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Show Gran f land Rice (Copyright. 1522, New York Trlbun Inc : Trade Mark Registered, U. 8 Patent Office ) i LIMERICK oi Tin: GRIDIRON. A halfback who smashed interference I And dived under rival adherents Soon discovered his spine Was a foot out of lino. While his features had changed their, appearance. A fullback who seethed to be sickly. And who at his best was no Brlcklov, On his way out of school Took a gland from a mulo And he made all-American quickly. INTERSECTION ALi FOOTBAIXi. The Western couferenco and several' leading eastern universities have! banned Interactional football for some tlmu to come. The only weakness of lnterscctional football is that it takes a trlflo too much time away from college, usually an extra day But H also has certain strong polnta. It lacks the rabid rivalry of universities playing In the same sec-J tlon. That Is ono thing in Its favori For the most rabid or the keenest rivalry In the game la always neighborly neigh-borly Harvard and Dartmouth. Yale and Harvard. Yale and Princeton. Pittsburg and Penn State, etc Princeton and Chicago fail to stai-t any great flurry In motion because J they arc far apart. Last fall they half tilled th" Palmer stadium just as Yalo and Iowa half filled the Yale bowl. But Princeton and Pennsylvania are so close together they haven't been able to get along at footbell for twentv years THE NEIGHBORLY KEEN NESS. Princeton and Penn, Georgia and Georgia Tech., Alabama and Auburn are merely samples of such intimate geographical adjacent,-, where the rivalry ts too keen for any contest. Thoro could never bo any great rivalry betweon California and Harvard, Har-vard, Yalo and Stanford. Princeton and Iowa. We are not advocating lnternoe-tlonal lnternoe-tlonal football, bat it does carry f-ns koon rivalry and it does lean to better Intersectlonal understanding. We are wrong? Well, does any one think Yale would rather beat Iowa than Harvard? Or Chicago would rather t VTnffon than Mlrhlrao? Or West Point would rather overthrow Notre Dame than the Navy9 Till. WEST LEADS. On the play of the last two seasons. 1 just up to this point, the West has shown greater strength than the east, I Briefly, Chicago, Notre Dame, Iowa and Nebraska four representative western teams, upon the average, have proved stronger than Yale. Princeton, Pittsburgh and West Point. In fact, the west has made almost a clean sweep. The east might not have been at its top form but neither was the west After all It's no startling start-ling mystery to fine material add such coaching genius as the west gets from Zuppke, Wllce, Stagg, Yost. Rocknc. Upward Jones. Richards, etc.,' and the answer is reasonable enough Thfi east has its share of flno foot-i ball instructors. But wo doubt very much whether any other single con-; centrated section of the country can i name such an array as Zuppke, Stag, j Rockne, Yost Wllce, Richards. Jones, etc., they not only carry many years of experience, but In addition thoy ; are aleo natural leaders with excep- tlonal Inspirational qualities- THE FOOTBALL COACH Taken up and down the line, east, west and south, the averago football coach Is not only exceptional in his, skill, but lie Is also a notable factor, I for the collegiate good There are some, of course, who aro i ' Interested only In winning machines, regardless of anything else. But the average football coach reaches as high a type In culture, sportsmanship and skill as any professional pro-fessional class in the world. ThoM- who don't agree with this statement have never mot Tad Jonos. I Dr. Fisher, Howard Jones Alonsol ' st.igg wiice. Bob Zuppke, Roper, Dan McGugln, Mike Donahue, Alexander, Alex-ander, Robinson, Major Daly and ti many others that a column might be ; needed to complete tin- list. THE WAY IT GOES. I Life and football now and then I Work out In equal ways. Whore one small fumble, now and then. Can wlpo out four good plays "This badly ovir-ratcd Ruth," .comments an exchange WH!, they i an'i lake away those fifty-four home runs In 1920 and those fifty-nine in 1921. One hundred and thirteen home ri'nn In tWO Seasons stilt rm1n is a targot for the boys to shoot at for some, weeks to come. Harvard this season. drawing Brown between the Princeton and 7ale battles will nave no soft green carpet on which to l'Kht lor a rest Prl&ceton, Brown and Tale in sic i slon allow but few light momenta nlrnir t H f"Mf!dde for anv torn. |