FOOTBALL COACH’S PAY
Speaking in aa address in Christchurch of the place occupied by loot ball in the life of the students in American universities, Mr Robert K Burns, the visiting debater from Washington University, stated that at his own college tile football coach was paid a salary of an equivalent in dollars to £3(KX) a veafc The president of the college received £2500 a year. It was the general rule in America for professors to be paid at a lower cate than football coaches. However, Mr Bui ns concluded, the conduct of loutball as a commercial proposition enabled the college to support other sports such as tennis and basketball, and oven to semi wandering debater to New Zealand
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 2
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119FOOTBALL COACH’S PAY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 2
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