Show SPORT LIGHT football Is hard to officiate by GRANTLAND RICE lefty james the very able coach at cornell let out a lusty squawk about football officials and and the the penalties imposed against his cornell team in X the tha harvard harvar game lefty james Is a first class coach and a first class sportsman he was merely giving pub I 1 11 I 1 0 utterance to what so ninny many other coaches sold said before in private grantland Orant land itice conversation what they all overlook anthis in this football Is not a game ganie that le lend da itself botho to the operation of officials you have 22 men on the field widely scattered scatter edi all over the lot any oneff one of them quite willing to fage face the chance of any penalty that might help win the game As iturry up yost once said to bethere me there are at least one ortho or two penalties incurred on every play in football there are off sides there I 1 la a hol holding dini secret or otherwise there thera Is always some form of rule breaking all ali the officials cando can do la Is watch tor for penalties that affect the play directly in the course of one season after an another other I 1 have seen penalties that changed the course of four or live five games a year ti 11 have seen many penalties that were here not called but that directly affected the turn t urn of the he game these were shown sh own in 1 motion pictures later some of them the in were glaring infractions but unseen by the offic officials lils I 1 it t so happened that I 1 worked as an official in the southfork south for many years as referee umpire and field judge it was then I 1 made mada up my mind that football was amota not a game same that could be handled efficiently on the field I 1 have changed my mind since no pair of eyes doubled double dand and redoubled can follow all that takes place pass interference alone could drive any set ot of officials tark stark raving mad 1 I 1 have shown slow low motion pictures of such plays to nany many officials whose rulings in the game were at variance with the camera portrayal they were of bourse course guessing dickfield Pick backfield field in moti motion oil Is another problem that keeps coaches and officials ina in a frantic slate of mind it isa Is a split second decision and aad the human eye equipped tor for split sec seconds ands the hand and the foot 1 are both quicker than the human eye which to is never too fast otherwise magicians would starve st to death yet the official cial must m sj work with his eyes which are not capable of I 1 handling the job football the toughest football Is by all odds the ahe toughest of all games for or any set of officials t to handle baseball Is a holiday in co compall son the umpire today toda or fouron four 0 them knows whereto where to be a and nd there can Ca only bo bolted two men min involved right under his nose the runner and the fielder but with 22 men scattered e red all over the field from 60 50 to yards apart anait all with a little honest larceny th in their heart sno set of officials could cover this ground out tile lie main fault la Is with tho the structure of football itself not with wi the officials no letof set of officials in any game works harder trains fi harder arder or tries harder to le handleman handle hand lean an impossible job it la Is an impossible job on many occasions where the human eyeballs eye falls down completely in sitting up in a press box above the field you frequently see plays clearly that officials on the field must miss with their visions shut off all by intervening ter players the worst place to see a football game la Is from the bench the th level blew vew is impossible lm that is why scouts helping to direct the ploy play move move to some elevated spot and use theli their phones from above the field football officials however work on this level range one official dwor working king above the field could se see twice as much on many occasions as those working on the ground naches coaches should understand the fault with the officials it is wi with the game itself and the coaches coach es could do a 4 better job in training their men to play th tho 6 game by the rules which so few coaches do oft off side holding starting too quickly in the backfield aro are rule infractions that right coaching could reduce 0 4 w 4 t jinx in sports I 1 stan sian ausla 1 recently voted the second most anost valuable able player baye r in the Wat national ional league for 1050 1930 can hit between and 4 01 in any ny park in the majors axce except pt ro forbes rb es field which is next door to his horn home town ot of denora pa most years the finest batsman in the na lional leaguers Lea League guels Is happy if he can top at pittsburgh his absolute three ring gold plated jinx the tol fol lowing afternoon at ebbets field mug fal may bo be on base every time harry Dree breechen chen his has won tm thirty times in his orty forty games with the chicago cubs cuba all he has to do is throw his glove on the field and the cubs cuba are down same was true of art nehf the left hander who could always beat tho the pirates through tow four seasons nehf de feared pittsburgh thirteen times lin a row rolar before they broke the factor p peli el 1 in 1922 nehl nehf was the main factor 1 in depriving the pirates of the pennant in 1821 1921 they had a lead of seven and ahall a half games going into new york in mid august but thee the giants took then them five straight |