| Show speaking of sports pro grimster Grid ster backs college rule changes by ROBERT W WHETHER HETHER or not college football could be made a better basi basically cally sounder game through revolutionary rule changes is a question upon which coaches and fans alike disagree many coaches and it must be admitted bitted that most of them are of professional fess ess ional clubs would like to have institutional teams adopt regulations b governing over ning the play tor for pay boys most college mentors are content with the existing setup set up of course many of them have their own ax to grind they would like to see a few minor changes but on the whole are satisfied with things as a they are heading the former group is george P marshall outspoken owner of the washington redskins Red skins who has called upon the college rule makers to save their game from going in the way of the dodo bird by a adopting dop ting pro rules an outstanding advocate of rules as they are is amos alonzo stagg the he no I 1 grand old man of american football who entered his fiftieth year of coaching this season stagg is rounding out his career in the comparative obscurity of a small campus at the college of the pacific at stockton calif it is marshalls marchalls Mar claim that colleges are charging fancy prices but they are not giving the public the kind of a show it deserves his interest in furthering the cause of college foot A AMOS ALONZO STAGG ball is by no means academic he wants various school teams to play good football and for a reason it is his view that mediocre football kills oft off the interest of would be customers in other words if john Q phan pays for a seat at a college game and then sees an inferior brand of football he loses interest in the game whether it be pro or si mon pure ulterior motives I 1 marshall charges that a great many college football rules were placed on the books tor for selfish reasons coaches who wanted to capitalize on their own strength or their opponents weaknesses inaugurated a new rule he charged specifically that goal posts were moved back of the goal post lines not to protect the players but to handicap the foes of rule committee coaches whose squads were scheduled to meet clubs with better kickers ile he named too the college ban against throwing a forward pass unless the passer is at least five yards behind the line of scrimmage that rule he declared was put in through the pressure of coaches who knew their own passers were outclassed on the other hand stagg feels that the rules of the college game are settled to their permanent form there will be no further rapid and radical changes during his 50 years as a coach he has watched the game develop from the kicking to the carrying to the razzle bazzle dazzle game he remembers the 15 man team he remembers when the playing field was first called a gridiron he was on the yale team when slugging was abolished stagg coached through the period when indoor football was popular veteran observer stagg has been a member of the football rules committee since 1904 a life member since 1933 he has b been een an integral part of the games development ile he speaks with authority when he says the game is now as well arranged as possible both from the spectators and players standpoints why he thinks no revolutionary changes will be made A review of his past 49 seasons convince convinces s stagg that there is still a good chance that one or two more major systems may be developed and that there is plenty of room fo for development of new individual plays because of this stagg knows that rule alterations may be necessary both sides sound logical the more so because the advocates of rule changes have for the large larg e part a selfish interest T they hey look upon colleges as farms for the professional fess ional gridiron and therefore are anxious to have the collegians molded to their style as soon as possible sports shorts JOHNNY JOHNNY MIZE was the second w first baseman to lead the national league in batting in a decade bill terry did it in 1930 and 31 lefty grove keeps the final baill ball thrown in each of his winning games his major league collection is up to ty cobb according to connie mack was the only man who ever played baseball who could teach another man to hit okla h 0 ni a entire 1916 team was in military service during the world war A and r returned intact in 1919 to win eight games and tie one in t a nine game sched ty cobb ule biff jones Ne braskas football mentor has an all time record of as a coach the average weight of north h westerns sterns we football squad is pounds the average height 5 feet 11 inches and the average age is 20 years the haskell indians who used to play one of the heaviest college football schedules in the nation now meet prep school opponents columbia the worlds largest university has one of the smallest football squads in the east heap big chief A ARTURO GODOY of chile a rough rugged mountain ind indian tall will face heavyweight champion joe louis february 9 in that dusky gent lemans ninth title defense it would be an exaggeration to say that more than 5 per cent of the nations citizens have ever heard of senor godoy however promoter mike jacobs emphasizes that the chilean twice beat tony roll out the barrel galento during the indians U S campaign in 1937 godoy whom recognize as being timid and reticent shyly remarked ill knock him out he cant take it but I 1 can ill prove to the world that louis is not the invincible man everybody tries to make him out thou though 6 h he understate his ability to absorb punishment godoy is really one of the toughest fighters of modern times ranking along with tommy farr of wales lie he has never been knocked out or floored though he was stopped once because of cuts in a novice fight thirty years old godoy punched his way into the limelight in 1936 by knocking out ancient decrepit angel firpo in the tenth round firpo if you remember was the brawler r who knocked knocked jack dempsey out of the ring in 23 jacobs forgot to mention that the contender was out pointed here by roscoe toles and nathan mann uncle mike picked godoy as the heavyweight challenger 1 after failing to come to terms with young lou nova of los angeles after taking a bloody beating from galento the californian Califor iuan wanted too much money to take another from louis which shows that nova still is in possession of his mental faculties |
