Show I Football L Loses Stars to Diamond By GRANTLAND N RICE RICE- I InS AS S A RULE most good baseball players players in college give up football foot- foot football ball baU to hang on with the so-called so national pastime Joe Gordon at Oregon was a star football player one of the best He gave up football for baseball Greasy Neale offered Al AI Dark Darka a big check to play football for his Eagles Dark turned the of of- offer offer fer ter down He took less pay for baseball Theodore Barnard Kluszewski star football player from Indiana one of the games game's best had any number of pro football offers He went with Cincinnati's Reds where he be is doing quite well So did Lloyd Merriman of Stan Stan- Stanford Stanford Stanford ford one of the best on the West Coast C 0 a s t who also quit football f 00 o o t ba ball 11 to play baseball with i P the Reds But I Ih Ir r have h a v e an opposite P. P case This is the story of a great g rea t I looking young pitcher who wh w h o 0 was w a s offered a bonus of I P to play p I a y baseball but who wh o Grantland Rice happened to like I 1 i k e football better He turned down ten fabulous league big-league offers to go to Minnesota and throw passes for the Gophers nil Til tell you about Paul Giel writes a former Minnesota back back- backfield backfield field man Giel is the hero of this romance In my opinion he might be better than Mathew Mathew- Mathewson son Alexander Johnson or Cy Young He lie is the greatest look look- looking looking ing kid pitcher I ever saw He is big strong with fine speed con con- control control control and a fine curve i How good is he Before en en- entering entering entering Minnesota at the age of 19 he pitched six consecutive hit no-hit games at high schools and much tougher spots In these six games he averaged 22 strike strike- strikeouts strikeouts strikeouts' strikeouts outs outs' outsa a game I know of at least ten league big-league scouts who have been on his trail I know of sev sev- several several several eral fabulous offers he has re re- re- re He has everything a great pitcher needs I still feel he might be the greatest of them all But he has one weakness He likes football better than baseball He would rather play football for nothing than base base- baseball baseball baseball ball for a year I mean this As a freshman he threw three touchdown passes against Minnesota's varsity But I still wish he had gone in for base base- ball He De would have bave made all of these other bonus kids look like nothing More About Giel I 1 followed young Giel this fall I ll knew he was with a green rather rathe r ragged outfit Minnesota is now in i n what they call the the rebuilding stage with Bernie Bierman out and Wes Fesler in Yet with this faulty support Giel threw two or three touchdown pass pass- passes pass passes p ss- ss es against Washington a far better II outfit He was the star of the day So he cant can't can t be all dream dream all all fan fan- fantasy tasy George Rogers an old Min Dlin Minnesota star rates Giel the best pitching prospect he ever saw And Rogers has seen his share But that isn't the odd part The odd part is that while most college football players are on college pay pay- payrolls payrolls payrolls rolls where the good baseball players are ducking football jobs this this young sophomore Giel is turn turn- turning turning turning I ing down more money than Curt I Simmons or Wakefield ever got to play football for nothing at all all all- except the fun of it It has been so long since Ive I've seen or heard of an amateur doing something for fun when he could get money for some other game that Paul Giels Giel's case seems out of the ordinary It will be interesting to see what happens to him as a baseball pitch pitch- pitcher er after he finishes his football career Saving Football If football is to be modified and possibly saved from almost com com- complete complete I destruction we believe that Chancellor Harvie Branscomb of i Vanderbilt University has most of the correct answers 1 Reduction of time tune demanded of the college football player specifically specifically specifically cally elimination of spring practice 2 Elimination of bowl games be be- because because because cause they place such extraordinary premiums upon winning 3 Reduction in the number of football scholarships to a point where the athletic budget no longer is a major financial risk 4 Limitation of intercollegiate competition to bona fide college stu stu- students students students dents and planning of physical edu edu- education education education cation courses when offered from the standpoint of the students student's fu fu- future future future ture rather than from the stand stand- standpoint standpoint standpoint point of getting and keeping athletes in school 5 Elimination of unlimited substitutions sub sub- substitutions substitutions that resulted in a boys boy's being trained for one play or one type of play and in specialization 6 G. Elimination of special funds for current athletic support whether contributed by race tracks down down- downtown downtown downtown town quarterback clubs or alumni For example ample e there is no real reason for the terrific cost of foot foot- football football football ball today We know of several well-known well colleges that finished over in the hole last season Others tell us it takes around to run a football program When a college requires double platoons and such and hands out over a hundred scholarships schol the th cost runs high |