Show Ol i GP TilE THE off trails of football that rarely lead to the major headlines heeds heed lines can ean lake take you into a country Just as Interesting as Minnesota Stanford Texas A. A k M. M Boston Doston college and end Tennessee For example during the late World Series In Cincinnati I ran across a number of t old old time football t players who told me 5 about a back by the lr rt i. i name of Jackie Hunt of Marshall college 55 a in Huntington W W. 4 i Va I played against g George Gipp one timer old said and Id I'd rather have Hunt k than Gipp Grantland Rice C pl pled played ed aga against mi CHIT Battles a another an an- other reported and Ill I'll U take Hunt over Battles He lie Is le Just as good a a ball carrier a great kicker a fine be passer and a star defensive back When good football players tell tellI I you about a fellow who is better than and Battles you begin to take notice So two months ago I J JI Ii I crawled a a trifle tribe out on the limb for forI I Jackie Hunt Being on the trail off away from the b beaten ten pack Hunt Dant was hard to follow But he was wa the big factor In beating V. V P. P I. I and also In scoring coring 19 points against Wake FOIest Forest Forest For For- est est a team good enough to beat North Carolina 12 lZ to 0 O. Picking up what I could here and there after all aU there are over COO college teams playing ZOO games ramel each week I 1 discovered Jackie Hunt Bunt was waa doing all sU right I The next Investigation discovered that he was the leading scorer of the country well ahead of such people people peo pea I pie as Harmon and Kimbrough and the rest About Jackie Hunt About this time Urne I ran Into Jock Sutherland the Dodger mandarin I 1 know about Hunt Bunt Jock said ald We wanted him at Pittsburgh He Be was the best high school back In America that year Big fast ft pass pass- passer er et ball carrier and nd kicker loaded with exceptional football spirit But Hunt Bant wanted to stay Itay In his home hometown hometown hometown town at Huntington with Marshall He De felt feU that Huntington was where he be belonged Even as a high school chool player he be was an outstanding star More than a few leading colleges tried to explain to Hunt that he be could take the headlines away from Harmon and Kimbrough from Reagan Rea flea gan and Hunt wasn't In Interested Ins In in headlines He loved football football foot foot- ball baU but he wanted to play at home A pound second 10 man who could do about everything this West Virginian let wide nation-wide fame roUby roll roU by as he went on scoring three or four our touchdowns in almost evel every game for dear old Marshall This attitude was more Important than all the touchdowns he scored cored which lead the un nation un n Hunt and Snead A few days ago I received a screed from a sport writing friend from West Virginia who knows his stuff You Ton may remember he wrote that Ive I've only slipped lIpped you yon one tip Years Yearl ago I told you yon that we had a hillbilly by the name of Sammy Snead who was on his way up with the greatest swing In golf That was before anyone knew anything about Sammy Snead You Yon printed what I 1 wrote to you Now Im I'm tellIng telling tell tell- ing lug you yon that Jackie Hunt of Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall college Is a better football player than Sammy Snead Is a golfer goUer I know his schedule Isn't what Minnesota or Michigan faces But Dut I know what he can do Id I'd like to see him on equal terms play against Harmon Human or Kimbrough for forI I know he can do more things better better bet bet- ter with a football He can run with either and and both And you cant can't find a better defensive pIa player er Hunt la ii In ie the same spot pot Dutch Clark once held beld A great player they said laid but bat no schedule Dutch Clark CIrk Is still the time all All Ameri Ica I- I ca quarterback ck In your boots book and a almost almost al al- most every other book Hunt Is ts bigger and faster than Dutch Clark and can do everything as well No Vo Fake Ballyhoo This is no fake take ballyhoo for Jackie Hunt whom I have never seen But aut when Doc Spears coach of ot Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth Minnesota and Oregon now at Toledo who has seen een Hunt play two years adds his testimony you have to listen Doc Spears doesn't believe there Is a better around all-around buck bock in Amer Amer- mer ica And nd he has no exceptions One of the greatest is the Doc Spears tribute Hunt went to Marshall college collee knowing It would be almost Impossible Impossible sible for him to make an au AU AU-Amer lea for this one reason the reason the sched ached ule The Important question would be asked asked hunt Hunt may maJ look good against V. V V P 1 I. I and Toledo and Wake Forest but let him try to torUD torun toun run rUD un against PI Big Ten TeD teams What then There Is ts something to this angle But I 1 know several pro coaches who would just as 81 soon have Hunt when he graduates as 81 either Harmon or except Kimbrough except toe for the matter of ot publicity and gate rate receipts receIpt t |