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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 16

Physical Education, members of the athletic coaching staff of the University, members of the teaching staff of the School of Physical Education, the Director of Intramural Sports, and members and former members of the Board of Directors of the Athletic Association. Individual members of your committee have had personal conferences with the Acting Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, the Director of the School of Physical Education, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Athletics, the Business Manager of the Athletic Association, and other members of the teaching and coaching staffs. Besides the evidence obtained from personal interviews, a number of letters are in the files of the committee in which the views of members of the teaching and coaching staffs are expressed. "The Director of the School of Physical Education is concerned with the health education and recreation of students. This is accomplished through ( a ) giving medical examinations, teaching hygiene, teaching physical education, and (b) training professional workers, including athletic coaches, in the general field of physical education. " T h e Director of Athletics is concerned primarily with organizing and developing a program of intercollegiate athletics and with the administration of the activities of the Athletic Association. " T h e persons interviewed by the committee, both from the School of Physical Education and from the department of Intercollegiate Athletics, all favored the continuation of the two separate organizations and were opposed to their union under one head. T h e successful administration of both these units by the person at the head of one of them is impracticable, if not impossible, because of the volume of work and the difference in objective and in the point of view of each organization. Even under Mr. Huff a much larger division of function obtained than is commonly supposed. "Some criticism has been voiced over the apparent failure of the School of Physical Education to place football coaches in the high schools of the state. This situation has been attributed to a lack of emphasis on courses in coaching. However, there are more coaching courses offered at the University of Illinois at the present time than at most universities which are held up as examples of successful coaching schools. Furthermore, the placing of a smaller number of football coaches than of basketball coaches in Illinois is due partly to the fact that football is played in a smaller number of schools than is basketball. Compared with the approximately 910 high schools in Illinois which play interscholastic basketball, there are only 346 which play regular football and 43 which play six-man football. Less than one-third of the high schools in the United States play regular interscholastic football. Your committee heard only complimentary statements from members of both staffs about the present administration of the School of Physical Education and the department of Intercollegiate Athletics, with high praise for the administrators. " T h e University Senate has concurred in the judgment of its Committee on Educational Policy that placing the School of Physical Education under the administration of the Director of Athletics is unwise and would not be in the best interests of the University." I concur in the judgment of the Senate.

This report was referred to the Committee on Athletic Activities for consideration and report.

APPROPRIATION TO UNIVERSITY RETIREMENT BOARD (9) T h e General Assembly of Illinois made an appropriation of $200,000 to the University for its share of the costs of the new University Retirement System of Illinois during the current biennium. These funds are to be paid to the Board of Trustees of the University Retirement System of Illinois on the basis of an apportionment among the various institutions and funds (Federal, State, and Trust F u n d s ) , in accordance with actuarial procedures. T h e actuarial studies to determine the total charges against this fund for the current year have not been completed. T h e Board has authorized an advance of $5,000 to meet death claims from which $4,985 has been paid.