Show Texas Missouri Keep By GRANTLAND RICE NEW YORK YORK YORK-III If you want to size up a football team writes take a look at where most of the players come from Theres There's the answer Teams that have many players from out of their own state were benefited by the heaviest recruiting and subsidizing subsidizing subsidizing as a n rule Did you notice that in a recent well- well d selected all South all Southern South South- ern team nine of the eleven m men e n nJ J A I came f. f from rom the 5 north I lu just s t ta made madea a check and found the majority of the Southern stars came from well Grantland Rice Rite above the old Mason and Dixon or Smith and Wesson line Pennsylvania is the main recruiting ground On the other hand he continues Texas teams are aren n 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 Cere Id I'd say Pennsylvania could field a team that would outmatch outmatch out out- match any in the country including including in in- Ohio and Texas But Butone Butone Butone one state cant can't take care of ef fifteen or twenty colleges Or maybe many more If II 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 foot- ball These myriad schools supply Texas Rice Baylor Texas A. A and M M. and one or two I 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 if if not from the United States at least from the Texas cOl could d 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 Up Split-Up May Follow There is a good chance that the end of this football argument may lead to a big split up to split to different rays Nays of running the game Why writes in one dont we have three divisions Professionals Semi-Professionals Semi and Amateurs Each team to play among its own group The trouble is the professional casts would insist In Insist in in- on being labeled amateur The chief trouble will come from athletic scholarships and scholarship ratings A big number of colleges will stand standup up and howl at the idea of or abandoning all aU athletic scholarships scholarships scholarships scholar scholar- ships or forcing football players into courses too tough to be passed For a great many football football foot foot- ball players can only pass simpie simple sim pIe courses This doesn't apply to everyone of course especially especial especial- ly to colleges with much higher standards If the athletic scholarship and scholarship standards can be handled handled handled han han- effectively one wont won't have to bother with spring practice bowls or even A fellow isn't going to a college largely to play 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 ancl collect every time But 1 if there are groups of colleges colleges col col- col leges who want to continue athletic athletic nth ath ath- ath letic scholarships and soft courses they should certainly be allowed to play among themselves No one one- is going to get all colleges to take the same route to follow tollow the same road The point is that these groups should be sharply divided each one carrying a different label each playing in in its own sub division for tor its own set of ratings or cham chain It is Js completely unfair to compare college teams that dont don't have bave athletic scholarships and have high student standards with colleges that do have such scholarships plus moronic student ra ratings tings Another Entry I doubt that anyone In the fight 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 I In those seven years he never broke strict training for as long longas as a split second He handled hf his own program and this also Included in included included in- in mental training working for better concentration He set up program and followed it faithfully Tunny's FYs road work covered an 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 |