Show T 1 Football Loses Stars to Diamond R nR ANTI AND RICE AS A RULE most good baseball players in college give up football to hang on with the so-called national Joe Gordon at Oregon was a star football one of the He gave up football for Greasy offered Al Dark a big check to play football for his Dark turned the offer He took less pay for Theodore Barnard star football player from one of the game's had any number of pro football He went with Cincinnati's Reds where he is doing quite So did Lloyd Merriman of one of the best on the West who also quit football to play baseball with looking young offered a bonus of but who happened to like football He turned down ten fabulous big-league offers to gc to Minnesota and throw passes for the you about Paul writes a former Minnesota back-field mai is the hero of this my opinion he might be better than Johnson or Cy He Is the greatest looking kid pitcher I ever He is with fine control and a fine good is Before entering Minnesota at the age of 19 he pitched six consecutive games at high schools and much tougher In these six games he averaged 22 strikeouts a I know of at least ten big-league scouts who have been on his I know of several fabulous offers he has He h a s everything a great pitcher I still feel he might be the greatest of them But he has one He likes football better thau He would rather play football for nothing than baseball for a I mean As a freshman he threw three touchdown passes against Minnesota's But I still wish he had gone In for He would have made all of these other bonus kids look Uke More About Giel I followed young Giel this I knew he was with a rather ragged Minnesota Is now in what they call the rebuilding with Bernie Bierman out and Wes Fesler Yet with this faulty support threw two or three touchdown passes against a far better He was the star of the So he can't be all dream all George an old Minnesota rates Giel the best pitching prospect he ever And Rogers has seen his But that isn't the odd The odd part is that while most college-football players are on college payrolls where the good baseball players are ducking football jobs this young sophomore Giel is turning down more money than Curt Simmons or Wakefield ever to play football for nothing at all except the fun of It has been sr long since I've seen or heard of an amateur doing something for fun when he could get money for some other game that Paul case seems out of the It will be Interesting to see what happens to him as a baseball pitcher after he finishes his football Saving Football If football is to be modified and possibly saved from almost complete destruction we believe that Chancellor Harvle Branscomb of Vanderbilt University has most of the correct Reduction of time demanded of the college football specifically elimination of spring Elimination of bowl games because they place such extraordinary premiums upon Reduction in the number of football scholarships to a point where the athletic budget no longer is a major financial Limitation of intercollegiate competition to bona fide college students and planning of physical education when from the standpoint of the student's future rather than from the standpoint of getting and keeping athletes in Elimination of unlimited substitutions that resulted in a boy's being trained for one play or one type of play and in Elimination of special funds for current athletic whether contributed by race downtown quarterback clubs or For there is no real reason for the terrific cost of football We know of several colleges that finished over in the hole last Others tell us it takes around to run a football When a college requires double platoons and and hands out over a hundred the cost runs |