Show j 1 West Losses Threaten Rose Bowl By GRANTLAND RICE IF YOU TAKE enough punches especially around the you are more than likely to get ii what has hap-luBi to Pacific Coast Conference Big Nine victories s 1 x if FT you care to j have Jolted the west coast off i mil from the west coast presidents was to abolish the Bowl Hooked with this startling Idea were other suggestions such as playing the game soon after the regular season ended or having all-star teams from each conference The latter suggestion doesn't make any sense at It would be merely an exhibition and would also conflict with the San Francisco Shrine the finest charity that football The west coast presidents are In a tough College presidents all over the map have been partly blamed for football's payment of alumni coaching troubles and various other ills and ailments that have attacked the The stew over the system at Southern California and the heavy panning Lynn Waldorf took after hla third all helped to stir up the They wanted to do something about the they could think up no way of punishing or curbing the where big part of the trouble It is all well enough to say a college president should take a hand In handling the But he can't very well be athletic alumni director and president at the same It was a heavy shock to the west to discover that Its famous Rose Bowl was in real This would also Include tho since the Big Nine or Big Ten wouldn't work with the south or and the east Is out the This situation would leave future bowl games to the unless the Pasadena committee arranged an outlaw apart from any That could with the sanity code leaping back into the this promises to be the busiest winter football has far away from the actual More about Notre Dame We ran recently Into Jerry Notre Dame's star center for the last three Jerry has been one of the best defensive In football since 1948 and Notre Dame Is certain to miss his effective play next lose a good many men from our 1950 Groom our replacements for this next fall will be There will be at least six or seven regulars missing possibly more and our freshman squad this season wasn't any too The freshmen had several pretty good but no outstanding Our substitute or reserve list was pretty thin this last This was one of the reasons for our bad It might be mentioned here that Groom will be one of the missing stars who will be hard to wo have an extremely able coaching Jerry again this staff has no Idea how many men we lose before next And Notre Dame right now Is not in a position to lose many We arc not as well fixed for material as many others There Is a question as to whether the platoon system can survive the lack of material In a war It has been proved that teams with two platoons have a big advantage over the single although Michigan had five men who played on both offense and Dame had to work this way most of the Groom had to meet too many fresh It is more than possible that football won't be important enough next fall to bother Size of the Draft Football and our two major lined up with basket the biggest drawing face heavy cuts in their playing strength for Just how heavy these cuts will be is still a matter of But since a big part of the draft strikes at ages ranging from 19 to 23 or you can see what the impact will I asked Bert pro football's how hard his game would be were facing the finest crop In pro Bert said to the I am afraid there won't be many I would say that at least 75 per cent of col lege stars graduating this spring will be At least that many The student who has just graduated will be called before those still in college A great many colleges have ROTC course and those enrolled In these will be given a chance to finish their In any event they must leave college to enter the armed forces |