Show WIZ old game and the new tand T HE football that used to be A and the football that Is today are two entirely different games it if you dont mind well take you back a bit just a few years I 1 spent roost most of one recent weekend week end with my old friend pudge heffel finger who Is still mr football pudge was a mighty football player at yale from 1889 to 1891 he was just as good aroun 1915 when he was in his he played for 54 minutes against a crack pro team when he was 53 he t was still playing at 1 65 against another leading pro team in minneapolis 4 grantland nice pudge se suffered a bad knee at 65 and understand it cant understand why a football player cant go 60 minutes at least twice a week what are these young fellows made of today asks pudge e Is now flow 81 years old ne lie only weighs pounds and he still moves around like a lightweight lie ile has hands like two sets of hams barns bud holland helland says pudge Is a throwback ta q the lie dinosaurs now ill take you to another case to io another friend of mine his name is shep romans homans of englewood N J shep homans was wa ames substitute at prince ami around 1889 1 1 I never got in a jame game that year shep tells me homans was Prince tons full back in 1890 and 1891 homans homana weighed pounds ile he played 70 minutes in 22 consecutive games game his substitute never got to play sure I 1 was hurt shep told me long afterwards but you dont quit a game because y you ou happen to get hurt if you dont mind you might also mention that snake ames was a greater allaround all around athlete than glen davis or any other college athlete snake was the greatest college player I 1 ever saw he was also the greatest college baseball player I 1 ever saw he held three big league teams to less than five hits and beat bent them all he was also a great golfer ive paid to find that cut either the football players of 40 and SO 50 years ago were much tougher and rougher and had more fiber than the present bunch or the game today Is far rougher than it used to be walter falter eckersall was a good friend of mine mind weighing ing pounds eckle eckie could travel 60 minutes ini without taking an extra breath he carried the ball chedid he did all the kicking lie he blocked and tackled and passe passed dand and he finished fresh maybe the game today Is too rough either the football foot bal players are much too soft or the game is much too rough at the finish of this season man of the best backs in the country including doak walker of stuart and stephenson Step benson of army and many others were too badly hurt to tobe abe of any use sitka and brennan of notre samp were both out of action so adi was charley justice with a bad shoulder according to carl snavely in the Willi amand and mary game most of the good backs were hurt and out of action or useless entac tn faction a good martof part of the thi year the game today is far rougher than it used to be the old game was mass pushing and shoving the modern game Is a matter of collision at top speed the equipment Is atrocious something the coaches should have corrected years ago they admit their fault now a little late st stamina amina and speed when you measure the old against the new yo you u run into deep trouble in the matter of timing and inches in the way of measurements the years prove that the modern stars outclass most of those who belong to the past they r run u n faster ast eror or at feast least just as fast they jump hig higher heror or further they keep breaking records wherever you yoa can use the lie stop watch or the measuring tape haiie the he new years bring you new champions but you cant measure baseball and football you cant measure the days when walsh and johnson john son and 11 a t h e w s 0 n and alexander pitched over innings a sea esex son sonae against abst the stars of today who pitch from to io innings As we che check k back we find the old timers lead C ad in stamina and fortitude the new stars lead in speed and quick records it may be that since the invention of the automobile no one ever walks anymore and leg power is a missing factor something has happened to io stamina we wa have pretty fair runners from to the meters not much after that |