The move to make football combat Depression reached official status last week when Owen D. Young, chairman of the President's committee to mobilize relief resources, asked all U. S. football-playing colleges to devote the receipts of one game, regular or postseason, to unemployment relief. In the East, two football "tournaments" were organized.
Said Owen D. Young: "This is about the only kind of thing which the students of our schools and colleges can do to aid in the work. . . . The precedent of responding to . . . a national emergency is...
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