Show 0 RC ANY are called and many will N MANY be chosen at least football head coaches not to overlook more than 2500 assistants are scanning the present and future draft lists with anxious eyes after all both army and navy officials want football to keep moving at its old pace without e any exemptions fo for r those who happen to be forward passers or blocking backs whenever their number comes come S grantland nice along it is only reasonable that footballs head men should be busy checking on a season that is now less than a month away it is only human for a coach to hope tor for as good a break as his rivals draw in the big gridiron lottery of 1941 just at present there is no way to arrive at any informative facts I 1 asked dr nicholas murray butler president of columbia university ver sity just how the draft situation was in the lair of the lion As closely as I 1 can amne make an estimate dr butler said enlistments ants and the draft together will take away something like students from columbia the college or university toll all over the country will be heavy I 1 any idea how many on the columbia list are football players there will be some of course but the majority called out will be seniors or post posit graduates there has been a heavy demand for engineers and chemists all over the country it would uld be my guess that football will have a larger number of younger players than we have normally seen upon the field the college count columbia is one of the count rys larger universities but it if the university count is around here it should be nearly the same at california university 4 michigan illinois ohio state minnesota northwestern and southern california there would be J no such total at harvard yale princeton cornell nicholas mii mi i amsy dartmouth stan butler ford and most of the southern and southwestern um universities versi ties that fall well below any enrollment they will lose the same percentage however the college contribution to army navy air force and marines will be something over students dating from july to october this may be an underestimate it will be in the next six months N no 0 hurt to the alie game but all of this will have no hurtful effect on the football campaign ot of 1911 1941 it would make little difference even if it did but it wont work that way there will be just as much keen competition as there ever was there will be just as much nationwide excitement and interest there will be just as many big crowds some universities will suffer in a football way more than others this ils is completely unimportant with the world as it is today but on most football squads there are always many who must be overlooked these will be given a better hance chance this fall for football after all college football was started and for many years carried on as the greatest of all competitive sports in the last 10 or 20 years the pressure put upon coaches to bring along ax winning inning teams has done the game no good in any way it has developed not only but direct pay to an unbelievable extent x the bidding tor for winning coaches has gone beyond all sound reasoning there has been tar far too much so called national champions championship hp winning big time stuff in a game supposed to be played by young college students seeking in the ma main in an education I 1 have never believed that any college football star should receive in in any way any more financial assistance si than any good average student should get whose main idea was an education there have been too many paid players all over the country and many of these have been no better than hundreds of others who loved the game and could play go good od football and often never had bad a chance the fellows who were taken care of who had cost money had to have the first call with the draft cutting in with the element of chance now involved this seems to be the right spot for a general cleaning up where the alumni pressure and the coaching pressure tor for a winning team can be removed |