Show Z 77 7 7 THE THE widest gap between college and pro football this fall will involve the financial side the colleges should play to the largest crowds they have ever known all at top prices and reduced expenses it if even part of the sanity code works but out the pros due to the knockdown and drag out cut your throat competition between the na dional and the all Grantland Grantlan Kice dRice america conf confer er ence can easily lead to a financial debacle I 1 don t believe more than one pos sibly two of the A A C teams can break even at least four or five will take a drubbing that runs frona from to in losses cleve land san francisco and new york might break even or make a little in the national I 1 league eague the losses will be nothing like those in some A A C cities but due to much heavier pay roll ex benses there will be few profits the national league grabbed mosi most of the college stars of 1947 lujack conerly connor layne evans gilmer on and on the A A C passed up the stars al though Chap chappuis puls must be rated one of them the chicago rockets caught be tween the bears and the cardinals two great teams may take the heaviest financial socking possibly a touch the brooklyn dodgers opening to 16 when they needed 30 to break even badly beaten in their opener may take the next dipping at or the national league Is luckier in having such teams as the giants bears redskins eagles packers etc established in cities where they have been planted for years george marshall of the redskin redskins Is sold out in advance each season n although george and many football writers are not exactly on speaking terms As long as mr marshall doesn doean t care why should anybody else bother he has a monopoly that also wont won t make much money in this football war tun tim mara and george halas have had the two richest franchises they should have they built up pro football they ve been on the job ob 27 years there is certainly a place for two big leagues but in many ways the new league was badly arranged and badly directed as its 4 losses prove what will happen nobody knows but it may not be pleasant reading tor for any stockholder in either league the college side on the playing side the pros will have a great season but the col leges will have an even greater playing season plus a far more cheerful financial side this should be one of the top years of college football no matter what section you turn to the east faces one of its most interesting campaigns penn state army pennsylvania princeton co lumbia navy rutgers holy cross villanova yale harvard dart mauu mouth boston college on and on here penn state is the team to beat then move to the midwest look at what they have to offer notre dame michigan purdue minne sola sota and northwestern now to the southwest S M U T C U texal texas and rice the south presents such teams as north carolina georgia tech 4 vanderbilt mississippi state alabama georgia I 1 can give you over 50 col j lege squads along a high level who will draw capacity crowds for example southern califor nia wit may win no title of any sort but it will outdraw any pro team at least two to one on the finan caal side so will notre dame michigan ohio state and call cali tornia under the new sanity code the colleges wont be involved in any expenses involved in building up their teams thie this problem will be put up to the alumni in the old days some football players would die for dear old rutgers now some rather wealthy alumnus will go broke for his team whether it is in the big nine the south the southwest or the east athletes wont suffer but don t let anyone tell you thai that my any section has gone shy in taking care are of its athletes not by an university or by any college but bui by certain proud and rather wealth citizens who might be operating ope from rom new york or chicago or ana a ther other spot the sanity code isn t going tc t work perfectly but it U should help at t least there might be a lor from rom the 5 and 10 paid tc t ertain certain stars in many cases mor mort han than the pros get virginia s refusal to adopt th N C A A sanity code has some what shaken the apple cart om oro penalty Is refusal to let the offen offender dej play lay an N C A A team |