Word: squadsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...promised to swear off: 1) recruiting of prep and high-school athletes (sometimes carried on in California with brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...