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RaceBannon
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USC football coach Jeff Cravath wrote quite an article for Collier’s Magazine three years after he retired in 1953 with the headline, “The Hypocrisy of College Football.”
Cravath charged college football reduced athletes to “perjurers, scalpers and football gigolos.
The methods by which all of us obtained and maintained players were rotten and corrupt.”
Cravath talked about recruiting halfback Johnny Olszewski, a St. Anthony High School in Long Beach star player who became an All-American at Cal.
A USC alumnus offered Olszewski a new car, $150 a month during his college career, expenses through law school and a junior partnership in the alumnus’ law firm after graduation.
After the Collier’s story was published, Olszewski said he “never heard” of the offer detailed by Cravath. But once he heard the details, Olszewski said the offer, “sounds good, anyways.”
Cravath co-wrote the article with Mel Durslag, a USC graduate who worked for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Los Angeles Times.
Cravath, who became a rancher after coaching at USC, died in 1953 in an auto accident. He played at USC and among his teammates were John Wayne and Ward Bond.
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Cravath charged college football reduced athletes to “perjurers, scalpers and football gigolos.
The methods by which all of us obtained and maintained players were rotten and corrupt.”
Cravath talked about recruiting halfback Johnny Olszewski, a St. Anthony High School in Long Beach star player who became an All-American at Cal.
A USC alumnus offered Olszewski a new car, $150 a month during his college career, expenses through law school and a junior partnership in the alumnus’ law firm after graduation.
After the Collier’s story was published, Olszewski said he “never heard” of the offer detailed by Cravath. But once he heard the details, Olszewski said the offer, “sounds good, anyways.”
Cravath co-wrote the article with Mel Durslag, a USC graduate who worked for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and Los Angeles Times.
Cravath, who became a rancher after coaching at USC, died in 1953 in an auto accident. He played at USC and among his teammates were John Wayne and Ward Bond.
Auto "accident" Right
Source