Show Longest Pass Pass' Rift Reopened By ROGER KOGEE A. A BERKELEY Cal Cat Oct 18 UP One One of footballs football's moat famous controversies how controversIes how far one of the first and most moat spectacular competed completed com corn forward passes In grid history his hla- tory ry actually traveled In the air air air- remained unsettled today Dr Harold P. P Brick Muller perhaps the University of California's Califor CalIfor- nias nia's most outstanding around all athlete last night Btu stuck lc by his guess of nearly 24 years stand- stand ing ng He Ho refused to claim more than han 65 to 70 yards for his pass from midfield to the Ohio State yard three line In the 1921 California Call Cali fornia fomia Rose ROBe bowl game It couldn't have been more than 70 yards yard he Insisted Advance reports of at an Elks club banquet which Muller attended attend attend- ed last night had it that the former American all back and Olympic track star would settle the long kept mystery But Muller Muller Mul Mul- ler told instead of an unidentified Negro at a California state reform school whom he claimed to have seen throw an 85 yard passe Experts today still sUll were arguing arguing ar- ar guing over the distance traveled In air of Muller's pass caught by End Brodle Brodie Stephens Estimates Estimates Estimates Esti Esti- mates ranged from yards to nearly 90 The latter would eclipse the record yard 87 completed completed com corn p pass credited to Bradbury Robinson of St. St Louis university In 1906 by some sports record books Two experts who said they remembered remembered remembered re re- re- re watching the game said last night the pass was thrown at least 72 yards They recalled that Brick threw the ball ban from approximately 18 yards I behind the line of ot scrimmage on the yard 50 line Une That plus the diagonal distance nce to the corner of the field where Stephens caught the ball ban could account for at least another seven yards they theorized |