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Show I Stanford May Make Bid To Siftn Clipper Smith v i" ZZL-1 , - By HABBf GRAYSOM N. E. A. Sports Editor NEW YORK, Nov. S Stanford university is reported report-ed seeking Maurice (Clipper) Smith as Its head football coach. Smith, who now coaches VUlanova, formerly directed the gridiron activities activi-ties of Santa Clara. Cornell's never to be forgotten for-gotten victory over Ohio State was a fine thing for eastern football and the cloistered Ivy league In particular. par-ticular. Something like that has to happen every now and then or the folks In the hinterland hinter-land would suspect that colleges col-leges played high school football along the Atlantic seaboard and that only a minimum of poison remained In the Ivy loop. But Carl G. Snavely, being be-ing congratulated on one of the grandest triumphs ever turned In on a gridiron, refuses re-fuses to capitalize on the general supposition that the Big Red's conquest was on of brain over brawn, etc. "Football material Is evenly even-ly distributed throughout the country," says Snavely, who has been around. "It runs In cycles. A school will have good teams for two r three years when It Is fortunate for-tunate to obtain a good class of boys. Cornell, for example, exam-ple, will not have high grade teams as frequently as Ohio State or most any other state Institution. This is because we make no concentrated drives for prospects at Ithaca." It goes without saying that Snavely considers Cornell's smashing decision over Ohio State . . . after spotting the bulky Buckeyes a two-touchdown lead In the early going . . . the greatest ever scored by a club under his direction. Ohio State booked Cornell as a breather. The game was billed as a Roman holiday holi-day In football mad Columbus. Colum-bus. But, as one poetical observer ob-server remarked: "The Christians turned on the savage sav-age beast and made him say 'uncle.' " MAURICE (Clipper) Smith The old( mousetrapper refused re-fused to be stampeded by ' what he was told and read of Ohio State's numbers, size, speed, skill and power. |