Show goaring scandal S ANOTHER NEW YEAR YEAH slid acinto AS into view the universities of 0 minnesota southern california stanford ohio state and a few others were looking for now new football coaches texas had j just u 3 t completed a n exchange for blair cherry retired savage aluir alumni int pressure the demand for a winning team had caused roost most of this turmoil and about reached just ast grantland rice the point of a scandal it has been generally recognized that football a great game and a magnificent sport in the tha raw had become big business in late years big business has overshadowed the sporting side suppose we take the case of jeff cravath at southern california 1 a well known authority out this way said cravath Is a fine fellow and he a bad boac coach h but southern california has a big sporting program to support football does most of the supporting losing teams at southern california in the last two wo years had fallen off some from other normal years the fact that cravath had won four pacific coast championships was forgotten the problem had now mow become an economic matter southern california being a private institution afford another bad year I 1 mean financially nanci ally so cravath had to go football has reached the point where you must have a winning team or take a financial beating it has been shown that it costs leading colleges from to a year to run a football season A bad year in the field means a bad year or even two at the box office the alumni pressure on football coaches has become scandalous this pressure became to so heavy this last fall that blair cherry of texas wes resler fesler of ohio state and marchle schwartz of stanford all resigned cherry even wait for the end of tho the campaign it so happens apkens that all three of these men are excellent sportsmen and on ahagh a high level as football coaches certainly cherry and fesler had two wo powerful teams rated I 1 2 3 in the national ranking most of the fall fail there was no n demand for their resignations they all decided there must be softer ways way of mak ing a 11 living ving the coaching tangle langle part of the trouble first started when coaches began to jump three or op five year contracts for better offers A coaching contract mean very little but the university siti always got stung when a contract had to be paid up now universities have tried out the system of aligning alg nang coaches to 10 year contracts it remains to be seen liow how this scheme will work out when better offers are made at least the universities wont be forced by any alumni group into picking up six or seven years of a longtime long time imo contract southern california had to pay jeff cravath to cancel the two years remaining on their agreement there are now cl a universities versi ties that should be rated on footballs big time list this number 1 takes in seven or eight big conferences feren cbs ces plus a number of well known institutions that dont be lond longto to any conference notre dame Is on thlu latter list so Is virginia miami vilanova Villa anova nov a santa clara st it marys loyola army and navy now it seems to be a reasonable thing to say that an all of these universities cant have winning teams there must be a defeat against every victory colleges that set up long winning streaks as a rule do so because they have softer schedules or much better material and too often getting this material defio any so called sanity code this always true there are exceptions it may have been rough for them but notre dames bad season and ardys defeat by navy were very healthy for football so were three defeats coaches complain that experts rate their teams far higher than they belong and then start panning them for bad years there is 1 a good deal to be said for this complaint A NOW hew DO derby hops hope A year ago the blossoming bloss oming state of california had a new derby dream his nami was your host a cornet comet streak sprinter who was picked a as the coming derby and triple crown champion your host w was as a fine sprinter now santa anita has another derby berby challenger after going all out for your host the west coast Is s a trifle more subdued about its new entry another colt known as gold capitol |