Show AND VT CE 4 T THE HE widest gap between college colleg A and pro football U this s fall wi wil involve the financial side The colleges should play to th the largest crowds they have ever ovel known all at tOI toj rz prices and reduced expenses if it even r part of the Sanity Code works out The pros due tc 3 the knockdown and x out drag-out cut your throat competition between the National Na and the All All- Rice Am America e r i c a conference confer ence once can easily easU lead to a financial debacle I dont don't believe more than one possibly possibly pos pos- sibly two of the A. A A. A C. C teams car cat break even At least four or five will take a drubbing that runs from to in losses Cleveland Cleveland Cleve land San Francisco and New might break oven or make a little In the tho National league the losses will be bo nothing like those in some A. A A. A C. C cities titles but due to much heavier roll pay expenses expenses expenses ex ex- there will be few profits The Tho National league grabbed mosi most of the college stars of 1947 1947 Lulack Conerly Connor Layne Evans Gilmer on on and on The A. A A. A C. C passed up the stars al al- al though Chappuis must be rated on one of them The Chicago Rockets caught between between be I tween the Bears and the Cardinals two great teams may take the th heaviest financial socking Possibly a touch The Dodgers opening to when they needed to break even- even badly beaten in their opener opener may ma take the next dipping at o or The National league is luckier in having such teams as the Giants Bears Redskins Eagles Eagles Eagles Ea Ea- Ea- Ea Packers etc established in to cities where they have been planted for years George Marshall of the Redskins Redskin is sold out in advance each season although George and many football writers are not exactly on speaking terms As long as Mr Marshall Marshal doesn't care why should anybody else alse bother He has a monopoly that also wont won't make much mone money in this football war Tim Mara and George Halas Hala have hav had the two richest franchises They should have They built u up pro football They've been on th the job 27 years There is certainly a place for tor two big leagues But in many ways tho the new league was badly arranged and badly directed as Its Ita losses prove What will happen nobody knows But it may not be pleasant reading for any stockholder in either league The College Side On the playing side the pros will wil have a great season But the colleges col leges loges will have an even greater greate playing season plus a far more mor cheerful financial side This should be one of the top years of college football no matter what section you turn to The East faces one of its mos most mosi Interesting campaigns Penn campaigns Penn State Army Pennsylvania Princeton Cc Co Columbia Co- Co lumbia Navy Rutgers Holy Cross Villanova Yale Harvard Dart Darl mouth Boston College on on and on on Here Penn State is the team to beat beal Then move to the Midwest Midwest look at what they have to offer Notre Dame Michigan Purdue Minnesota Minne Minne- sota sola and Northwestern Now to th the Southwest S. S M. M U. U T T. C. C U. U Texas Texa and Rice The South presents sue suet such teams as North Carolina Georgia Georgii Tech Vanderbilt Mississippi State Alabama Georgia I 1 can give you over 50 college college col col- col- col lege squads along a high level level level- who will draw capacity crowds For example Southern California California California Califor Califor- nia may win no title of any sort But it will outdraw any pro team at least two to one on the financial financial financial finan finan- cial side So will Notre Dame Michigan l Ohio State and Cali Cali- fornia Under the tho new Sanity Code thE th colleges wont won't be involved in any an expenses involved in building u Ui their teams This problem will be bi put up to the alumni In the old days some L players would die for dear old oli Rutgers Now some rather wealth wealthy alumnus will go broke to for his team whether it is in tb the Big Nine the thi South the Southwest or t. t the e East Athletes Wont Won't Suffer SuDer But dont don't let anyone tell you that thaI any section has gone shy in taking care of at its athletes Not by y an any university or by any college bu bul bulby buby by certain proud and rather wealth citizens who might be from New York or Chicago or an any other spot The Sanity Code isn't going ti tt work perfectly But it should help At least there might be a reduction from the and paid ti tc certain stars stars stars-In in many cases more mon than the pros get Vi Vh Virginias Virginia's ginia's refusal to adopt thi the N. N C. C A. A A. A Sanity Code has bas some somewhat somewhat somewhat what shaken the apple cart Oni One penalty Is refusal to let the play an N. N C. C A. A A. A team |