Show T eX S Missouri Keep Grinders By B GRANTLAND RICE NEW YORK YORK U If you want to size up a football team writes take a look at where mo most t of the players come from There Theres There's s the answer Teams that have many players from out of their own state state were benefited by the heaviest recruiting and subsidizing subsidizing subsidizing as a rule fr Did you notice that W W t i in a recent well- well F iJ t selected South all team nine of r ern the eleven m men e n nA A n i came fro from m the north I just made madea y a check and found 1 the majority of the Southern stars came from well Grantland Rice above the old Mason and Dixon or Smith and Wesson line Pennsylvania is the main recruiting ground On the other hand he be continues Texas teams are nearly all packed with Texans Missouri has nearly all Missouri boys in her line Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Id I'd say gets the heaviest raiding They travel from 1200 to 1500 miles to grab the best talent Pennsylvania has to of of- fer Id I'd say Pennsylvania could field a team cam that would outmatch outmatch outmatch out out- match any in the country including including including in in- Ohio and Texas But Butone Butone Butone one state cant can't take care of 01 fifteen or twenty colleges Or maybe many more If any heavy cut is made in footballs football's present system the loudest squawk will come from Texas Texas has from to prep schools that go in seriously for foot toot ball baU These myriad schools supply Texas Rice Baylor Texas A. A and M. M and one or two others The Texas athletic scholarship scholarship scholarship scholar scholar- ship list is also heavy and if it there is any big reduction here Texas may secede again again it if not from the I United States at least from the Texas could lure in Arkansas and Oklahoma and have all the fun and action wanted Football in Texas is a civil war and the teams really go all out The high schools in Texas battle it to the hilt from September to Decem Decem- ber I dont don't know whether Texas has the phony courses for football players that so many other colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges have or not I doubt it since most of the complaints that have come this way haven't blown in from Texas Split Up May Follow There is a good chance that the end of ot this football argument may Y lead to a big s split plit split up split up up-to up to different ways Nays of running the game Why writes in one dont we h have lve three divisions Professionals Profession lIs Semi-Professionals Semi and Amateurs Each team to play among its own group The trouble is the professional casts would insist in insist insist in- in on being labeled amateur The chief trouble will come from athletic scholarships and scholarship ratings A big big- number of colleges will stand standup up and howl at the idea of abandoning all athletic scholarships scholarships scholarships scholar- scholar ships or forcing football players into courses too tough to o b be be- passed For a great many football football football foot foot- ball players can only pass simpie simple simple sim sim- pie courses This doesn't apply to everyone of course especially especial especial- ly Iy to colleges with much higher standards If the athletic scholarship and scholarship standards can be handled handled hani han han- i dIed effectively one wont won't have to bother with spring practice bowls bowl or even A fellow isn't going to a college college- largely to pl play lY football and then pay his own way and take up a tough student course You can bet beta a carload of bullion on that and collect every time But if there are groups of 01 colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges who want to continue athletic athletic athletic ath ath- ath- ath letic scholarships and soft courses they should certainly be allowed to play among themselves No one on onis is going to get all colleges to take take- the same route to follow the same same- road The point is that tha t these groups group should be sharply divided ea each one carrying a different label each playing in its own sub division for its own set of ratings or cham cham- It is completely unfair to compare college teams that dont don't have athletic scholarships and have high student standards standard with colleges that do have such scholarships plus moronic student ratings Another Entry I doubt that anyone In the fight tight game was as well conditioned as one James Joseph Tunney or knew more about conditioning Tunney spent just seven years in getting ready for his first Dempsey test In those seven years he never never- broke strict training for as long longas as a split second He handled his own program and this also included in included included in- in mental training working for for- better concentration He set up I ti program and followed it faithfully Tunny's road work covered an SD enormous span of ground Even playing golf gol he would hit a drive toss his club to the caddie and then start running and punching |