Show lL s s Sc C 1 Now ow York Tork Post W VU Service Coaches Realizing Grid Fundamentals Will Pay Dividends RECENTLY It was noted here that the professors of football were becoming more and more in in- inclined inclined inclined to devote themselves to en en- enlightened enlightened lightened expositions of the games game's fundamental practices Instead of advising that the air be filled with forward passes they were making moderate and effective use of this weapon In place of the lateral fripperies fripperies fripperies and the more gaudy shifts they hey were advising some intelligent application of the punt and field goal Such evidence of progress after an overlong period of blatant con- con confusion confusion fusion has led to some examination of the causes immediately ly preceding preceding ing ng the return to sanity I believe I now have the reasons for the trend rend They The arc are 1 The increasing total total of last period triumphs during the past ast five years ears 2 The innumerable touchdowns ms scored standing up Let Letus Letus Letus us consider them in the order in which they are set down doom here Formerly the less pretentious col- col colleges colleges leges were so venal that they fairly gibbered in their eagerness to be sacrificed behind the Yale Bowl turnstiles at some early season date late Top-heavy Top scores then th n were almost as frequent as torn muscles So the period scores were com- com comparatively comparatively uniform Having torn their heir tank town adversaries to pieces during the first half flush of zeal eal the major leaguers ambled across the dazed and wounded with far ar less zest but just as pretty I touchdown results during the final moments Now v though the great universities ties ies have deprived the little fellows of most of their crumbs Columbia i moved into Yankee stadium almost be be- before before z fore the last World series customer had hadd departed d e par t e d Jim Crowleys Crowley's Fordham boys have been playing to big crowds in the Polo grounds Other high class exponents of the higher learning jim Crowley gloat a full month earlier than usual about how the ex ex- exploitation exploitation ex- ex exploitation of a few dozen young men can provide even tidier profits Obviously this matching of big time teams and of the big time I bank rolls with which the teams I are obtained should produce better football I think it does I also think that there is some in inthe inthe inthe the fact that thirty four of ninety- ninety two important games have been won I or tied in the final fifteen minutes of play this season I Depend on Strong Line to Apply Pressure to Foes roes Dr Marvin Stevens one of the better thinkers and more fearless talkers among the football notables I touched upon the th subject a day d y or two ago While dilating upon the I virtues of his l s N. N Y U. U U line he point point- pointed ed out that it is the steady pounding pound pound- pounding ing which really reveals the excel excel- excellence I lence of a team so well equipped d up front In other words if pressure is I relentlessly applied during the first two periods something almost in in- inevitably inevitably inevitably must crack before the fin fin- ish Reduced still further this becomes the ABC A II B C of football viz football viz the proper application of brawn will win games I When men mon are well matched in weight speed intuition and experience experience experience ence and arid are equally well coached coached- as is the case among most of of today's pennant contenders- contenders two factors sway the results of their I contests The more glibly reported I of them th m is luck The more important I tant is physical condition A tired boy relaxes for a moment in in the line He lIe has practiced hard all week trying tr in to keep eel up with complicated plays He De has been pounded all afternoon lie He still I wants to win but the brain is almost as tired as the body on which it must depend He lIe relaxes The steady pressure is applied once I more snore There is the break through and a game that might mi ht have been won is lost The Tho touchdowns that come stand stand- standing ing up are similar Perhaps a fresh back is in the game Perhaps a jad jad- jaded jaded jaded ed boy shakes loose by some chance and is spurred by the victory urge Tired brains functioning in tired bodies note him but it is a fraction of a second too late Leaden aden legs fol fol- follow fol- fol follow low but the pursuit is useless HEARD IN THE HUDDLE Coach Jock Sutherland played in to only one losing game during his four years of varsity football at Pitt Buzz Puzz Buivid the son of ofa ofa ofa a Lithuanian tavern keeper who w h o grew up to become Marquette's All- All America halfback candidate has a better than titan passing average He De has thrown twenty three touch touch- touchdown touchdown touchdown down passes in the past two years St St. Marys Mary's Is angling with Holy HolyCross HolyCross Cross for a game to replace the Fordham contest now that the Polo grounds packing rivals arc are more sore than a bit steamed up at one an an- another another another other Jack landers Manders veteran Chicago Bear ace has converted out of tries for points after touchdowns during the past three seasons South Benders are wailing w ail a i l i n g about how Notre Dames Dame's scholastic requirements have been tightened since the days of Rockne They Th y claim this has been the real reason for the th slump in Irish football and that several leading teams right now are made up largely of boys who were scared away from Notre Dame Incidentally during Rocks Rock's thirteen years the Irish lost only twelve games During the th six seasons since then they have dropped fourteen Bill Moss Tulane tackle and Gaynell Tinsley L. L S. S U. U end rank high among Dixie's candidates for star all-star hon hon- honors honors honors ors Bill Borries Dorries brother of the Navys Navy's former Buzz gets gels plenty of applause with a rather weak W. W and andL L. L L cast Lynn Waldorf aldorf VI Called Pappy in ill Chicago They call Lynn Waldorf Pappy out in Chicago where his North North- Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern western team i is s adding to his reputation J tation of having won Gl GJ games lost 21 and tied eleven cleven dur dur- during during x ing 10 O years of o 0 f li Tom Tom T coaching o m y cley II Harvard rd frosh captain is one f. f of the few gleams 1 I in Coach Harlow's Harlows ot I eye e e The Tile son of a Worcester police captain is a Lynn Waldorf pound IDO-pound tackle and amI practically the only standout among a weak group of Cubs He lie also has several time big-time baseball I clubs interested in his pitching and passed his entrance exams with a better than 90 average If Eddie Stanley one of New Eng Eng- England's England's England's lands land's better backs had not been hurt in iu the Princeton game Wil Wil- Williams Williams' Williams Williams' liams' liams record might be far more impressive now Watch Frank Hartline who trans trans- transferred transferred transferred to West Point from Columbia two seasons ago Right now hes he's supposed to be merely a second- second stringer but there are those who whisper he is due to become one of Army's greatest centers Rocco Dattola pound Green Green- Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich Conn boy who plays a swell quarterback ck for Springfield College I is one of New England's best half- half milers Browns Brown's supporters are getting some cheer out of Vic Bernstein soph back Although he probably weighs w 10 pounds less than his program weight of he ran back a Penn kickoff 83 yards for forthe forthe forthe the Bruins' Bruins third touchdown in two years against a major opponent They still are trying to figure out what to do with a bale of cotton and a steer that are on hand at Texas Christian university T. T T C. C U. U students bet the longhorn against Mississippi States State's bale and when I Ithe the game ended in a tic tie each side refused to pick up u its ante So ever since the tile stakeholder has been fit to be tied tied A. A Gordon Murray Princeton 91 whose son Arch does such clever pieces for the papers has witnessed seven forty-seven of the last two fifty-two Tiger-Eli Tiger gridiron contests I Add powerful smaller college I teams teams teams-St. St St. Anselm's of Manchester N. N II II which has permitted one i safety while beating such elevens j jas as Springfield Providenc and New Hampshire Johnny Perko Duquesne right guard is a budding Morly Morty Moss Ed Ed- Eddie Eddie Eddie die Guest Lord Byron or whatever I poet you prefer He has a poem I called Reality in the present is issue is- is issue issue sue of the Student Literary monthly and the profs rate it tops The gossipers still insist that Ernie Nev- Nev Nevers Nevers ers will be paid the year two-year bal bal- balance balance balance ance of his coaching contract at the end of the current Lafayette season There also is more than a rumor that Harvard Hanard can have back Eskie Clark who ho came from Cambridge last winter to handle Leopard ath ath- athletic athletic athletic letic affairs Lefty Gomez gives credit t to o Trainer Johnny Williams of N. N N Y U. U U for curing his sore arm Bookmakers chop his prices to smithereens and yet W. W T. T Fatty Fatt Anderson the much feared plunger saddled only one winner winne- on the I metropolitan wheel this season The I horse was which won at the Belmont fall session Long before he lie achieved eminence 1 as assisting manager of the New NewYork NewYork York Shamrocks rooters used to cheer John for his soc soc- soccer soccer soccer feats with the old Preston North Ends Opponents claim that one very good reason why Brown Crown has fared so poorly in football this year car caris is that the Bruins hate to hit the dirt that most of the he regulars shy at hard tackles les and a 1 1 that one veteran ball carrier always slows up just as ashe ashe ashe he is about to be hit Andrew Tehel now one of the nations nation's most celebrated soccer referees first achieved fame as goalie for the White nose Ilose F. F C. C |