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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951
By HOWARD MARTIN
A LOT HAS BEEN said this past season about the evils of
intercollegiate football. And a lot more is going to be said
in seasons to come.
This column is intended to be my two cents worth. There
will probably be considerable argument concerning this infla-
tionary price.
First of all, the idea for this col-
umn is 'not one developed in the
dregs of consecutive defeats at the
bands of TCU and Baylor. Second,
this column is not a tirade at the
victims of the system. I have had
the pleasure of meeting, knowing,
and working with some very fine
people who are associated with the
game of football.
I am fed up with collegiate foot-
Mil.
A minor reason, and one that I'll
start with, is the poor quality of of-
ficiating shown particularly this
year. Reports from the A&M-Tex-
as game, for instance, indicate than
an official of any caliber would have
cleared the field of players (that is,
thrown out 22 men) in the late
stages of the game. Yet pot one
was removed from the game.
The officials have become victims
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of the crowd. A cheering mob of
70,000 people becomes a thing to be
reckoned with in decisions made.
Let's look at another sport and
see if this argument can be a valid
excuse for allowing the incidents
that do occur on the football field
to happen. A baseball umpire has
many more key decisions to make
in a given game than possibly any
other sport official. But a baseball
umpire displays no reluctance in
throwing out anybody who shows
unsportsmanlike conduct, and even
anybody who argues with them too
violently. The respect for a baseball
umpire didn't come overnight; it
took men with guts and a true love
for the game to establish the umpire
as the true authority in a given
game.
I realize there are holes in the
comparison. Football is a game of
contact. It is of necessity a rugged
game. I do not want to remove this
aspect of football. I do ask the of-
ficials to call what they see, and to
look for things to call. I suspect
rather strongly that the referees
turn their back on something they 1
do not want to see, or refuse to see
what they look at.
That the suspicion is present in-
dicates something lacking in col-
legiate officiating.
The major reason, of course, the
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