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Show PADDY PiSEB BY FOOTBALL CRITICS Driscoll Is Called Greatest Player in Country Today. Eastern football critics, usually reticent reti-cent to recognize western athletics, arc declaring Paddy Driscoll, Great Lakes quarterback, tho greatest player iu the country. He is enthusiastically compared com-pared with Jim Thorpe, Howard Berry, Eddie Mahan, Hobey Baker and other idols of the eastern gridiron; and all because of the Kutgers massacre wherein where-in Driscoll scored six touchdowns and kicked five goals. Harry Schumacher of the New York Evening Globe marvels over the performing per-forming of Paddy. He says in part: ' ' He is the most elusive traveler the east has ever seen. He appears to pick his holes instinctively and goes sliding through them like a greased pig. He seldom zigzags or loses ground by circling cir-cling away from the would-be tacklers, but seems to melt away from a tackle in a fashion that defies description. He simply isn't there, that's all. "This player was the mainspring and the inspiration for the entire Great Lakes attack. He gained more ground than all the rest of his baekfield combined. com-bined. He plowed through' the Kutgers line at will, and when, by way of variety, va-riety, he skirted their flanks, he was seldom dragged down before he had gone from fifteen to twenty-five or thirty yards." Schumacher diverts for a few lines to the interference afforded Driscoll, saying: say-ing: "No player ever received better support than Driscoll in the Rutgers game. All-star teams are seldom coordinated co-ordinated machines, but Driscoll seemed to have tea men helping him on every play. The interference given biro was nothing short of magnificent, and was j largely responsible for some of his most sensational dashes. "- Another Gotham reviewer dwells on Paddy's resemblance to the Indian, Thorpe. Sid Mercer, veteran writer, who was an eyewitness, writes that " Driscoll 's excursions to the Rutgers goal line provoked memories of Jim Thorpe. His dodges utterly confused Sanford's well trained tacklers, and his plunges through massed opposition were marvelous. ' ' And so on the' esteemed critics boosted, boost-ed, praised and bubbled over the IBS-pound IBS-pound sailor from the greatest naval training station iu the world. They ran out of adjectives in telling the east what 50,000 sailors have known all along. Fred Murphy, former Tale star and now head coach at Northwestern university, univer-sity, declares Driscoll as a tackier, a broken field runner, a passer or a field general has never met a rival. He specializes spe-cializes on all branches of the game, says Murphy, while others shine at only one. i ' |