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Show MANY are called ff. be chosen. At w'1 ball head coaches, J' morettan 2,500 ning the present ' and future draft lists with anxious rjl eyes. f After all both " army and navy 0f- : " mx flcials want football S to keep moving at its old pace, with-out with-out any exemptions " for those who hap- pen to be forward passers or blocking ffl 'I backs whenever their number comes Grants along. It Is only reasonable fa ball a head men should b, checking on a season Um less than a month away, j human for a coach to L good a break as his rivilij the big gridiron lottery of ft Just at present there li to arrive at any Informal I asked Dr. Nicholas ! Butler, president of Colum-versity, Colum-versity, just how the drafts was in the lair of the Lion. "As closely as I can nub tlmate," Dr. Butler said, ments and the draft tofeth take away somethinr like ! dents from Columbia, Tit or university toll all ovet tt try will be heavy. I haw idea how many on the Co list are football players. Th be some, of course. But li Jority called out will be m post-graduates. There hu heavy demand for engine; chemists all over the com would be my guess that foott have a larger number W j players than we have normal upon the field." The College Con Columbia is one of the c. larger universities. But If t pw versity tc around 900 : should be: the same a fornia univi Michigan,: Ohio State, sota, Norths and Souther fornia. There w:, no such t Harvard, Princeton, i Nicholas Dartmouth, Murray Butler ordi and , the southern and southwest versities that fall well be!: 10,000 enrollment. They will lose the same j age, however. The college contribution to navy, air force and man-be man-be something over 250,000 ( dating from July to October This may be an underes It will be in the next six n No Hurt to theCi But all of this will have no effect on the football Mf 1911. It would make little difc even if it did. But it woe that way. There will be just as na-competition na-competition as there ever; There will be just as nwet wide excitement and interes. will be just as many bcrc Some universities will football way, more than tne Is completely unimportant world as it is today. But on most football squa-; are always many who overlooked. These will be given chance this fall. For Football After all college h- I 8Pre last 10 or 3P I pressure put upon coaches along winning teams i W game no good lL developed not only pro direct pay to an unbelt 'The bidding : for has gone beyond Ut There has been far called "national , "winning big-time stuff, supposed to oeP Ttt, lege students secWng, an education. , t I have never bcl, college football star in any way a.ver: sistance than any go pJ, dent should get, boS was an education. There have been too p,ayersall over many of these hw fh, than hundreds " w p the game and couM lpW(l oa,land often nee ui The fellows ' who d, of," who had cost money the first call. . ? m. With the draft cutt r element of chance p this seems to be ft . general cleaning : & alumni P1 pressure for removed. |