| Show college Col leole football full of variety y by GRANTLAND RICIE RICE I 1 OLLEGE football in the badly C COLLEGE mixed up USA will be one of 0 the most scrambled sports on any map for 1952 it was known in advance that the ivy league had no connection whatsoever with the southeastern and southwestern conferences the wide split concerned athletic scholarships student work bowl games and almost everything else now it seems that the southern conference the big seven the big ten the missouri valley and the pacific coast conference a are re heading beading tor for ivy league standards at least a good part ot of the wa way each ach conference Is entitled to make its 0 wn own choice it is apparently app ardently the choice of the southeastern grantland rice a and n d the southwestern conferences to go out for even bigger and better football athletic scholarships plus bowl games freshmen playing and what else do you nu want there are certain to be wide sweeping changes over most of the football map but there will still be football every bit as interesting in n other sections as the southeastern Southeast erns I 1 s and Southwester Southwest erns Ws untrammeled conferences can put on the main point is that the southeastern and southwestern leagues can supply enough teams for most of the bowls since the big ten and west coast take care of the rose bowls destiny for how bow long no one can say certainly the two conferences from georgia through texas can see that the sugar cotton orange and gator bowls are all supplied with bowl teams they may need some help however from stra stray y wanderers such as holy cross fordham For dhain miami virginia and one or two others who are not in a conference the various college presidents have gone farther in the main than anyone suspected they would this mean the southeast or the southwest where coaches and athletic directors still have control which is the way those two sections want it different Foot football baliJ 0 teams that play with almost unlimited athletic scholarships attached have terrific advantages over those with limited or with no scholarships at all to dole out the wonder of 1950 and 1951 was that princeton with no athletic scholarships had t teams e a m s that matched tennessee maryland and Mich michigan iian state I 1 the southeastern wing and the southwestern delegation can get along minus any outside schedule help they have enough old time rivals at home to fill any schedule but the southern going in tor for any scholarship reforms will have to duck such old rivals as tennessee georgia georgia tech tulane and such or be outclassed if this split develops there will be time enough to see which plan Is the sounder only the educational side certainly wont be helped where football Is given too big a play too much football and a sound education dont walk the same road which is something everyone knows it will take some time to digest all the many moves that have been planned but as things look today there w will 11 be a wide gap in some of 0 our major conferences where teams will have to be ranked in different groups the athletic scholarship and bowl set against the rest of the field this will give everybody more confusion than the average fan can handle but the way it will have to be if any fair ranking is expected the big show these are big days around the pleasant village of arcadia cal the famous santa anita track Is open for its season as dr charles strub starts his year as one of sports fabulous promoters it was the san frncisco francisco doctor who sold dimaggio DiMagg lo to the yankees and gave racing santa anita this will be santa anitas biggest year the total stakes run into more cash than we can add up on a busy day and was enough to lure out owners with big stables who have a chance to win it you walk around the stables run across such big name horses as counterpoint 1951 champion hill prince count turf derby winner windy city english and irish champion two year old ded bed broses oR oses palestinian Mo onrush wistful special touch rough re n tumble bryan G guillotine gold capitol hill gail A gleam cousin horses from the stables of C V whitney W b i t n e y greentree vanderbilt calumet C T chenery an almost never ending list this shot at big cash has also lured out the top jockeys arcaro shoemaker atkinson many of the tracks biggest names who can scent the odor of newtown money among the features are the maturity with counterpoint featured the derby on february 23 and the handicap |
