Show foes again fear fordham pitt piff by GRANTLAND GRANT LAND RICE SOME YEARS ago football had bad three big teams marching under winning banners they were pittsburgh coached by late jock sutherland fordham directed by jimmy crowley and new york university handled by chick meehan they formed a rugged triumvirate directed by three fine coaches willing to play anybody and usually successful then they all decided to give big time alme football A the arctic air 4 they turned their coaches loose to graze in foreign pastures 0 or r to inace up some grantland rice other occupation all ali of the schools went downhill at a dizzy clip now in the case of two of these universities there has been a turn to the past old ghosts are back again pittsburgh grew extremely whary weary of playing a schedule no one could face pitt apparently wanted to break into the big ten at any rate the panther decided 0 be a wolf in panther clothing pittsburgh had a lucky break in being able to get captain tom hamiton from navy tom was both a good coach and a fine athletic director at the academy he was liven given the job of rebuilding pittsburgh with the aid of walter miligan the panther coach r piti began improving last fall fail this season the panther schedule includes william and mary northwestern indiana Min minnesota ohio state pennsylvania and penn state this Is a big time schedule and Ili hamilton milton Is 19 trying to field a big time team good enough to 0 o hold its own starting in pitt will play notre dame daicie for four consecutive years the same change of mind has struck the fordham ram fordham meet all comers east cast andrest and west north and south as fordham and pitt once did years ago pittsburgh was even too hardy tor for notre dame dam who left the panther alone for a while but fordham Is moving out again this season the improved rams meet yale army boston college syracuse georgetown rutgers and NYU X U this Is a good schedule possibly a trifle more than the ram can ban digest a at t this spot in his return to old fashioned years when fordham picked the best la in the country the tribe of murphy many years ago probably tho the greatest of all trainers and coaches combined M bained worked at yale and pennsylvania his time goes back more than 40 years ills his name was mike murphy there Is no one living today whether he be a baleman or a pennsylvania man a football player or a track man who worked under mike murphy who wont tell you that here was the all time tops taps mike was something more than a star trainer and a fine coach he was an inspiration to all who knew him ills grandson dill BIB murphy la in now one of the coming stare stara at dartmouth young dill bill may be one of the best men on tuss rys green squad that wont be so BO green A few days ago I 1 met another mike murphy the son of thorne murphy and grandson of old mike young mike Is biow now in a western prep school but he also will be heard from before too long he Is a good looking well built kid who Is a promising football player and a first rate track man his father played at yale well over 20 years ago his uncle Is george murphy the famous motion picture star young mike quite sure what his destination would be later on but ho he gave me the impression that he ha was looking at yale and dartmouth the chances are hell head for dartmouth as yale getting its share of young star toot ball players the tha way old EU ell once did 4 0 0 ranking ray robinson it has been the general opinion of those who follow the ring game closely that ray robinson has been the worlds best allaround all around fighter for some years certainly since joe louis moved over the hill quite a while back if you start comparing robinson with stanley ketchel you immediately wade into the middle of a verbal typhoon the old ketchel rooters those who saw him tight fight wont tolerate any comparison with anyone ketchel died at the age of 24 just when he was on his way up harry greb was wrecking heavy weights before he hd began to lose his eyesight any middleweight good enough to trim gene tunney and tommy gibbons one after the other had to be good later on tunney got his Fe revenge for oil all of that greb was a great fighter |