Show THE OLGH 1 Copyright 1927 1337 New York Tribune Inc Trademark Registered Rt U O 8 B. f Patent tent Office L fu Grantland Rice 2 J THE SECOND SECO GUESSERS I like to sit high in the big stands And watch the play go through And then I can tell the quarterback Just what hat he ought to do He calls on a a. smash through tackle And hardly gathers a yard Why hy didn't the blinking bunking blighter Try Tryout out his smash through guard Whenever they rush the oval Ten yards ards from the goal or lev I watt walt till the thc play Is over o Before I enter my guess If he kicks why kicks why didn't he pass pau it If he bucks why bucks why hy didn't he run I can tell him just what he should have used u used used- ed- ed But not till the play is done FOOTBALL FOOT ALI FIGURING G Football In many ways is the moat unfair of or all the competitions In the first place certain universities universities attics have ha far higher entrance quail quaIl- qualifications and much higher class class- classroom classroom classroom room standards than others have They lose Jose many stars who cant can't meet and hold the scholastic grade In the second place accidents and injuries put a a. big premium on luck Certain teams at certain times are arc 40 per cent below their normal Donnat power because two ho or three of the best men are arc out These are things that never figure in boat races nce track meets golf or tennis matches and rarely in baseball In the third place schedules are arc entirely different and those working on such schedules schedule as Yale Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Chicago Notre Noire Dame and a afew afew few tew others tackle have ha a harder time pulling safely through These arc are only a few tew of the reasons why entirely too often orten too much credit is splashed on the winners and too much discredit heaped on the losers Few teams start from the same scratch mark and therefore few face facet the t e same problems TilE THE SURVIVOR SUR So far tar nothing has happened In recent months to show why any of the theother theother theother other entries should Jack Sharkey In Tex RIckard's winter Inter eliminations Few believe that the survivor will willet get et another shot at Tunney before re Dempsey docs does but the survivor will willet get et his chance later on Sharkey was no dashing smart mart bold and alert hero against Dempsey But he Is a hard man to take He is young oung fast tast strong a good boxer and anda a fair puncher Ask Dempsey D about that first round It all depends upon how much he has learned in irs the last year ear and how Isow hard he is willing to work For he still needs a long steady siege of hard work before he can slip sUp into any championship toga VALUE LUI OK or TilE THE PIVOT PI Tommy Armour U. U S. S open golf champion was undoubtedly right when he figured that correct pivoting was one of the main principles of good golf olf He was also right when he stated that few tew golfers facing a critical shot ever eyer pivot correctly This applies to star as well as dub In any critical situation the first inclination is to tighten up and to swing the club as much as u possible I with the hands han and arms Bobby Jones Jone says Armour Is the only star st r I golfer I know who still sull pivots pivot freely and normally under all conditions even e with a II championship hanging on the stroke s I This applies I to duffer as well ell as u to star The duffer rarely lets himself pivot in the right way because he la Is I nearly always tightened up or over- over overt tense t nse But in facing an emergency I he lie Is more taut than ever Cr with no nomore nomore I more elasticity left lert In his system than thana a hickory plank might carry Any golfer who learns how to let lethis lethis I his left lert side Ide turn in the right way y yand and finds his balance at the top of the swing is a long way on oct the open road to good scoring But he must also allo develop enough relaxation to let Itt I this pivoting continue in times of o storm and stress face fac to face with the I critical strokes of or the match TilE THE LEADING G CROWD CATCHER i There may be some uncertainty as asto asto asto to which football team will finish with Ith I the best record There is no uncertainty uncertainty as to which team tram will play be before I be-I be- be before fore lore the biggest crowd of the year Pennsylvania wins in a canter Penn in its first five games has already I played to spectators spectators' The Red Rod and Blue will play to or 60 in the Navy game and to in the Harvard game And Penn will play to or capacity against Cornell Her total crowd figures for the year will wm run to something like and no one is going to out- out check this combined mass Before handing the fragrance of the wild raspberry to any football referee or umpire you ou might first try to work in a modern game where there are enough complications to I drive Euclid and Archimedes back to the grammar school Few officials can check off of properly everything that takes place for lor the simple reason that no human yet has been ben born bom with withas as many feet as lIS a a. centipede or as many eyes as an Argus In reply to So and as to why we haven't spoken well of o So and from such such and such a college one might be that there are arc now a thousand So and from five hun hun- hundred hundred dred died Such-and Such Such colleges and to include them all would use up the better part of ot two years cars every foot foot- football football ball b l season which lasts about two months |