Show SPORT LIGHT hickman puts fun into the game by GRANTLAND RICE PLANK has only two sides but achere A there are many sides to coaching a football team the sere facts are that it Is probably the most sided of all sports for example you may have noticed how the yalo yale football squad reported for fall practice some soma 75 ot of them were on hand at 0 6 am many were ready and dressed grantland alice by or 5 and they found a smiling fat man waiting ill ills name was herman hickman or rounds of pure ability at all efte turns needed to handle a football squad herman berman la Is a very fine coach ile he Is also a philosopher sometimes known as the smoky mountain diomei ciomei bo be Is also a poet the main point Is that this yalo yale squad in the daybreak grayness knew that win lose or draw it was going to have a lot of fun playing under the mountainous herman which is supposed to coq be th the main idea of football at least that was wa S the original idea since badly distorted and twisted out of shape on too many occasions hickman the best material in the country this season he the best mit material erial in theiry league but they will win a few games here and there always be giving the best they have partly because they have a coach who knows the complicated allaround all around business of coachi coaching hg a football team which includes many more things than sheer expertness in devising plays or teaching fundamentals ment als football has made a forward leap in this direction in late years 9 it has a far greater number who also understand the idea that football should also include some fun meet such coaches c lies as red ulala reda sanders marchy schwartz Schwa riz lefty james wes fesler etc and get the idea but in this respect no one will have anything on herman alerman hackman who also happens tobe one of the hardest losers in the game he expresses the idea in a brief message just received when homer smote scots the rival spine ile he made his bis rival quit or faint he socked them hard by flank an ling line has homer sot ol 01 that I 1 alfr pro footballs setup after a matter of somo some 25 or 30 years pro foo football iball is getting its best chance this season to collect its ts full share of change there was never so much sheer waste in any sport as pro football knew in its wrecking war years but all over now and there seems to be quite enough talent on hand to supply the 13 teams all set to go it would take taka a delphic oracle supercharged super charged to pick the two B from the two circuits abir have been too many shifts bach and anci orth forth too many exchanges too many bolstered teams from last fall among those thosa you can gamble will be up arounds the front are greasy neales eagles and paul browns browns others to be watched include george halas and his chicago bears plus steve owens giants and red Str St aderIA yankees Chi cagos cardinals green bays packers Balti baltimore mores colts and los angeles rams are still doubtful quantities so are de trolas lions but sammy baugh and an improved line still keeps redskins Red skins dangerous always hard to beat this Is sure a season of many sudden upsets and one thing is dead sur eyou are seeing greater creator passing this fall thin than you ever sav before im not going to try to 0 o run up any completed lisi alsi but a season that has baugh luchman Lu climan lujack con erly graham albert tittle tidwell divell Tl and ratter flatter man should ina find the atmosphere packed with footballs headed for extended hands bands and arms I 1 the exhibition attendance was extremely good and when the real shooting gets farther under way it should hold up for a while at least there will be the usual decline or crash for the steady losers you can judge this by the number of patrons the browns athletics reds and a few others have been drawing in baseball closing drop it Is about time that club owners were giving some attention to the terrific attendance flop through september the rapid cit city y of brook lyn tor for example was playing to some 2000 souls only two weeks before the steamy pennant race to the wire attendance figures from 1100 to 1000 1900 were far from uncommon they were often the order of the week this big crash was not due to any runaway races there seems to be two reasons fo for r this big slump ones television the other Is a season that is far too long Bj baseball breaks into th the s sporting p or ing pages in lute late february and is still hanging around until october seven months Is too long to ta keep drama or melodrama sustained you just naturally gt giet g t worn out with seven months of anything |