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Show f.Money Distribution POSSIBLY the sordid mention of money and money distribution shouldn't come into the matter of college football. - But when over a million dollars is being passed around it might be worthy of mention. men-tion. Oddly enough, the richest bowl of the lot the Rose Bowl doesn't help to make any team rich. Around $500,000 was collected at l the gate but Cali- vr'vwi fornia and Ohio i J, , State only got a '1 compara tively J small cut of this amount. Part of it ', a Ji f - went to the Rose w Bowl association f1; V j hut the major part ,1 - ; I went to the various I fp'"- I universities m a k- FrtfflrStrnautttaiUl jng up paCifjC Grantland Rice Coast conference and the Big Ten. So the Rose Bowl with its huge crowd and its immense gate can't I ; be named as a clean-up for any I single entry. I "The Big Ten really went in- to the Rose Bowl agreement," i a leading member of the or-j or-j gauization tells me, "to keep I the south away from these big 5100,000 pots. The southern institutions in-stitutions would then use a big part of this money to raid the North for material and build up stronger clubs. So we decided de-cided to cut off this source of revenue, without building up any single Big Ten team, or any small group of teams." The South's response to this' act .vas to build large plants for three bowl games that will pay handsome hand-some returns. For example, in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, both North Carolina and Rice were expected to take home over $100,000 each: At $4.80 a ticket and a paid admission admis-sion of 76,000, this was an easy trick. j The Sugar Bowl claims a total 'of 83,000 with a top price of $8 ar seat. This means $415,000, yielding a neat chunk for both teams. The Southeastern conference may have some rule of conference distribution, distribu-tion, but if so the plan hasn't been widely advertised. At the Orange Bowl, the guarantee is around $75,000 for each team., i So the past season the South and the Southwest have North Carolina, Kentucky, LSU, Rice, and Okla-'homa Okla-'homa raking in the gold, which could permit an even rougher invasion in-vasion of Big Ten territory. I haven't any idea what Big Ten teams have as a budget or expense pool in the way of securing se-curing talent. Maybe It Is j largely an alumni matter. But j many southern teams have well over $100,000 on tap, I have been informed by various - southern coaches and I don't j think these pools are there to j buy watermelons. One of these coaches told me recently that his university had only $65,000 with which to work. "How can I compete," he asked, "against rivals with $150,000. It is my idea, however, that all sections are just about the same iwhen it comes to the sanity code. (The alumni are upsetting the sanity san-ity chart. 4 Buffalo and Pro Football j If any city belongs in pro football, foot-ball, it is Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills, far from any championship 1 squad, frequently outdrew the Giants and Yankees in New York. ; They always outdrew the Bulldogs, i about 6 to 1. Buffalo is a hustling city with close to a miUion souls, plus a civic spirit many other cities lack. It is certain that a league of 13 cities will be a failure. fail-ure. It is still our steadfast belief be-lief that there must be two leagues with eight teams in each circuit a copy of baseball's base-ball's highly successful plan. Certainly Buffalo belongs in one of these leagues. Pro football has been so incredibly stupid in the past that it is impossible to forecast fore-cast any future act. But it is difficult diffi-cult to believe that pro football will continue this stupidity. If it does, a flock of owners will agair wind up swimming in red ink. The game has a great chance it handled. correctly. This means twt leagues of eight clubs each, meeting meet-ing in a football world series, wit) exhibition games in between. Ii the new organization is handled at one league, a few teams will make money but the big majority wil lose, just as the big majority have been losing heavily for the past 26 years. The Top Acrobat You hear about this ballplayci and that ballplayer being the besi all-around athlete, but there's onlj one outstanding acrobat. His namf is Joe Gordon of the Indians. Gordon began as one of Oregon'; greatest football prospects. Thej tell me that as a freshman he wa: 1 the best-looking prospect a coacl i ever sighted. But Gordon figuret he would rather play baseball anc I so he gave football the air. |