Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-29
FOOT BALL GAMES
GATHER THE CASH
ALI Four Of Big Games in the
East This Fall Will Draw
Capacity Crowds.
MADAM vuANTQ Tn pATTT r.
MORAN WANTS TO BATTLE
By FRANK @. MENKE.

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Foot ball will pay some handsome
returns to the big colleges this year.
There is promise now of capacity
crowds at all the big games in both
east and west.
The record income, no doubt, will
be derived from the Yale Harvard
combat on November rs. The game
will be played in the Yale Bowl,
which has seating capacity of over
10000. Requests for seats already en-
brace more than 100000 tickets To
take care OF as many enthusiasts as
possible, the Yale authorities may
build 5000 extra seats.
The Harvard Stadium will seat
about $4,000, and the big Harvard
Princeton game there promises to lure
capacity crowd The new stands
at Princeton will take care OF over
10000 spectators, and seat demands
for the Yale-Princeton combat al
ready exceed the supply
Although the Army Navy date is
the same as that OF the Yale-Har-
ward, II is certain that the service
schools struggle in the Polo grounds,
New York, will attract the limit
crowd Of something like 41,000 At
s. per head, this means an income of
$i23, 1000, sum not to be shifted at
even in these days Of mushroom for
tunes.
The stands in the west are not as
huge as they are in the east, but every
one OF the big games will jam the
enclosure. 1t is safe to say that a
total OF close to 100000 will see the
four big games in the east and those
in the west.
= Moran Is Idle.
Francis Moran is poised for a
spring at the frontispiece Of Carl Nor
ris, or any other battler Of the
dreadnaught class, but none of the
promoters is taking any feverish in
terest in it. Moran no longer is the
drawing card OF six or eight months
ago. That fiyver showing against
lack Dillon sort OF Cooked" him.
The Pittsburgher, however, hasn't
forgotten the lesson that fracas taught
him. He isn't in strict training now,
but he is in good condition; in such
shape that few weeks of gruelling
will put him in tip-top shape.
And never again will Moran take any
chances OF being beaten by walking
into a ring considerably overplus in
all parts Of his frame.
Heston the Wonder.
willie Heston was the greatest
plunging halfback OF them all" de-
clares Fred NJ. Walker, who played
against him in the other days when
Walker was star in the Chicago
backficld. mo man could hit line
harder than the Michigan wonder;
1 none could batter up opponents the
way the Wolverine did,
aAs long as | live, I'll never for
get the game that Heston played
against us in 1904, when we beat
| Michigan, z to 0. Heston for num-
her OF wears had been tearing every
line to pieces without really exertine
| himself. And then he bumped agains
us. He threw himself at our line time
and again--and almost as often we
| threw him back. His failure infuri-
| ated him and he played from then on
like he was 'fiend possessed. He
hurled his mighty body at the Maroon
defense with fury and energy and ev'
ery time we stopped him, it only add
ing to his determination to teal
through us.
II was playing halfback that day
and on defense was right back OF tht
line bolstering up our weakest side
Time and again Hcston smashed anc
rammed into me. That was twelve
years ago, but | still feel the bruises
that he inflicted when he crashed into
me. He had more strength and powel
than any man have ever seen on
gridiron. His body, compact, almos
squatty, came like projectile whei
| he hurled it forward. When h,
crashed into a man. in that freal
bucking way he had, the chances wer'
that the man would flip out of hi
|, path as does pin on a bowling al
lev when ball hits 1t.
1--WE won that game on a safety
, but when the final whistle blew
Z believe that every man on our team
4 was battered and bruised in a dozcl
;. different places from stopping Hes
toms bull-like rushes. And Heston
the human battering ram! Well, a
far as could see he came out OF TIL
g battle unmarked, although he mus
: have hurled himself hundred time
against our line"