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but not interference from the faculty committee, Dr. Tigert may get  
the results that are wanted. Many believe that the faculty will give him { 
authority to develop his department. At least it appears that he has  it
. more authority than any coach in recent years, and with the general con- l 
fidence that the University authorities and the undergraduates have in "ij
i him, an improvement in conditions may be expected. At least he has s.  
. hard task ahead of him, building up where others have been tearing {_ 
down, and if he succeeds this year, he is deserving of the honest support  
. of every alumnus and friend of the University, and his success this year _ 
may mean a broadening of the scope of the Athletic Department next  
y . year. He has but few of the members of the 1914 football team back on it 
which to build his 1915 eleven, but maybe that is better too, for let the  
Y old order pass in its entirety. He has less than a half dozen 1914  
r varsity men, but practically all of the wonderful freshman team that he  
¤ developed last year, which was generally credited, about the campus,  
 l with having just an edge on the varsity.  
i So the new year is started, but with no announcement of new policy. i 
 y Still those who have an ear to the ground believe that with a coach who  
i has the confidence of the University officials and who has more author- `  
 l ity than any coach has ever before had, that brighter times are coming.  
Only by recognition of the athletic department as a department, with nnal  
Q autho1·ity in management in the hands of the department head, with  
 1 the abolition of the pernicious faculty committee system, and the result-  
; ant politics of the situation, can permanent improvement be promised.  
A If Doctor Tigert is successful in his experiment this year, and many  
l believe he will be, then the time is ripe for the Alumni to get behind  ~§
 y some new system, push it to the limit and insist that the old system  
y be abolished. V 
 [ State is large enough to go to the front in athletics and stay there. y 
_ A few years of success will develop spirit and sentiment that has never  
been known at State University. “ 
{ . This writer, representing the views of a number of Alumni, gives if 
°r it thus: i
it Probably there is no other expression so familiar to us all in describ-  if
_] ing the athletic situation at Kentucky State for the last dozen years, yea ‘ 
., every since we have had athletics, than the "Mexican Muddle." For  
‘ g the last four years there have been four gymnasium directors and as  
, { many head coaches of athletics. During that time the Athletic Com-  ;
i E mittee has been composed of members selected from the faculty and l_
  varied in its make-up from time to time to meet the wishes of the Presi- ‘  i‘
 ye dent of the University. On account of a protest from the students last  
 yl year, the Athletic Committee was reconstructed so as to include stu- Y 
 tl; dent members. The committee is now composed of five members from i 
  the faculty and four from the students, with the President of the Univer- `VQ 
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