Show aa W 0 1 ARE A RE football players today larger or smaller than old time line up ups s A firm ot of experts that deals in such vital statistics tor for a matter ot of record sends in this query we have no accurate figures at hand but we doubt that modern football carries any more weight than S N the old time parade once offered A one reason is that every year the he game demands demand 8 g greater reater ape speed e d and quickness quickie se i which Grantland nIce found any too often among the behemoths and mastodons you might think the modern game had the bulge in weight when you recall such men as cal hubbard musso joe abar al blozis wee willie wilkin turk edwards and others from the pro ranks but these were the pick ot of a lot that was both massive and active two elements needed in any professional line fine these can be listed as the gam boling mammoths mam moths picked from the entire football map but B ut when it comes to average college weights there were more than enough big men from 30 or 40 years ago many of them too big for or the modern modem passing game looking back looking back a few decades I 1 cant rec recall a 11 any heavier squad than hurr hurry yup Y up yost once had beneath michigan Michi garek banner of maize and blue they were on hand nearly 40 years year a ago in this list at various times I 1 recall the following fairly husky specimens from 1901 to 1908 1906 germany center 8 6 feet beet 4 inches pounds curtis tackle pounds octy graham guard pounds tackle pounds nell neil snow at end weighed and W il le heston was around who backed up the line and tackled at either end and all over the field was the most active big man I 1 ever saw his closest rival was cal hubbard the old days also were full of giants glass of yale edwa edwards ads of princeton pats fats henry of W and J gordon brown of yale babe white of syracuse of yale in addition to crushing roan man power and no one has ever accused minnesota of playing lightweights year sifter after year Roc knes favorites knute Roc knes two favorite notre da dame m e teams included no giants these thes e were the four horsemen outfit jat and the 1930 squad ive always thought hl his a four horsemen and his seven mules were closest to his football soul for the r reason eason they happened to be one of th the e lightest big time teams toot foot ball ever knew the average weight ot of th the e four horsemen in the backfield was around pounds elmer leyden layden at fullback was harry was crowley and miller around adam walsh one N of the best of centers was in the general neighborhood of ISO maybe less I 1 elmer layden rip miller na avys brilliant line coach was a pound tackle pounds and speed the notre dame team was probably a stronger outfit it packed many mahy extra pounds and still had speed joe was its biggest back but alter after losing around rock still had marchy schwartz marty brill and a few others left enough to crush a fine southern california outfit on that team rock had bad a midget guard by the name of metzger who ranged somewhere from to pounds rockne rarely had bad men in action above he wanted speed peed quickness agility my guess to if there would be no great weight change in football over a long period of years but this Is I 1 still till a guess 0 boston college had one of the heaviest teams in the country through 1942 with a massive line but it handle the greater speed of holy cross and alabama weight to in football li Is still unimportant con compared pared with speed and quickness but that mean football still cant use a flock of af big fel el lows who know how to move around mel heln bulldog turner musso henry blozis or hubbard Hub baid big last fast men always will wW be the answer to a coach prayer and that ii true of more sports ports than football speed and size ilze are essential to modern modem basketball but here speed is necessary its usually the smaller mm man who oils fills the bill |