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Cheating or Dinosaurs: Which Came First?
Published: 7/30/2009 2:19 PM
Last Modified: 7/30/2009 2:19 PM

Sports is more corrupt and evil and sinister than ever before and things will never go back to the pure and innocent ways of yesteryear.

There's just one problem with all of the above: Sports was never pure and innocent.

I was digging through microfilm archives the other day for research. Scanning microfilm is always more time-consuming than it should be because some compelling off-topic headline is going to grab your interest and take you away from the business at hand.

In this instance, the must-read-this story was about cheating in college athletics.

Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen once told the Associated Press Managing Editors Convention that the NCAA needed to hire an "enforcer" to take care of rule-breakers.

"The laws of intercollegiate athletics are not being enforced," he said. "They are a sham. If the conferences believe what they profess, they could hire an enforcer with full power -- not to fire the boy who is guilty, but to fire the coach."

Allen said college presidents were to blame.

"They do not want to surrender power. They don't want to admit college athletics needs a policeman. It does. (Giving) money over or under the table is the worst evil in colleges. I say the boy in college doesn't need extra money. No boy can afford to drive a car on scholarship."

The year was 1954, which means that colleges were paying players more than a half century ago. The only thing that has changed is rates have gone up.


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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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