Show OT r I GP R CE CE Another Side of Coaching PLANK has only two sides Ides but bu A there are many sides aides to coaching coaching coach coach- ing a football team The sere facts fact are that it Is probably the most sided most of all aU sports t 1 For example you may have noticed noticed no no- how the Yale football I squad qua d reported for fall aU practice Some 75 of them were on hand at 6 0 am a.m. Many were ready and dressed Grantland by or 5 IS and they found a smiling g fat at man wait waiting ing Ills name was wag al Herman lIerman Hickman Hickman Hick Hick- man or rounds of pure ability at all the turns tarns needed to handle a football squad Herman Herman Her nero man Is a very verJ floe fine coach He ne Is ls also a philosopher Sometimes known as the Smoky Mountain l Hornet homer he Is also a poet The main point is that this Yale squad in the daybreak grayness knew that win lose or draw it was going to have a lot of fun tun playing under the mountainous Herman lIerman Which is supposed to be the main idea of football At least that was the original idea since linee badly distorted distorted dis dis- and twisted out of shape on too many occasions Hickman hasn't the best material materia in the country this season He hasn't the best material in the Ivy league But Dut they will win a few games here and there there they'll they'll always be giving the best they have partly because they have a coach who knows the complicated all around business of coaching a football team which team which includes many more things than sheer expertness in devising devising devising de de- de- de plays or teaching funda Football has made A forward leap In I this direction In late years It has a far greater number num ber her who also understand the idea that football should also Include some fun Meet such coaches as Red fled Blaik Red Sanders Sanders San San- ders Marchy l Schwartz Lefty James Wes Fesler etc eta and you'll get the Idea But in this respect no one will wll have anything on Herman lIerman Hickman who also happens to be one of the hardest losers in the game He expresses expresses ex ex- presses the idea in a brief message Just lust received received- When Homer Hom smote the Ih rival M spine thine He H. made mad his rival l quit quil 0 or f faint i He H. socked rocked them bard harJ by flank and mullin line line line- And what hal has Homer got dot that 1 aint iI e Pro Footballs Football's Setup After a matter of some 25 or 30 years pro football Is getting its best chance this season to collect its full fun share of change There Thera was never so much sheer waste in any sport as pro football knew in its wrecking war years But that's all over now and there seems to be quite enough talent on hand to supply the 13 teams all set setto setto setto to go It would take a Delphic Delphie oracle super supercharged super to pick the two survivors survivors sur sur- from the two circuits There have been too many many shifts shUts back and forth too many exchanges too many bolstered teams from last fall tall Among those you can gamble will be up around the front are Greasy Neales Neale's Eagles and Paul Paw Browns Brown's Browns Others to be watch watched d Include Geor George e Hales Halas and his Chicago Bears Dears plus Steve Owens Owen's Giants and Red Strader's Yankees Y a n k e e c. c s. s Chicago's Cardinals Green Bays Bay's Packers Baltimore's Colts and Los Angeles' Angeles Rams are still doubtful quantities So are Detroit's De Dc troit's Lions But Sammy Baugh and an improved line still keeps Washington's Washington Redskins dangerous dangerous- always hard to beat This is sure lure a season of many many sudden ludden upsets and one thing thine Is dead sure you sure you are arc seeing greater passing this fall faU than you JOu ever saw law before Im I'm not Dot Io going to try to run ran up any aDY completed com corn list but a season leason that has Bangh Baugh Luckman Lujack Con Con- erly Graham Albert Tittle TIdwell and Ratter Ratters man should find the atmosphere packed with footballs headed for extended hands and arms The exhibition attendance was extremely good and wl when en the real shooting gets teta farther under way It should hold bold up for a while at while at least leat There will be bo the usual decline or crash for the steady losers You Youcan Youcan Youcan can judge judee this b by the number of patrons the Browns Athletics Reds Red and a few others have been drawing la in baseball e Closing Attendances Drop It Is U about time that tha club owners were giving elvin some 1 attention to the terrific attendance flop op September The rapid city of oi Brook Brooks lyn for tor example was wu playing plaIn to some lome 2000 souls only two weeks before the steamy pennant race nee to the wire Attendance figures from 1100 to 1900 1000 were tar far from mon They were often the order ol of the week This big crash was not due to any runaway races race |