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Show Coach Santistevan Gives Account Of Great Football Bailey J. Santistevan After spending a truly pleasant pleas-ant vacation on the Pacific coast where I had the pleasure to witness wit-ness two of the best football games of the year, the Chicago Bears vs the National League All-stars; a day at the coliseum in Los Angeles watching the world's greatest golf professionals profession-als in action; a day at Santa Anita Ani-ta race track, and then, for full measure, the tournament of roses parade and the Rose bowl game, it is a pleasure to give an account of these events- First I will say something a-bout a-bout the Chicago Bears all-star pro bowl classic. A turn-away crowd of more than 21,000 fans jammed every available spot in Gilmore stadium to witness the game, and they didn't go away disappointed. The teams played for keeps, tore at each other with nothing barred. The word "vicious" "vi-cious" is too weak to describe the manner in which these greatest great-est players in football charged, blocked, tackled and ran. In this game we saw the T-for-mation as - it -really. . should .be worked. A system that demands fast backs who are also endowed with the strength of bulls, because be-cause they must carry the ball without interference; a quarterback quarter-back with brains that can pass; a full-back who alone can tear a line to pieces. There s no need trying to make the T-formation work if you haven't the above-It above-It just won't work. Well, here's how the Bears measured up Plasman, LE, weight 210; Stydabar, LT, 230; Torrance, LG, 233, Turner, center, cen-ter, 225; Musso, RG, 270; Artoe, RT, 218; Wilson. RE, 190; Luck-man, Luck-man, QB, 197; Harry Clark, LH, 185; Tamiglietti, RH, 188; Os-manski, Os-manski, FB, 197- What a team to field! All fast, good ball handlers, hand-lers, tacklers and blockers. The thing that was noticeable above everything was the fact that the Pros never try to protect pro-tect a one touchdown lead- They pass anywhere on the field and try to score from any place on the field. On one occasion a place kick was attempted from the 50 yard line which went wide by inches. Again I say that speed, size and sincerity with football smartness being understood, characterized the play of the professionals pro-fessionals who gave the fans thrills galore in the 21-14 victory vic-tory for the Chicago Bears. The Rose Bowl The Rose bowl game was a battle bat-tle of reserve strength and power pow-er gainst gridiron magic and endurance. en-durance. The latter (Stanford) triumphed in impressive fashion-There fashion-There wasn't a dull moment from the time the bands struck up the national anthem until the gun ended on one of the greatest defensive de-fensive battles ever witnessed (Continued on Page Four) forementioned teams, but the brain child of Ralph Jones, coach of Little Wake Forest college, who at one time coached the Chicago Chi-cago Bears and gave the technique techni-que of this formation to both Shaughnessy and Halas. Both of these coaches are rated as great coaches but only because they had great players to work with. As I said before, the new T-for-mation demands them. All in all the Rose bowl parade pa-rade and the two football games really provided the mob and maddened citizenry and fans of Pasadena and Los Angeles a truly tru-ly marvelous show. One that I'll never forget- I might also add that to make my stay in Hollywood even more pleasant, was a day spent at the Santa Anita race track and another an-other in the coliseum in Los Angeles An-geles coliseum watching the nation's na-tion's greatest golfers demonstrate demon-strate for the huge group of fans gathered there their techniques in driving, use of woods, and use of irons, among them Ralph Gu-dahl, Gu-dahl, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Sammy Snead, Jimmy Demaret, Lawson Little, Johnny Revolta, l Jimmy Thomasen and Olin Du-tra, Du-tra, all priming themselves to enter the Los Angeles $10,000 open golf meet. I am sure that Mr. and Mrs. Harley English, Fred Hoine, John Bolic, Nick Patrick, Pete Chanak, John Stenuga, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zaccaria, W. R. Anderson, Bailey Santistevan Jr. and Le-land Le-land Burress will agree with me and McLemore that we would pay scalpers prices to see such shows again. COACH SANTISTEVAN GIVES ACCOUNT OF GREAT FOOTBALL (Continued from page one) in the famed Rose bowl- Nebraska's Nebras-ka's forward line literally wrecked wreck-ed the Indians aside to convert their 48 yard drive into a touchdown. touch-down. It looked like Nebraska would win with ease. After the first touchdown Coach Biff Jones substituted five of his regulars and it was here I thought he cooled his team off, for Nebraska lost its fire. Jones evidently thought that because his ieam had scored so easily and because of his reserve strength that he could score at will- Stanford kept its club intact and kept boring in until they got to clicking and their comeback come-back was as astonishing as Nebraska's Ne-braska's beginning. In fact their offense was mystifying and spectacular. spec-tacular. Kmetovic was a real loo'.e - hipped halfback, with strong leg and hip action, a beautiful beau-tiful change of pace and speed to burn. His return of Nebraska's punj for a touchdown was the pay-off- Nebraska also presented a great back in Zikmund. This boy returned the kickoff from his 16-yard line to Stanford's 38 for the longest return of a kick-off kick-off in Rose bawl history. The record was formerly held by Monieth of Oregon. On this play Zikmund received a broken leg and it was from here that Nebraska's Ne-braska's offense bogged. Stanford employed the new T-formation in motion and flanked plays. Standlee proved to be a great line bucker and Albert a great all-around quarterback. His passing, pass-ing, ball lugging, blocking and kicking were standout features. The T-formation as it was used by Stanford and the Chicago Bears is not the product of Halas or Shaughnessy, coach of the a- |