| Show sneah speaking ing of sports coaches attest unpopularity 01 of J grid slaughters b by ROBERT mcshane WHEN 7 HEN gridiron war giors raced over through and around the university of Chi cagos maroons marcons for an 85 to 0 victory on stagg field this the one sided score brought very little joy to the victor and none to the vanquished qui shed it a glorious defeat for the maroons marcons it was a rout it a great victory for the wol merines verines merines verines it was a stampede few are the football coaches who want to 0 o see their rivals team humiliated milia ted A sense of decency and sportsmanship forbids that and it if that enough coaches realize that football is an uncertain profession that some time in the future he r ight be on the losing end of one of those lopsided lop sided scores fritz crisler michigan coach reversed the usual gridiron order in the chicago game ile he ordered his t team earn NOT to score touchdowns the score was 54 to 0 at the half and crisler wanted it to stay at i that point he conferred d with dark clark during the first half and the two coaches a agreed reed upon 12 min fritz crisler ute ts quarters during the second half another story anent the game is told by an official that crisler requested officials to penalize michigan at every opportunity michigan would mould welcome the loss of yardage if we look like were going to score blow the whistle and penalize us despite humanitarian efforts the score kept piling up the maroons marcons fumbled repeatedly in their own territory leaving michigan with little to do but make touchdowns T registered no complaints pla ints gercys gates it so long ago that francis schmidt earned his sobriquet bar the gates of mercy schmidt it all happened during his first year of coaching at ohio state the buck eyes went wild against a small college team completely overwhelming their opponents by an avalanche of touchdowns schmidt overly happy about the victory Chi cagos present situation is somewhat ironical chicago players of past years were themselves occasionally TM accused of shutting and locking the gates of mercy before simon pure amateurism weakened its teams chicago rang up some colossal one sided triumphs at in 1918 coach alonzo stagg watched his man eaters defeat great alonzo stagg lakes to 0 the same school beat monmouth college by a score of to 0 more than 25 years ago in 1916 georgia tech whipped cumberland to 0 no one could call the encounter a football game it even a good track meet but that victory aroused the engineers for two years later they were responsible for the following statistics on successive saturdays georgia tech furman 0 georgia tech eleventh cavalry 0 georgia tech N C state 0 the tables were turned the following saturday when georgia tech met the university of pittsburgh and lost 32 to 0 from then on it was a policy of live and let live yale by points one of the worst defeats a major team ever suffered was in 1884 when yale beat dartmouth to 0 at that time however yale was much the brighter star in the football firmament sometimes a coach is almost powerless to stop a touchdown barrage when 11 husky young men step out on a gridiron fired with enthusiasm thusia sm there tor for one purpose and to play football they pull no punches and give the game everything they can they expect their opponents to follow a similar course when one of those young men gets the pigskin in his arms he wait to be tackled he wants to gain ground if a long forward pass is sailing in ready to settle in his arms he cant ignore it even though it means old may be outnumbered by an additional six points second third and fourth string substitutions sometimes fail to help hel matters when the score is overwhelmingly one sided those boys are to too 0 eager to prove they can really play football often more vicious in their attack than the starting lineup line up so dont be too hasty in condemn ing the winning coach in a top heavy victory hes probably try ing his best to stop an irresistible force sport shorts A A approximately annu ann ally is spent by western conference schools on xray X ray examinations for injured players during the football season two hundred miles of adhesive tape is used for bandages honolulu has a barefoot football league charley keller series hero canceled a number of profitable 4 engagements to go to washington for the variety clubs charity show he refused to accept even expense money for the latter football at the university of california showed a net profit of in 1938 V A survey shows charlie that boston and los keller angeles have the lowest percentage of listeners to baseball broadcasts chief bender newly appointed manager ma nager of connie macks wilmington del farm is a indian and 56 years old about dogs are benched each year at shows licensed and sanctioned by the american kennel club there were all breed limited breed and specialty shows held during 1938 only four penalties were called in a recent pennsylvania harvard football game a and nd two of those were declined bill shaul syracuse N Y claims a bowling avera average ge for 16 years ray roberts michigan trainer is a pioneer in the development of protective devices for athletes fewer than 30 per cent of english boxers earn as much as 25 a week dr emanuel lasker was worlds chess champion from 1894 to 1921 sid luckman would like to coach football next year king 0 of civino swing 0 ARRY HEILMANN the last hman man to hit in a season of batting against american league pitching declares that one of these seasons joe di maggio of the new york yankees will reach that mark furthermore Heil heilmann marin believes di maggio to be the greatest of allaround ball players A detroit radio announcer heilmann eilmann II states that joe is the best outfielder he be ever saw and that includes tris speaker ue he gives the young italian credit for having a better better throwing arm than any outfielder out fielde r past or present and including bob JM Al eusel and one of these seasons he insists joes line drives and hard smashes are going to get through the infield or going down clown the alleys between the outfielders then hell have his mark heilmann heilma reached the mark in in the 1823 1923 season during three other seasons he hit and |
