Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 19 | Sports Mirror:

p ports Mirror John Mooney s who swing sving either to the extreme left or the extreme re c always dangerous hence it has been with some misgivings I have read of the proposals of several athletic leaders to sub- sub compulsOrY football for the thc proposed postwar military training S F viewed with alarm if IC we wc ma may infringe on the politicians politician's the attempts of several educators to replace orts with calisthenics before We Ve believe this is foolish in the thead find nd that it would fall Call But we also atso believe that when those experts Edward Slip Madigan University of oC Iowa 1 r f coach Elmer Layden commissioner of professional proCessional football rry MTV Wisconsin U UI grid coach attempt to prove football should replace compulsory military train train- ly Y arc off the beam too f i the first place vo wo do not Intend to enter Into the argument whether football is the greatest conditioning game in the except to say this It is generally agreed that both soccer crosse crose are d as more more rugged for the tho part parit par- par nt it t than football And If the athletic leaders believe belle sincerely American Can C'an youth for fori ports morts is the proper way ay to condition i combat which they mut if It they suggest that It replace military training then wh why not perfect the young Joun men Ing and wrestling which are true to hand-to-hand sports h hy waste time teaching the men to expertly or down field with their fists clenched to their chests when bate bat bat- e fought with guns or hand to hand hough ough there must be thousands of athletes in the armed today oday who are arc doing great work toward stamping out the features that walk like men in the south Pacific and the Ij Aryans in Europe our football coaches should realize too lillions mions illions of men arc are over o there fighting who never played a tIve game stronger than volleyball in their lives say say this Football alon along with all athletics is a a. great part American way of oC life Its It's a cinch that such participation hurts the players The country would lose Jose a lot If athletics be discontinued and replaced by ups sit-ups and other rudiments school of oC thought But football and other athletics lia a blanket cure-all cure which seems to be the leftist theory of caches eaches either t Listening Post uld Id Madigan l and La Laj Layden den in advocating ad foots foot- foot s against t compulsory or military training In the postwar pice pic- pic ic e dusting of off their er version lon of or the the- Statue of Liberty pia play playe e a B touchdown against the advocates ad of instead calisthenics ball