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Show Football Player Seldom Makes Good at Baseball The football player who "doubles" at baseball and becomes a great baseball base-ball player Is rare. For Instance, MathewKon was a star football player at Bucknell, Dave Fultz, one of the great stars In baseball of a generation genera-tion ago, was an All-American at football. foot-ball. Paul Custner, pitching and out-fieldlng out-fieldlng star at Notre Damn, whom the majors are after, came near reaching reach-ing the Ail-American heights. For the most part, however, star baseball players play-ers coming from the colleges are not worked very much In football. Many athletic directors, If they have a star baseball player, keep him from the more dangerous game of football, saving sav-ing him for the diamond. For Instance, when at Michigan, George Slsler had everything to niale him a great football player. Yost saw a gridiron gem In Slsler, but saw, too, that baseball was the place where he would win fame for Michigan. |