the proceedings of the Illinois case, the Michigan athletic board had favored a heavier institutional penalty against the University of Illinois instead of the dismissal of the three coaches. "The athletic board was unanimously opposed to the ultimatum given by the Conference which forced Pete Elliott, Harry Combes, and Howard Braun to resign," Michigan's faculty representative, Marcus Plant said yesterday. "Several of the men on the athletic board are professional people and they thought that the individual penalties were not in line with penalties normally imposed on individuals in the profes- sion. "They termed the order to fire the coaches as 'too extreme' in that it was the same as excluding someone from his profession." In the emergency meeting of the Big Ten athletic directors in February, Michigan's athletic director H.0. (Fritz) Crisler voted against the proposal to force Illinois to fire the thee coaches. After he found that the rest of the Big Ten athletic directors were in favor of the motion (Illinois abstaining from all voting on the issue), Crisler moved that it be reported to the public that the vote was unanimous. At the March 2 meeting of the faculty representatives, Plant voted along with the eight other representatives to back up the athletic directors' decision to invoke the "just cause" clause. The rule says that if the institution retains on its athletic staff the guilty persons, its conference membership will be suspended or terminated-unless it can show just cause why it shouldn't be. Plant stated, "I thought the violations were serious enough to warrant the use of this severe penalty. But at the time, I thought Illinois would be able to show cause and the coaches would not have to resign." "There were two other faculty representatives at that March 2nd meeting who were sympathetic to the Illinois' cause. I don't know what changed their minds between then and the March 18th meeting, "I chose to vote against the resolution in the final vote because I wanted it to be on the record that the University of Michigan did not agree that the coaches should be forced to resign." EsiMN~21N##s~ffs~##i#ENNI~iss~~i#iiMiSE~iisN~isis~i#iih+Ir: :.tis S6Wi" #N gg A coach told how a rival school nailed a promising athlete by getting him into a friendly poker game with some prominent busi- ness men around town. The busi- ness men conspired to let the prospect win several hundred dol- lars, and the boy suddenly got in- terested in the particular college. Some colleges give varsity players tickets to sell-out games. These can be hawked-perhaps not legally but without risk- for fat prices, sometimes as much as $50 a ticket. Several years ago recruiting practices among major colleges were wide open, with outstanding prospects enticed by all sorts of awards and promises. Some athletes got new cars. One All-America had been presented 100 new suits. Parents were put into new homes. Players even got scholarships for their girl friends. In the late 1940s, the National Collegiate Athletic Association adopted the so-called sanity code which put a clamp on recruiting practices. Gains were made but' the evil of cheating could not be wiped out. Later, the work program was launced. Under this rule, an ath- lete on scholarship could work around campus, doing odd Jobs at the going rate. The rule was abused. Some athletes got paid without working. Others got exorbitant fees. Then in 1957 the current grant-in-aid policy was adopted. Under this rule, generally in force throughout the country, an athlete's grant had to be lim- ited to his scholarship, board and books with $15 extra a month for spending money. The Big Ten refused to adopt the $15 spending money clause. Iowa once had its membership in the conference suspended for nine months and 22 of its athletes declared permanently ineligible for giving illegal aid. Twice in the last decade Indiana was disciplined for financial in- fractions. Phil Dickens, Indiana football coach, had to watch his team's games from the stands while serving a one-year suspen- sion. Coach Woody Hayes of Ohio State got in hot water with the NCAA in 1956 for lending money to his players from a $4,000 fund he received for television appear- ances. Hayes, one of the most out- spoken and controversial of coaches, leaped to Illinois' defense. He said the punishment was too harsh for the offense. Michigan State was placed on probation in 1953 because of a Spartan Fund--similar to that at Illinois-and is currently on suspended 'sentence for paying one of its football players. Bill Reed, the graying square- built former newsman who over- sees the Big Ten as commissioner from a swank office in a Chicago hotel said he was "astounded and dismayed" by the revelations of the Illinois case. "We were going smoothly, we thought that the compulsions to cheat had been reduced to an ab- solute minimum," he added. "Now we don't know. We can't say sim- ilar conditions don't exist on other campuses. But, failing to prove it, we can't say they do exist." The o 11e g e situation has brought new alarm to Avery Brundage, president of the Inter- national Olympic Committee and an Illinois alumnus, who contends the nation's moral fibre is being undermined. "At one Big Ten university, the annual appropriation for scholar- ships is $416,000," Brundage said. "The accomplished high school athletes sell themselves to the highest bidder like fancy live stock." A dent loan funds. If an athlete gets in a tight squeeze; he can swing a loan and not be required to pay until after graduation. "I think you'll find many of these boys making such - loans," a former Big Ten basketball coach said. "When he's out of school, who will make him pay it. Or who will prevent a wealthy supporter of the team from picking up the tab?" 4 BLOOD WEDDING (Bodas de Sangre) DRAMA By FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA presented by THE DEPT. OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES and LA SOCIEDAD HISPANICA SOUTH QUAD & Announcing the new.... 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