On Feb. 27, 1902, the Lawrence Journal told of efforts underway to reduce professionalism in college athletics. The Journal said, “The discussion that has been going on for several weeks between the University of Kansas and the other educational institutions of the state to reduce professionalism in college athletics to a minimum under the Topeka conference rules has brought matters to a satisfactory basis, and the university has got just what it was after. Instead of the wide open possibilities for professionalism that the rules allowed, the present arrangement will bar all professionalism except the milder offenses connected with ‘summer baseball,’ and all who have received a salary in that sport will be barred from college teams. The next work of the conference will be to enlist the active co-operation of all the colleges in the state in this line, and indications point to an early accomplishment of that end.”