Show Kazmaier Is Among Greatest Backs By GRANTLAND RICE NEW YORK It may be considered a piece of heresy to compare any modern back with Red Jim Ernie Walter Eckersall and one or two more from the glory road of the But that is the way it happens to be at this date with a number of football experts in their rating of Dick Dick Kazmaier is the Princeton pass-jk er and runner who a good Cornell l against the big red Rl H in shining star most of Princeton's There has been no game since Dick put on an orange and black jersey wherein he failed to You might remember that from was the sole surviving member from Princeton's brilliant offensive squad last The other 10 regulars had left with younger talent coming What happened in his Cornell Kazmaier completed 15 out of 17 passes for close to a He picked up more than yards with his right His legs gathered in an additional yards as a ball He led an attack that scored 53 points against an unbeaten rated Princeton's equal before the In my opinion Kazmaier was probably the best back of considering his all-around As far back as 1888 and 1889 Princeton had a back known as Knowlton Princeton never had a better all-around back until Kazmaier came And it isn't a question now as to whether Kazmaier is the best back of which he undoubtedly but as to how he will be ranked with the best backs of I doubt that anyone has had the amazing over-all running elusive-ness of Grange and But Dick a star runner on his is a much better passer than the redhead or the Indians in their Princeton's High Place More than a few of us placed Princeton on a par with Tennessee or any other college squad 1 fall The Tiger may have been even His place today Is equally although it is difficult to get many football writers away from the east to give an Ivy team much Certainly Charlie Caldwell is again In the running as coach of the Everyone knows Tennessee's all-around But so far her schedule hasn't been too It teams are to be ranked on what they have Michigan State has had a flock ol close and harrowing Illinois has had a terrific In the matter of accomplishment it could be accorded first The have handled Washington and In the Blue and Orange has one of the year's star Illinois and Georgia Tech have handled the rougher paths among the top although Southern California must be given a high And so must The game they are still talking about is Army's stand against a good Columbia The goal-line play of Red Blaik's high-spirited squad won't be soon Certainly not by Where's The Anyone who cares to look back over Saturday's scores might stand up and ask one simple become of football's Here may be found all the one needs of how far the defense has slipped back of the Almost any team can even when it is The main answer is this the great improvement in forward passing both concerning the passers and the Potent passers are plentiful across the There was a time when football only had two or three high-class They were extremely Now they clog up the Henrich and so many more you can hardly count This is the only answer I can give passer piles up 20 or 27 points against a good Notre Dame team and scorns any form of running That was Fred The Southwest is packed with riflemen who can hit a receiver in the eye at 40 Notre Dame's Place Where will Notre Dame's place be at the end of the road for Frank Leahy will you that his team has done far better than he thought it At the season's start I wrote asking Frank to be on a radio program In November be glad to be with he you don't mind having th of a team that has lost five games by that He won four of the |