Show i I P CE CAPT JOHNNY WHELCHEL and Rip MIler M her of 01 Nary Nally rate Eddie Prokop of Georg a Tech the best all around back they ye ve seen In years Wh What can Prokop do Captain Whelchel asked He then proceeded to answer Everything He can pass as well as Angelo he Bertelli-he can run with Cre Miller or anyone else he IS another Bob Odell on defense and he can kick I kickI Passer ball carrier blocker tack tackler Iler ler Ind k 1 what more can you do wIth only one pair of feet one pair of arms one body and one head I Prokop cannot carmot only do all of these things but he can do them themI I brill aptly antly The captain is per cent cor correct corI I MIler M ller said Prokop IS one of the best backs I ever S saw In add addi addia a t on to everything I else he also hap happens happens pens to be a great I competitor A combination of BertellI Odell and ial bas to be Grantland Pice something extra Prokop s aU all around play against Tu Tn Tulane lane on Saturday was the star lea fea Cure ture of the season a season crowded with great backs If there IS any professional league draft this winter Captain Whelchel added you ll 11 find Prokop the number one chOIce with some something thing to spare Saving the Game GameS S his subject Captain Whelchel had th s to say You can t pay tribute enough to all those overpowered teams that have taken heavy beat beatIngs beatings Ings week after week WIthout a chance to Win I mean such teams as Columbia Princeton Wisconsin Missouri Texas Christian Southern Methodist these Georgia and many others that knew they never had a chance on the winning s de It would have been easy enough to qu t and let the game go If that had hap happened happened we wouldn t have had any real football again for eight or ten years FIrst Shoestring Pass Dear Sir If you care to loo look back through 50 years of football here s an interesting angle For Just 50 years ago Yale and Princeton met on old Manhattan Field m in a game that Richard Harding DavIs writing for Harper s Weekly called The greatest sports spectacle New NewYork NewYork York or America has ever Wit Witnessed witnessed More than 28 v ere there The November date 30 1893 Both teams were unbeaten as yet The Princeton t captain I 1 grim shaggy haired was Doggy Trenchard a great end who ho was Frank Hinkey s end mate on Camp s sAll sAll All American of that year Trench Trenchard and ard dIed Just a fecal feVol weeks ago HIs passing left but three of the twenty two starters m in that game still alive Pete Ball et the Princeton cen center center ter Frank Butterworth the Yale safety man and George Adee also of Yale intriguing story of the game though won b Princeton 6 0 was that it marked the only time a long gain was made around send s end And It saw the first shoestring play ever pulled out of the bag Lea told me the story before his dea death th We d scored m in the first half and andere were ere lead ng SA In the second But Yale was as dangerous murder I Otis On the play m in quest on King the quarterback called for an ordinary nary off tackle smash But Trench Trenchard and ard the captain lin demurred Doggy was a gambler and he was captain and had the last word word-In these days He told King to call the dan dangerous dangerous long pass noth ng more than a modern lateral to a man In motion Then Ihen King pulled the ruse fooled He went over and started to bawl me out savagely for lor my failure to carry out my as- as assignment Just stood tood there fascinated De Be d never heard such sucha a tongue lashing ill m public Mean lean Meanwhile while hIle frank Morse was crouched over by the sideline tying his shoe shoe- shoelace shoelace lace Trenchard stood hack back of the center called the signals quickly took the ball from Ballet Balliet and rifled it out to Morse lorse The latter went 50 yards down the sideline before But But- Butterworth Butterworth pulled him down from be- be behind behind hind on the five No we didn t score after that but we had Yale In a hole from which they could never get out We kept em pinned down there all the rest of the way I Luckman Luchman Baugh Hutson If you happened to own or coach a prof professional football team and you could p ek ck one of three men Sid Luckman Sammy Baugh or Don I Hutson which name would you reach for No one can challenge the fact that these tI ree men have been of great greater or er value than any other stars Bronko was the great great- greatest greatest est porter back tn in history Cht Chi es cs nas the best of all t re Ie run nt nl g ba Its us lint But Sid Sammy and 0 hate hale d dine ne the most damage |