Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-11 | Page 12 | Want to be an Unsung Hero? Get a Job on Football Line

Y S SWant W Want to Be Be- Bean an an- Uns Unsung ng Hero j Get a Job on Football Line Backs Still Sill Get Glory as Forwards o a ds G Get t It In the Neck for Hard Work L 1 By Henry Hery McLemore United Press Correspondent NEW NEV YORK Nov The Tho 11 The best beat way to absolute obscurity except by operating a miniature golf course Isto is isto to get a job as a n lineman on ona a a. football football foot foot- ff ball team preferably preferably preferably prefer prefer- ably a a. job as a guard cent center r or ft tackle There on theline the t line flanked by tt J. J men who from the stands at least j f look like do cf dt you i and act just like t r you do no one is likely to call can your name notice you or throw w your you r name across the headlines of ot the nations nation's pers Even if h o 0 u 1 d thoughtlessly thoughtlessly thought thought- lessly play th the best game gameon son on the field nine out out- of ot 10 experts and out of 1000 spectators will be too busy watching the backfield to pay you any mind If you dont don't believe It select t. t average football fans and ask them to name nam in one minute 15 to football players other than members of teams they see regularly Im I'm convinced convinced con con- vinced the would name name 13 IS or 14 Ii backfield men and maybe a II couple of linemen UNFAIR TO LINEMEN IEN This very is unfair to the linemen those noble souls who allow the backfield backfield back back- field men to sweep out into the open and gallop to fame and sometimes fortune We got to thinking along these lines after reading the ac accounts of Georgias Georgia's victory over N. N Y Yo U U. and Notre Dames Dame's whipping of Penn Pen Now the tho best men on th the field i ithe Inthe in inthe the New Georgia York shindig wera of red headed southern souther a 0 couple s guards Lc Leathers thor and Maddox b by name These babies tough as a asteak asteak steak slice sUco of Gibraltar and mean mea as bobcats did everything right But Bu you never would know it from reading read read- ing the papers And if if- the experts expert didn't see their work you can ImagIne imagIne imag Imag- Ine me how much attention w was paid It by spectators rs The best thing about Notre Dames Dame team this year Marchmont Schwartz notwithstanding is its line power powe Yet how many Irish linesmen ca cayou can enn you name offhand How many peo peo- pie plc know that Tommy is captain cap cap- tain of the team And that Tomm Tommy is as as sweet sweeta a center as u you'd want and that he has been playing a a. whale of ot a 8 game despite a mess mesa o of injuries The only way Tommy ca can canet trot get et any any publicity will bo be to make a abad abad bad pass at ata at-a a crucial time BACKS GET GLORY And what is true of Notre Damand Dame Dam and Georgia is true of ot nearly every very team you can name Last year Yale's Yale one redeeming feature was Yas Fred Linehan certainly the best guard in inthe inthe the tho east and one of 01 the b best st in th the country The stocky Linehan wa was wasl half the Yale t team arn am yet all aU you heard was Booth Booth Booth And Linehan Line Line- han ban was worth six Bo Booths Soon as tuII asI I get my my first six million Im I'm going to end this business o of giving the backs all the credit Soon as I L get my first fIrt t five flye million Ill I'll tell tel you how I plan to do It