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Show Meehan Says College GncT Sport Needs Pro Rulings Br LAWTON CARVER International News Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 21 Chick Meehin. on of the outstanding high-pressure manufacturers of football teams during the so-called golden age of sports in th '20a, today gave vent to a valedictory to th game as a follow-uD to his recent resignation from Manhattan college. Tha theme of It all was that ths colleges could profit by falling back on some of tha rules that make professional pro-fessional football a wids open, tremendous tre-mendous spectacle. Insisting that hs definitely haa left ths gridiron for good because of business interests that prevented his assuming additional duties as Manhattan officials wanted him to do, Msehan peered back through nearly two decades of playing and coaching and said: Goal Past Rule "I've always maintained that professional pro-fessional football has soma features that ths colleges should Include in their own rules. For ons thing. lU- J. Chick Meehan . . . "Put back goal posts where they belong," ho urges In football valedlctee-y. those goal posts should be Back up there where they belong on the goal line, where ths pros wisely have kept them. For another, ths ball should be moved In 15 yards, instead of 10, on out of bounds plays another attractive professional feature. "There la nothing fundamentally wrong with college football, but Just a few miner ehangea would make a more Interesting gams." I Meehan leaves football willingly, but not without regrets "Coaching has its hesrteaches, but it was fun," hs said. Hs indicated that tha most fun was when he was riding high at New York university, his salary in ths upper brackets and his fame nationwide. That was from 1925 to 1931. During thst time hs built a monument monu-ment for himself that still stands tha colorful uniforms now prevalent nearly everywhere. His N. Y. U. elevens boldly stepped out in violet le rales, with white epaulets, whits headgear and other eye filling innovations. in-novations. Has Right Idea Moreover, they won football games and packed in ths customers. In fact, the customers followed them. Meehan recalls one game with Carnegie Tech at Pittsburgh for which ths railroad ran more than a dosen special trains, added extra compartments to ths regular trains and still left a coupls of thousand thou-sand at ths station. Hia sigh possibly Indicated that those were ths days. Meehan also repeated his famoua recipe for getting together great elevens. It's old now but still good. "You simply go to a prep school and tell the educators that you want high type boys of character, the leaders, for your college. "Then you get the prep school coach out behind the shed snd tell him to maks sure a couple of good halfbacks ars included in the shipment." |