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Show SPORTLICHT Pro and Con on Big and Little By GRANTLAND RICE The coach looked up with a happy smile As he turned and he spoke to me "This is the greatest Hart, at the age of 20, Is 6 feet, 4 Inches, weighing 245 pounds. Toneff at tackle Is only 240. Martin at the other tackle is around 220. Minnesota goes far beyond this. Tonnemaker at center is only 240. A great center. Nomellinl, a tackle, is 255. Ekberg, the other tackle, is 255. So here are three linemen who have a total displacement of 750 pounds. And it might be mentioned that Martin, Hart, Toneff, Tonnemaker, Ton-nemaker, Ekberg and Nomellinl Nomel-linl can all move. There Is nothing lumbering in their u'nrl, Iln ri nt VnfrA TlAmf la ZL L year Vie known," lie said with a look of glee. "This is my finest season yet, Whatever the old grads say. And I say my prayers as I go to bed For what fate's sent Grantland Hire "Whaddya mean? I said to him. as fast as most backs; In addition ad-dition to being a great end and a fine tackle he is also an able pass receiver. I doubt that football foot-ball has another man quite as valuable as Leon Hart 245 pounds of speed, experience and about all it takes. Imagine such fast backs as Williams, Wil-liams, Sitko, Coutre, Gay, Swisto-wicz. Swisto-wicz. Spaniel, Mazur and others working back of that crashing Notre Dame line? Or such backs as Bye, Gregory and others working back of Minnesota's Min-nesota's set of mastodons and mammoths, including one or two dinosauri comparatively speaking, speak-ing, of course? Football's Big Gap One main trouble with football's schedules is the big gap that often separates rivals. For example Cornell was 50 points better than Yale and Army was at least 70 points better than Harvard. Notre Dame could have run well over 50 points against Tulane. Army and Navy should have exchanged ex-changed schedules these last two years. Army was equipped to face Navy's schedule and Navy could have done extremely well with Army's schedule. One of the main features of the year so far is the rise of Captain Tom Hamilton's Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Panthers. They have beaten the team that beat "With all those no good bums You've lost five games and you'll lose some more Before December comes." "I know that, pal, but remember this He said, with his eyes aflame "l don't have to play Minnesota, kid And 1 don't have to meet Notre Dame." What Price Big Men? On a recent football excursion with Gene Tunney, Bernard Gim-bel Gim-bel and General Reed Kilpatrick a slight argument arose as to the value of weight and size. It was Bernie Gimbel's idea that a player weighing 190 pounds was big enough for anybody. "How much better football players do yon want than Doak Walker of SMU or Charley Justice of North Carolina?" Gimbel asked. "They stand at 1G5 or 168. Red Grange was 175. Jim Thorpe was around 180. I'm not a great believer in these Z40 or 250 pound mastodons." masto-dons." "It depends on how they can move around," General Kilpatrick said. "If they can move, weight's bound to help." Kilpatrick was a 210 pounder at Yale one of the all-time all-time greats. Anyway the debate took us westward west-ward to a pair of teams known as Notre Dame and Minnesota. Bernie Bern-ie Gimbel's side of the argument Michigan. Here's a nod to coach Walter Milligan who has turned in one of the season's best jobs. And we might as well slip another anoth-er chaplet of wild plum blossoms lo Paul Bryant, Kentucky's coach Paul Bryant is one of the best oi the younger coaches. He is an old Alabama end, brought up under Frank Thomas, one of the masters Mississippi was rated a good chance against Kentucky and Kentucky Ken-tucky won 47 to 0. Kentucky beat Georgia 25 to 0. was right most of the time. But recalling what happened to Tulane and Ohio State we felt something like Steve Owen who saw Minnesota practice "I was glad I was on the side lines," Steve said, "at least R0 yards away." The men I happened to think about were Jim Martin, Leon Hart and tarkle Bob Toneff of Notre Dame Clayton Tonne-maker, Tonne-maker, Leo Nomellinl and Jerry Jer-ry Ekberg of Minnesota. I.eon |