Show P CE College Football and 1913 What will happen to the colleges colleges- and college football th s year In the first place this IS a matter entirely up tr td the war department In the second place It Is also a matter that interests many m millions Here IS a t p from inside sources In the war department department- In 1943 1913 we will take over or maybe colleges and ties At least of the 18 and 19 year old boys will be as assigned assigned signed to thIS class They will he be draft drafted drafted ed but the p ck of the draft WIll be gIven over to ROTC r training These men will be trained for officers especially In the fue flying corps where we are look 11 mg ing for at least 70 Grantland RIce add fi ers ens Th s IS a dIfferent sort of war warThe warThe The only colleges and t es that fuat can get by are those p eked for war tra ring After 1942 the war department will have full charge not college presIdents who are m in complete accord with the war department program The New Program It IS my bel of ef that so far as 1913 IS concerned football should be given en first place m in any physical tram train training mg ing Football Isn t but war It IS the closest th ng we have to war ar Football IS the best tram train ng for forwar forwar war As references Ill give you youGen Gen Douglas 1 M and Capt 31 1 ke Moran of the good sh p Bo se who sank SIX Jap warsh p pa m in 27 m Both are staunch bel every evers m in foot football football I ball values for war But what sort of college football program will we have for 1943 Many m in the war department want wantonly wantonly only an intramural program In Inthis Inthis this respect they are per cent wrong On both the physical training and the morale Sides football or any other sport needs outside compete ton t on Men m in the service know th s much better than head men m in Washing Washington ton These servIcemen want to beat somebody not else themselves There are too many m in Wash ng ton who vho don t happen to understand this psychologIcal angle which IS ISan isan an Important one There IS no way they can get close enough to mill ons of service service- servicemen servicemen men who know what they want The Needed Program Granting the fact that football IS ISa isa a badly needed ingredient m in our na national training whIch program no sane person den there es-there should be outs de competition at close travel traveling mg ing range There should be no faraway inter intersectional sectional games But there are any number of teams who ho are fairly close neIghbors where there fuere IS a homespun rIvalry where traveling dIstances are short The East can play against the East the South against the fue South South- the M 34 against the Midwest and the the Southwest Far West only against the Far West Until the war IS over national champIOnships are entirely out of order Long trips are out of order IntersectIOnal games are out of or order order der Very few people expect sports as usual They know that far reaching changes are inevitable But It so happens thiS country has teams m in every sectIOn that fuat can play among themselves on a high basIs of skill WIth a neighborhood rIvalry that IS far more interesting than any outs de challenge For Harvard example Yale and Princeton Georgia Georgia Tech Alabama and Boston Auburn Col College College lege and Holy Cross Army and Southern Navy Cal and UCLA UCLA- Stanford and the CalifornIa Texas teams teams-on and on onI I W th the war department taking over so many colleges and universe ties the r major mistake would be beto beto to abolish football Their second major mIstake would be to abol sh all outsIde tion They should let these colleges car carry carry ry on WIth what they have left We Weare Weare are think ng no v only In terms of physIcal condition competitive training and morale The These e are factors that can t be Ig Ignored ignored nored even by those m in charge at Washington who cla m to have more important matters to think about For tally cally thIs ent re college enlistment will be in war servIce only waiting the call tp 19 ac active bye tive duty Magni Job The services are doing a magnificent cent Job In maintaining pI fit ness army navy marines and coast guard They are g mIl muI mIllions lions the chance to box swim wres wrestle tie tle run and Jump I This same program should be car carI I reed through for the remainder of the for nation tl ti e a kids coming up I and for the older men who have yet yetto yetto to he be called We have concentrated ed cd too much on the outstanding few I who the others needed thiS training less than |