Football Balance

It is hard to tell these days whether college football is becoming more pro or less pro. It is obviously going somewhere; with so many people talking about it, wining magazine articles about it, attacking it, supporting it, and rounding up the players to perpetuate it, it could not very well stand still.

One of the hardest shoves football has received resulted from the scandal into which the sport sank at the University of Virginia. The faculty of that university has now approved, 68 to 9, a report of its special committee which recommended general de-emphasis of the sport and specifically abolition of athletic scholarships and athletic subsidies.

But even in this stern mood, the Virginia teachers did not try to get rid of intercollegiate football or other sports. They want to see football continued, but only as a sport, not a business. It is hard for any college now to turn its back on potential football revenues, but if Virginia and other big-time colleges balance the moral with the financial factors, they can hardly fail to come to the same conclusions as the Virginia faculty.