Show Nearing Scandal ANOTHER NEW YEAR slid AS into view the universities of Southern Ohio State and a few were looking for new football Texas Ei J u s 1 the de- had caused of and about reached Rice the point of a It has been generally recognized that a great game and a magnificent sport in had become big business In late Big business has overshadowed the sporting we take the case of Jeff Cravath at Southern a well-known authority out this way Is a fine fellow and he wasn't a bad But Southern California has a big sporting program to Football does most of the Losing teams at Southern California in the last two years had fallen off some from other normal The fact that Cravath had won four Coast championships was The problem had now become an economic Southern being a private couldn't afford another bad I mean So Cravath bad to Football has reached the point where you must have a winning I earn or take a financial It has been shown that It costs leading colleges from to a year to run a football A bad year In the field means a bad year or even two at the box The alumni pressure on football coaches has become This pressure became so heavy this last fall that Blair Cherry of Wes of Ohio State and Marchie Schwartz of Stanford all I Cherry didn't even wait for the end of the It to happens that all three of these men are excellent sportsmen and on a high level as football Certainly Cherry and Fesler had two powerful rated In the national ranking most of the There was no demand for their They all decided there must be softer ways of making a The Coaching Tangle Part of the trouble first started when coaches began to jump three-or five-year contracts for better A coaching contract meant very but the university always got stung when a contract had to be paid Now universities have tried out the system of signing coaches to It remains to be seen how this scheme will work out when better offers are At least the universities won't be forced by any alumni group Into picking up six or se-en yean of a long-time Southern California had to pay Jeff Cravath to cancel the two years remaining on their There are now close to a lOu universities that should be rated on football's big-time This number takes in seven or eight big plus a number of well-known Institutions that don't belong to any Notre Dame Is on this latter So Is Santa St. Army and Now it seems to be a reasonable thing to say that all of these universities can't 1 have winning must be a defeat against every Col-I leges that set up long winning l streaks as a rule do so because they have softer schedules or much better And too often getting this material any so-called sanity This isn't always There are It may have been rough for them but Notre Dame's bad season and Army's defeat y Navy were very healthy So were Michigan's three Coaches complain that experts rate their teams far higher than they belong and then start panning them for bad There is a I deal to be said for this com-i A New Derby Hope A year ago the blossoming state of California had a new derby dream His name was Your a sprinter who was picked as the coming Derby and triple crown Your was a fine Now Santa Anita has Derby After going all out for Your Host the welt coast li a trifle more subdued about its new entry ar ther colt known as Gold |