Show ri WHAT SAT HAT is the ruling factor in sport There can be only one answer It isn't th the manager or orthe orthe orthe the coach who too often picks up entirely too much credit It is always always al al- ways the material It is the fighter the the football player the player the baseball player It Is the fellow up front on the firing ring line During the recent winter whiter season football went on a wild rampage inthe in inthe inthe the shift of coaches There were shifts shUts all over the map Navy map Navy Michigan Harvard Yale Washington Washing Washing- ton and Kansas Then in the middle of the baseball baseball baseball base base- ball season there was another wild upheaval with Durocher going tc the Giants Shotton S t back to the Dodgers Dod Dod- Dodgers gers Dusty Cooke CookeS S 7 to the Phillies the Phillies-the the earlier rumors that 5 I r Joe McCarthy was wa through reports S of a family friction fric file I tion with the Athletics Athletics Ath Ath- CA trouble in I LEAHY St St. Louis Louig trouble trOUt trou- ou ble In hi Chicago too Chicago too many reports report to follow I What too many people overlook overlook overlook over over- look is this It is the material not the coach or the manager I that has the final say Certainly I the manager and coach coachI have roles to play play often often Important Important I tant taut roles But not even a aFrank aFrank aI I Frank Leahy or a Fritz Crisler I was as ever as Important as the I material No Leahy a great coach was ever up to a Lujack a Connor a Fischer or a rob ski Of Ot course a big part of a managers managers manager's man manS manSager's agers ager's job is to get the best material materi al That is also a big part of ot the coach's job in football football and and this goes for the colleges as well as the pros A winning baseball team needs that pitcher or that hitter more hitter more than one of ot them A winning college football team needs that passer ball carrier and nd blocker The coach gets far too much credit cred credo it for tor victory and far too much blame for defeat The same is true of a pennant race They pile too many olive blossoms on the winner and too many strands of f poison polson Ivyon ivy ivyon ivyon on the loser I i Many a big league manager has been made made and and many a one wrecked wrecked wrecked-by by the material he had Dont Don't forget torget this in hi the build build up up and the knock Start of 0 Passing 1 p The passing game in college I reached its peak last falL The colleges colleges col col- col leges had Bobby Layne of ot Texas Chuck Conerly of Mississippi Harry Gilmer of ot Alabama Johnny Lujack of ot Notre Dame Tony Minis of ot Penn Perm Ray Evans of Kansas Bob Chappius of Michigan and many others These have all moved over into the pro group With Paul Governali Sammy Baugh Sid Luckman Otto Graham Glenn Dobbs and others at work the passing game will reach another peak this falL Who started the passing game Heres Here's a contribution from Buck ONeil O'Neil a lusty timer old Dear Grant in hi column I was interested your I Ion on l end at West Point Inthe hi In hithe in inthe the decades purpled by time You spoke of ot Chicago and Michigan using the forward pass back in 1906 the year that the play was Introduced introduced introduced intro intro- I into football Chicago had a pretty fair sort of quarterback that year fellow named Walter Eckersall lie He was pounds of wildcat I and he is the man man man-I I believe believe- who caught Willie Heston Deston from behind in one game came between Chicago and Michigan No matter about that but Eckle Eckie threw passes to Fred Walker a afine afine ane fine ne end of the Maroon and beat the vaunted Minnesota team through the air Eckersall to Walker was one of the great pass combinations of their day and time tune Ahead of 0 His Time Glenn Warner had some great pass experts at Carlisle and one of the earliest combinations was Mt Pleasant to Exendine and Gardner Warner always ahead of ot his time in coaching developed the techI technique tech tech- of sending linemen down the I II I field with his ends to block out the I halfbacks The Indians were terI terrific ter ter- ter- ter I rifle in the air and of course their skill was attributed to some romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic bridge between the Indian and the he occult There was nothing mystic about the skill of the Indians although guys like and Gardner and that great lineman of the era who played end and tackle with equal skill end and nd aboriginal ferocity ferocity fero rero- city were really out of this world The foundation of Carlisle's Carlisles Carlisles Carlisle's Carlisles Carlisle's Car Car- lisles lisle's success was Vas laid on block block- Lug log the tho halfback Navy used the forward pass In 1913 1013 but it was a haphazard thing Harry lorry Blodgett a n Middle halfback told me that his orders were to fade tade five yards and throw the ball hard bard 5 5 5 5 1 55 s sI I S l h ri 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