Show SPORT LIGHT hickman puts fun into info the game GRANTLAND GRANT LAND RICE I 1 air PLANK has only two sides but A there are many sides to coach ing ing a football team the sere facts tie that it is probably the most sided of all sports F for 0 r example you may have no tic alced L d how the yale football s squad q U a d reported for fall ia practice some 75 of f them the m were a on n h hand nd at 6 a am m many were ready and dressed grantland Gran dand itice by 4 30 or 5 and they hey found a smiling fat man wait ang ng ills name was herman tier an SOO or rounds of pure ability at all the turns needed to handle a football squad herman Is a very ery fine coach lie Is also a philosopher sometimes known as the smoky mo mountain buntain he be Is also a poet the maint main point is tint that this yale squad quad in the daybreak grayness knew that win lose or draw it was going to have a lot of tun fun playing under the mountainous herman berman which is supposed to be the main idea of football at least that was the original idea since badly dis ported and twisted out of shape on too t 0 many m occasions oc c anions hickman h the best material in the country this season lie he the best material in the ivy league but they will win a few games i here and there they 11 always be i giving the best they have partly because they have a coach who knows the complicated all around business of coaching a football team which includes many more things than sheer expertness in tic de plays or teaching funda dentals football 11 has h as made a forward foard leap le all in I 1 n this th as direction d in lite late years car s it h has 6 s a far ar greater number who 1110 also iso understand the id idea ea that foo football tb all should also include incle some am fun bicet such coaches as red ked bialk lied sanders marchy schwartz lefty james J ames wes es fesler etc and you 11 get the idea but in this respect no one will have anything on herman hickman who also happens to be one of the hardest losers in the game lie he ex presses the idea in a brief mess message ge just received when homer smote the rival spine lie made his rival mat quit or faint Us socked them hard bard by flunk flank and line anil and what ahat has hornet homer sol got that I 1 I 1 aint am pro footballs setup after ter a matter of some 25 or 30 years pro football toot bal is getting its best chance this season to collect its full share of change there was never so much shoe sheer r waste in any sport as pro foot football bal knew in its wrecking war years but all over now and there seems to be quite enough talent on hand to supply the 13 teams au all set to go it would take a delphic oracle supercharged super charged to pick the two s livors from the two circuits tbt tb t have been too many shifts baci anc forth too many exchanges tor toe many bolstered teams from last fall among those you can gamble will be up around the front are greasy neales eagles and paul browns browns other to be watched include george halas and his chicago bears plus steve owens giants and red St yankees Chi cagos cardinals green bays packers baltimore Balti mores s colts and los angeles rams are still doubtful quantities so are de trolas lions but sammy baugh and an improved line still keeps redskins Red skins dangerous always hard to beat this Is sure a season of many sudden upsets and one thing thine I 1 Is dead sure you are arc seeing greater passing this fall all than you ever saw before im n not at going to try to run up any completed list but a season that has baugh luckman I 1 lujack kujach con erly graham albert tittle tidwell and should find the atmosphere packed with footballs headed beaded for extended hands and arms the exhibition attendance was extremely good and when the real shooting gets farther under way it should hold up tor for a while at least there will be the usual decline or crash for the steady losers Y you ou can judge this by the number of patrons the browns athletics reds and a few others have been drawing in baseball closing allen da acee drop it is about time that club owners were giving some attention to the terrific attendance flop september the rapid city of brooklyn for example was playing to some 2000 souls only iwo weeks before the steamy pennant race to the wire attendance figures from 1100 to 1900 were far from uncommon they were often the order of the week this big crash was not due to any runaway rices there seems seem to be two reasons for this big slump one is television the other is a season that is tar far too long baseball breaks into the spora pora por A pages in late 1 he february feor uary y and is still hanging around until october seven mon months is too long ti keep drama or melodrama sus lamed bained you just naturally g it gt i t worn out nut wit sevin seven months of in an thing villing |