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Show Page 7 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951 SPORTLIGHT Football Hall of Fame Is Incomplete GRANTLAND RICE NEW YORK It was generally understood by everyone concerned or Interested that footballs Hall of Fame Honor Court was bound to make a few mistakes getting underway. Oversights were sure to occur in trying to name the first group of entries. The selecting committee, headed by Bill Cunningham, did a first-clas- s job. It made errors of omission. The two notable mistakes were leaving By of the basketball innovation. He was a master of precision. a college Hall of Fame. Yet he is one of the greatest when you take in his pro career. Too Many Stars I would rate Baugh, Graham and as the greatest of all Luckman The group selected to name the passers. first Hall of Fame list was certain I have forgotten the exact numto blow more than one great star. ber named for the first This couldnt be helped with so squad from the Hall many hundreds waiting to be called. of But Fame. dont forget there As my friend Dan Parker suggest500 or more been have at least ed What about Elmer Oliphant football players. Baugh was great Brickley probably Armys greatest player? Charley also a great kicker along with Football has ten stars to off and not enterStrong, Kercheval, Mooney and basketballs one. I mean coling Jock Sutherland one or two others. lege football. The pros are not as one of the great listed in this College nail of The Hall of Fame coaches of all time. Fame Let scramble. the Committee has a big job left in pros It w a s ridiculous, set a of Hall of Fame their up of course, to say correcting its early mistakes. Esown. in regard to Charley Brick-le-y Dr. pecially Sutherland that Fcr Otto and Graham Jock Sutherland, who example, didnt belong in the of ! Northwestern should the have been high in the first and first 20 named. The Browns would never have made group. good Doctor bein the first longed headed by five, THE Rockne and Haugh-ton- . He was one of the best. FICTION Rockne and Ilaughton were CORNER the two tops. Unless you bring By Richard Hill Wilkinson In Pop Warner who invented more plays than all the others a blast from the LAURA knew her first feeling of struck them like to put together. Pop happens when Jud took the whip Arctic. be the author of the single and Laura drew the heavy bear rugs from its socket and flicked it across double wing that is now knockthe backs of the plodding horses. about the children, and bound her She had been own scarf about her face. She could ing the T cockeyed. How Id like to have a sock at that T, the no longer hear the crying of the watching clouds pile out of youngsters, nor the clopping of the Pop told me last fall. It would be murder! the northwest with horses hoofs, nor Juds shouts. There was no point in looking up. How about You dont think so? amazing speed for Southern the past 15 minutes. But this was She tried it once. It was like being Tennessee, Princeton, California, Kentucky, Texas, UCLA April, and there was no wind at all. suspended in a great vacuum with (the team that wrecked California), Also, the day was mild, almost moving, screaming walls. Even the Michigan, Illinois in fact all of sultry. It was hard to imagine a outlines of the horses were blotted out the good teams in the game all blizzard even in Nebraska. The progress of the team slowed. must all. Or It nearly single wing. Beauty and Prince broke into a was no longer using the whip. Jud prove something. lumbering trot. The rhythm of the He sat humped forward, barely Yes, Rockne, Haughton and Pop crunching wheels of the heavy farm Warner would have to head the wagon Increased in tempo. Beneath visible behind a veil of snow. list. They are the Big Three of them, at the foot of the long slope, the coaches. They gave football Laura could see the buildings of AFTER awhile Laura had the the team was swinging more than anyone else. No one can their farm. in a great arc. A new terror seized dispute their positions. The cloud bank came toward them her The road was straight There But I still say Jock Sutherwith astonishing speed, hanging an was not a curve for miles. land belongs tn the first five. She screamed at Jud, tugged at impenetrable gray curtain from sky Perhaps you dont remember to earth as it swept across the his sheepskin coat. He bent down the time Jock made Notre prairie. Jud stood up and lashed and she tried to make him underDame break off her schedule out with the whip. stand. He shook his head and with Pittsburgh after Pittsburgh pointed down. She bent forward, Little Lucy began to cry, and had almost wrecked the South could barely make out the right a moment later Jud, junior, Bend Irish through six years? front wheel. It was running eveh joined in with lusty bawls. Jock was wrecking most of them with the whippletree, had not Laura huddled one under each at that time. His one mistake was turned at all. arm and said: Sh! Sh, now! trying to overpower Fordhams She settled down once more, huganxious lifted But her when she a without line Jock pass. great ging the children close. Cold crept eyes, she felt again the terror. failed to score in three consecutive In under the blankets. Snow piled The farm buildings were not more up in her lap and on her shoulders. years. But-- he was one of the best a than a quarter of a mile away. Now The world had gone mad. master of the running attack. He they could hear the roar of the Again she had that feeling of never liked the pass. That was wind. It drowned out the crunch of swinging around. She fought it unJocks weakness. It was the way wheels; it plucked Juds cries from til the horror of it threatened her his lips and sent them screaming sanity. Then she poked her head Howard Jones wrecked back over his shoulder. The blizzard from beneath the blankets.Jud was the air. crouched forward, tense, pulling the nigh rein. She beat against on Joe relieving distress of K8tf Brings relief 2 ways at once! ! ' 3 ,4 & .v All-Ameri- ca jkx All-Tim- e v' .wf-- II :: J v. work 2 ways at once ONE DAY, BACK IN 1928, THE FRESHMAN FOOTBALL COACH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TOOK OCCASION TO TELL RAY THAT HE SHOULDN'T PLAY FOOTBALL. OKAY-- NUSSPICKEL WAS A SENSATIONAL LINEMAN BUT- - WAS SO NEAR SIGHTED HE OCCASIONALLY TACKLED ONE OF HIS TEAM MATES. 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