| Show No More Humiliating Defeats On Gridiron for N NYU NY Y U Lads By LAWTON CARVER NEW YORK Feb 25 INS The INS The terrible beatings which New York university football teams uncomplainingly have suffered suffered suffered suf suf- in recent seasons mercifully have been brought to an end They wont won't go back to their showers after games any more with their bones aching and their pride and confidence battered out of them by 49 The kids who loved the game so well that they laced on their things Saturday after Saturday in a hopeless cause will be deprived of further humilia humilia- tion The only criticism to be made 1 now of New York university's de decision decision de- de e- e to drop football is that they didn't do it soon enough Their inept weary kids took some awful chances against the kind of opposition opposition opposition they had to face Texas face Texas A and M Holy Cross Penn State Missouri Tulane Fordham They could have got themselves mangled man man- Once Football Great It wasn't always that way There was a time when they whipped out outa a mess of football tradition that wont won't be forgotten the forgotten the great vic vic- tory-garnished tory era of the when Chick Meehan's Violets brought down the biggest and the best But they became fed up with the Meehan uplift which uplift which they had pointedly created created and and they abolished abolished abolished abol abol- it then the team but not the schedule and yesterdays yesterday's action erasing the game finally resulted Fo Football thus passes from this country's largest university which also was among the first half dozen dozen dozen doz doz- en to play the game They started it in 1873 The peak then was reached in the so-called so Golden Age when Meehan came to N Y U and made that team a worthy contemporary contemporary contemporary con con- temporary of that eras era's super- super I greats in sports sports Babe Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Bill Tilden Bobby Jones and the rest of that titanic breed In 1931 Meehan resigned recruiting recruiting recruiting re re- re- re and subsidization were abolished and the struggle was from bad to worse worse two two victories in 1940 one in 1911 1941 and substantial deficits both seasons Dr Mal Mai Stevens the Violet coach since 1934 had a contract running into 1946 but N NY NYU Y U had a clause in it which cancels him automatIcally automatically automatically automat automat- along with the game When he foresaw approach Ch of the end enda a few days ago he generously offered offered offered of of- his services free for next season That however wasn't the answer to it all as he must have known and as the university council council council coun coun- cil was convinced finally Simple Logic The professors belatedly came to agreement on a simple matter of logic which even sports writers could perceive through preoccupation tion with horse bets prize fights and other things that left little time for pondering N Y Us U's lems All along the papers have been pointing out that you cant can't win football games without a football team and that you have to win to tomake tomake tomake make money An amazing number of persons can stay away from something they dont don't like You cant can't sell them character-building character if they are paying for a football game It didn't work at the University University University sity of Chicago nor at N Y U and eventually will run into the same difficulties at Yale L f. |
