Show ig VC 9 I 1 TT MUST be remembered in your remaining prognostications sd cat ions and your selections that while american football ls Is the greatest game gime ever invented when it it comes to a mixture ot of spirit and a nd skill to condition to k player interest and to crowd excite W ment meat it is still hn an unbalanced game to in the way of lust just rewards the better team always win not by 50 kilometers I 1 have talked this season with ver over 20 leading coaches coaches about this phase of football and they all agree M 1 they admit that you can outplay another team badly along the ground and through the aar aarand and still till lose the ball game ame ive located over grantland nice 40 teams this season who have made more yards along uie the ground g 0 O u d and through the air and have had b ad the better kicking and tin till have III lost I 1 0 st 1 when two good teams meet the breaks almost always carry the winning story which means the he flip of a coin this Is no indictment of football as a game it Is the turn that gives the underdog his chance against better football people it is the factor that gives its thrills to big crowds which have realized there are few setups first downs have become minor factors actors on a recent saturday 17 teams made more first downs and greater create yar yarda d age geIn in many cases by decisive margins and yet lost it Is something like an open golf championship pion ship with a vast roulette wheel spinning the answer but it Is stupid to say always that the better team won it is often truer to say the lucky team won and most coaches know this calling the turn the forward pass came along in 1906 that was 34 years ago four years later some 30 years ajo ago I 1 happened to be with hurry up yost of michigan and bill hanna one of the star football writers who was a veteran when frank hinkey was a freshman at this Is a new game yost told as 08 irve f found at michigan we can beat bea t the he second test team m by se seven ven touchdowns on tuesday and fall to score on wednesday passes and plays click one day they dont the next neit its all different that was 30 years ago but yost saw what was coming a better game for the player a far better game tor for the crowd but no longer a game tor for past performance nor for accepted form yost at that time saw ahead how bow many better football teams were going to be beaten by underdogs under dogs by minor teams for example minnesota this ibis season minnesota stepped into one of the toughest schedules of the year id say the toughest the gophers barely scrambled by washington and I 1 happen to know that both jimmy phelan and washington thought they should have won with 30 per cent of the breaks ohio state had bad two easy chances to beat minnesota and blew both which is nothing to buckeye credit an intricate play called in the rain for a one yard touchdown wasted one of them one point after touchdown for northwestern would have tied minnesota Ine sota two points after touchdown would have won the point after touchdown Is the cheap con concession cission from the rules committee to the crowd not to the good of football in the michigan game the wolver ines were all over the gophers something like IS 15 first downs to 6 5 michigan that day was the better team on the field but minnesota won on a single play yet I 1 still say minnesota has turned in the best beat job of the year barring nobody when you look at the gopher schedule yet I 1 without the breaks minnesota could easily have lost at least three ball games maybe four minnesota this fall all a veteran big nine coach told me was like iowa low awas wax last I 1 year lows iowa last year could easily have been beaten by indiana minnesota pardue and notre dame which eddie anderson knows notre dame was in the same ame spot notre dame on the days play could easily have lost los it to both army and navy when you play tough schedules anything can happen youve got to give minnesota credit tor for taking the years big gam ble blea a gamble that even minnesota might easily have lost three ways but it has still been the big job of 1940 for one game the main angle in football elmer layden of notre dame said is the mental attitude tor for one game I 1 know how bow army armmand Arm yand and navy shoot tor for us I 1 told you that you could throw out all other games when you get set to win one game no one can say what will happen for example blocking and tackling are about 80 per cent spirit tor for that one day dont figure that any unbeaten team rides safely they definitely do ROL not |