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Show I SPORTLIGHT New Problem Plagues Football By GRANTLAND RICE leges, football players don t come free. There is the matter of scholarships, scholar-ships, books (too often cash), training train-ing tables, equipment, traveling expenses, ex-penses, all in addition to the coaching coach-ing staffs. More than a few colleges have admitted that lt costs a big-time university or college $250,000 a year to run a football team. Not many colleges can stand that pace. Army, Navy, Michigan, Ohio State, Texas, SMU and a few others can. Tennessee and Kentucky can, as long as they collect $100,000 in Bowl money every year. But they can't all crowd Into bowls every season. The Alligator Bowl at Jacksonville Jackson-ville has now taken its place among the leaders, and this means four big bowls outside of the Rose. But even this can't take care of all football, if Bobby Dodd is right. The Two Problems Football has moved Into the television tele-vision tangle in the same manner. Maxims From Methuselah Take your pick from the tipsters, tip-sters, who give you the winning horse, But kindly remember the answer an-swer In the heart of your black remorse. Horse racing's an opium dream, beyond all dreams ever spun. Where every sad bloke in the mob should have won every race that was run. Did you ever notice, my friend, In the race track's grotto of tears, How many go to the Seller's maw how few to the lone Cashier's? Did you ever notice, old pal, In the race tracks' dizzy spin There are ninety ways that a horse can lose with only one way to win? Football's Double Trouble Bobby Dodd, head coach and athletic director at Georgia Tech, is one of the ablest men in football. This goes both for coaching and handling all football problems. He has been on the job for at least 20 years, one way or another, so be doesn't have to guess. lSLI It so happens that football already has one major problem on the financial side. This is television tele-vision and the problem Is still neck high. Now, according to Bobby Dodd, football foot-ball has another it has a committee, neaaea oy Captain Tom Hamilton of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, working out a plan of partial TV use. No one can say In advance just how effective this plan for stopping bankruptcy will be. But Hamilton happens to be one of the smartest football executives the game has, and he believes the situation can be worked out There will be a limited number of live TV contests, and the entire college field must work together. Two or three big teams could break away to work on their own and wreck the entire plan. Just what will happen to Bobby Dodd's complaint about unlimited substitution and the double-platoon system is something that must be taken up later. I understand a big battle will take place to move the game back to its old methods of substitution. The Importance of Putting For a great many years theie have been two steamed-up schools of thought among golfers about the importance or overimportance of putting, compared to wood and iron play. In scoring a 72 for 18 holes, you are supposed to have taken 36 strokes with some 13 other clubs, and 36 strokes with the putter. Is the size of the cup responsible? Should it be what lt is today, or larger or smaller? It's a question. Millions of golfers know the feeling feel-ing of hitting a fine drive, a fine iron and later having a three- or four-foot putt quiver on the .lip of the cup without dropping. The half-inch half-inch putt remaining costs as much as a 250-yard drive. .. r. prooiem oi even Grantland Rk. deeper depth. is the expense of the two-platoon system and unlimited substitution. Dodd recently told Ed Danforth, veteran sports editor, that only two teams in the big Southeastern Conference Con-ference were solvent. "These two are Tennessee and Kentucky," Dodd said. "And the reason they are solvent Is they still have something left from their bowl money two big bowl seasons in the Cotton and Sugar shows. "Florida and Miami have big advances from the race tracks and dog tracks. But I can tell you the rest of us are up against it financially, and are carrying a load we can't handle too long." Dodd then goes on to point out what the double-platoon system means. According to Dodd, who certainly ought to know, "it means 100 players and 12 coaches in place of 50 players and six coaches. We only needed 50 players and six coaches in 1945." There is another point that Coach Dodd did not stress. In most col- |