Show Movie Depicts Fallacies Of College Football College Gridiron Says Columbia Studios By STANLEY WOODWARD Sports Editor of the New York Herald War Correspondent and Author of It is an accepted fact that no great football team ever was assembled by A successful campaign on the gridiron demands a group of boys who rise above the general standard of the students in savagery and mental if not in brain Plans must be laid three or four years in advance to raise a football team from the ruck to a place among the A large group of athletes must be which involves a scouting plan that is frequently A coaching system must be installed capable of turning the assembled material into a Ways and means must be devised for maintenance of the football players while they are attending A proper schedule must be booked to render the whole thing there should be some liaison between the promoters of the football team and the faculty so that academic casualties may be It is a strange thing that the picture of intercollegiate football has been so poorly drawn in literature and on the stage and Traditionally football has been associated with heroics and there has been practically nothing which has its true character to the American The most accurately drawn story in modern literature was Millard Lampell's which was published in book Now comes a motion picture based on the book which strips all the bathos and malarkey from the great autumnal sport and reveals it as a hard-boiled business involving such things as academic under-cover payments and general Columbia Pictures calls this movie recognizing in the re-titling that the true heroes of the era execute bombing raids and bayonet charges rather than end In producing the Sidney Buchman has exercised an unprecedented restraint in presentation of the subject When Steve Novak the great halfback and principal executor and victim of a collegiate plan of gets his it doesn't happen on the end of a dash for the winning He gets it like most football players do in the rugged exchange of jolts which few spectators ever For Novak the end withdrawal from college and return to the Jersey mill town from which he All is not for he has a new determination to gain education without the and rather expensive dollie wires that she is arriving by This picture will be released at the start of the football season and should be a revealing companion-piece to the big games which will be played all over the in October and It has been seen by numerous athletic players and sports writers in private screenings and no one yet has found thing seriously wrong with it though some of the more sanctified college attaches decry the baldness of its In preparing the a tremendous job of research was The cognoscenti who have seen it I have occasionally been horrified by i its As for the football it is the best ever put on the The blocks and tackles are Buchman has had the good j sense to leave the football se in the hands of Coaches have consulted with and players of high standing have trained as if for a real campaign m order to make the action Novak is an appealing character who never quite shakes off a naive and idealistic attitude toward the He is a good boy who wants to but he The demands of football are too |