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Show fiears flay They Know Way to Clasroom, Too Football ability will be relatively relative-ly unimportant. California seeki a foa whoaa ideaU would make thofr of Sir Galahad appear aj tawdry aa a aerond story work- r'-. whose scholastic Jtantiardt are no high that Einstein would have to take entrance examinations; examina-tions; and whose sportsmanship 1 is so pronounced that they would put the fox on horseback and let him chase them. In other words, or nrthrr hi California's own-words. own-words. "We desire to meet a team from a school whose stand- If the Bears find such a team to oppose them, the Rose bowl game should be interesting to watch. Everything, of necessity, will be a little different. The officials, of course, will be uf Hie aaine .tilth caliber as the teams. I suggest Nicholas Murray Mur-ray Butler for referee; the arch-Chief arch-Chief Justice Hughes tu field judge, and Emily Post, of course, for head linesman. I can visualize the kickoff and the first few minutes of play. Dr. Butler, wearing cap and gown and carrying a lyre instead of a whistle, whis-tle, would call the two captains to the center of the field and after a few brief words of instruction in-struction in Latin, the winner of the toAsarum, or tosa. would insist in-sist that the loser take first choice. Then the 22 Phi Beta Kappa with a great show of fine fellowship fellow-ship laughingly would take their plaees on the field. The kickoff would be ignored because with the roar of the crowd the 22 scholars wn)lfj whip thn nnthonlf to record their observations of mob psychology. Justice Hughes would dissent and the game would go on. The first huddle would take 43 minutes because one of the learned group would be bound to tutc some provocative question concerning Elizabethan drama or Da Vinci as the world's greatest mind. This, naturally, would result re-sult in an informal discussion (Continued on Pac Twenty) Bv HENRY Mrl.EMORE 1 nitrd Pre S porta Writer RAX FRANCISCO Nov 22 - tUI'i- The original Uitml of the 1 Rose bowl game was to match the best team in the west with thft atrnngpt alrven of any Other, section of the country in the hope that the outstanding football game of the year would be the result. This year, however, there la a feeling that the California Bears, who will represent the west at Pasadena on New Year's day. are going to make a radical departure from the original plan. The Bears, one hears, plan to select a Rose bowl opponent on an entirely new basis. Bears Seek Rival On Scholastic Par (Continued from Page Fourteen) group. During the delayed hud-die, hud-die, the opponents would break Into small groups.. Some would debate, some would hold spelling bees, soma would utilize the time In writing to their mothers, inclosing inclos-ing report cards. Finally the gam would be resumed re-sumed with the thoughtful quarterbacks quar-terbacks calling only for those plays which would send the ball carriers through positions defended defend-ed by men majoring In th same subjects as they. This would provide pro-vide for spirited little discussions on familiar subjects as the players play-ers untangled themselves. After the game the players would all go to the public library and break training by reading Esquire. |