Show Glickman Runs Yards In 5 With Grid Togs By PAT ROBINSON International News Service Sports Writer SYRACUSE N. N Y Nov 5 Can 5 Can anybody wearing full football regalia run yards in 10 seconds This question has stirred the imagination of at football fans for years Debate over it probably has raged up and down the land since football began Sports writers writers writers writ writ- ers annually are deluged with re requests requests requests re- re quests to settle it Let a speed boy dazzle the crowd with a long run and almost before he is over the goal line comes conies the query something like this To settle a bet is it true that Joe Glutz speed king of the Si- Si wash backfield was running the hundred in 10 when he scored that touchdown 1 Of course ourse nobody has clocked Joe and so nobody knows the an an- an an- an However we are prepared today to state emphatically that neither the aforesaid Joe of nor anybody else can run the in 10 in a football suit and you may safely wager the wife's jewels on the proposition Ideal Conditions We had some tests made under ideal conditions which decided this question at least as far as we are concerned for all time you may say Jesse Owens Owens Owens Ow Ow- ens could do it We to too tod thought of him and then remembered that Jesse is not a football player hes he's not in condition and therefore it would be doubly unfair to ask him to don heavy shoes headgear headgear headgear head head- gear gear- shoulder and hip pads padded pants and ana jersey No we wanted an active player I who was also a track star He had to be a power runner because it would be manifestly unfair to ask a slender slender lad lad to make the test He also had to be almost as fast as Owens and be in perfect condi condi- tion Powerful Runner We found the ideal man in Marty Glickman star halfback of the Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse Sy Sy- Sy- Sy team Marty not only is a powerful runner but hes he's used to running in football togs And there can be no question either about his condition or his speed He lie was on our Olympic team He ran the meters in at atthe atthe atthe the Olympic trial and only last Jast year he ran the yards ards in 95 in a dual meet against Army Surely if anybody in this country country country coun coun- try could do it for us Marty was the man Well Marty obligingly donned his full football regalia and stepped out outto outto outto to make the test on a dry field We gave him Phil Allen second fastest man on the Syracuse team and a speed boy in his own right as a pacemaker with Jim Decker to check him We gave Allen a yard two-yard handicap handicap handicap handi handi- cap and Marty running as well as ashe ashe ashe he ever did in his life beat him by two yards But what do you suppose Martys Marty's time was Ten seconds Oh no It was and we doubt that you could find two other football players play play- ers in the country to equal it And bear in mind he was not carrying a football under one arm when he did it |