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CHICAGO GRADUATES THINK OF BUYING SOME FOOTBALL STARS

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The Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper at the University of Chicago, announced recently that about 500 "loyal graduates" were planning on a "secret meeting to decide on a way" to lift the football team out of the doldrums.

The paper stated that further details of the meeting would be revealed later. The hapless Maroon eleven entertains the Ohio State Buckeyes is a homecoming game tomorrow at Stage Field. The Daily Maroon attacked the school's football policy in an editorial and suggested that the alumni be encouraged to buy up a good football team.

In part the editorial said: "We are glad that even if the University does not feel free to institute athletic scholarships at the expense of the regular holders, its alumni are interested enough to devote time and, we hope, money to buy us a good football team."

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