Show 14 WITH wand ITH all the busy gossip of pay and in college football that now rides in the autumn air got get tho the general iden idea from hon anny sources that good students and good football players belong to two different lon leagues gues this happens to bo be entirely incorrect on a general average tho the good student still makes tho the better football player and in tho the great major ity fly of cases case the football player h has 11 s to be a better student than the college co elege overage average to keep on playing football there are exec exceptions P of course I 1 am now speaking of Gr grantland atilland nice itice the leading average per cent tho best team 1 ever had at dartmouth jess clawley writes me was practically all phi beta kappa this learn cam was quite bulto unusual they yere certainly not noted for their man power but they went through the season unbeaten that year I 1 could put a team on the field no man playing out of position no man under a second string and every one a beta bein kappa rating scholarly f warriors the varsity team included in tho the backfield dooley Oberland cr hall arid leavitt ends Dj bjorkman kelly and sage line whittaker hardy deal parker and smith any sane conch coach wants a good type of student any aily sano sane coach knows how much intelligence counts for tra tramp mp athletes are rarely helpful especially esp chally in hard games I 1 like a liar hard d fast running back end and also good blockers and rugged tac tacklers klers but id like to see them oil all phi beta kappas ka p smartness also counts just as the letter from jess hawley cams came in we stopped stepped into the of this football debate tell me this writes 11 II L F r why a team composed of 15 carnegie unit men be a better and a smatter smarter team than ono one composed of many who cant pass pasa four carnegie units tho the carm carnegie agle unit Is a scholastic entrance rating why a team talat that demands high scholarship standards bo be better than one that bother about that side of tho the college fence something I 1 cant fig ure ur elbut tout it if football Is supposed tup posed to demand brains as well as phy physical speed or power I 1 drains brains and drawn in the first place find among many of the leading teams today uch such as cornell Cor noll michigan minnesota ota pennsylvania stanford washington georgia tech notre dame and others that only good students got get by I 1 dont mean phi beta kappis I 1 mean good average grades hut but there hero Is another side it Is almost impossible for teams that carry the higher entrance or classroom units to go in for the proselyte prose lyt ing pay combination they cant get the men in and they cant keep keels them in either if they happen to slip by teams that have lighter entrance standards easier classroom work aan can shoot at the held and got get stars others could never hope to get I 1 could name you 20 men who tried to get into certain colleges make tho the grade and then camo came back on rival tean to beat those colleges Is that what you call a fair field and no favor the main trouble in college foot ball today Is the scout pursuit and the offers made to high school and prep school stars you might bo be surprised to know how many of these havo have told me of the offers they hey were made and ive discovered they usually accepted tho the best offer which is inne too good for the kid you know that here Is another angle the chief trouble comes from the demand of alumni for a winning team and from the pressure put on conches coaches to get a winning team or get fired not universal Uni venal this is not universal also you might remember that a big change for or the better is under way vay some universities are developing brains indiana gave do mcmillin a 10 year contract win lose draw or anything else texas has given dana dable bib le a 10 year contract and matty bell has about the same arrangement at S M U bill alexander of georgia tech runs for life ike who ever heard of a latin greek or E english prof hired on a one year contract make alake lem cm homers or vir glis or shelleys Shell cys or get firidl I 1 recall the time that georgia alumni were demanding the scalp of harry ephre achre in the middle ot of a tough season mehre had led georgia to five consecutive victories over yale better then than yale would rate today I 1 was in the middle of that 1 morass I 1 know mal stevens lou little and ether leading conches coaches i rat ut ed mabre among the leaders so georgia let him go to mississippi then well down in the list check an on the comparative sho showings whigs of f georgia and mississippi since mehre left athans ions |