Show speaking ot of sports 7 coaches attest unpopularity of grid slaughters by ROBERT mcshane WHEN W HEN gridiron war wa r giors raced over through and around the university universia sit of chicago Chi cagos s maroons marcons for an 85 to 0 victory on stagg field this the on one e sided score brought very little joy OY 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 verines merines it was a stampede few are the football coaches who want to 0 o see their rivals team humiliated mil milia ted A sense of decency and sportsmanship forbids that and if that enough coaches realize that football is an uncertain profession that some time in the future he might be on the losing end ot of one of those lopsided lop sided scores fritz crisler michigan coach reversed the usual gridiron order in the chicago game he ordered his team NOT to score touchdowns the score was 54 to 0 at the half and crisler wanted it to stay st at at that point he conferred with clark during the first half and the two coaches agreed upon 12 minute fritz crisler quarters during the second half 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 registered no complaints pla pIa 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 I 1 I 1 1 themselves occasion ass i ally accused of shut ting and locking the t gates of mercy before simon pure amateurism weakened its teams chicago rang up some colossal one sided triumphs in 1918 coach alonzo stagg watched his man eaters defeat great alonzo stagg lakes to 0 the same school beat monmouth c college 01 by a score of to 0 more than 25 years ago in 1916 georgia tech whipped cumberland to 0 no abne could call the encounter a football game it even a good track meet but that victory aroused the engineers eng 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 net met the university of pittsburg Pitts pittsburgh bur 9 h and lost 32 to 0 0 from then on it was a policy of live and let live yale by points one of the worst defeats a r major ajor 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 f ired fired with enthusiasm thusia sm there for 0 one ll 11 e 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 pets 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 ay be outnumbered by an additional six points so dont be too hasty in condemning the winning coach in a victory hes probably trying his best to stop an irresistible force sport shorts A approximately annu anally x 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 keuer keller series hero canceled a number of profitable engagements to go to washington for the variety clubs A charity show he refused to accept even 14 4 expense money for the latter football at the university of california showed a net profit tl of in 1938 1933 A survey shows charlie that boston and los keller angeles have the lowest percentage of listeners to baseball broadcasts chief bender newly appointed mai manager iager of connie macks wilmington del farm is a chippewa 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 1933 only four penalties were called in a recent pennsylvania l harvard football game and two of those were declined king of swing HARRY HEILMANN the last 11 ll man to hit in a season of batting against american league pitching declares that one of these seasons joe D di maggio of the new york yankees will reach that mark furthermore heilmann iann believes di maggio to be the greatest of allaround ball players A detroit r radio adio 1 announcer heilmann states that joe is the best outfielder he ever saw and that includes tris speaker he gives the young italian credit for having a better throwing arm than any outfielder past or present and including bob and one of these seasons he insists joes line drives and hard smashes are going to get through the infield or going down the alleys between the outfielders then hell have his mark |