Educator: End Scholarships, Shorten Seasons

The president of the American Council on Education told Congress Thursday that two drastic moves would help to cure the “basically unhealthy” system of college sports:

--Abolition of athletic scholarships;

--Shortening of the football, basketball and baseball seasons.

Robert H. Atwell was among several academic, media and sports federation officials who testified before a House Education and Labor subcommittee on problems afflicting collegiate sports programs.

Citing “the insidious connection between money and winning,” Atwell also proposed the elimination of freshman eligibility in football and basketball, and an equal sharing of television revenues among all schools.