The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-11
Schedule Maker Plays Big Part In Team's Record
By HARLAN s. MILLER

NEW YORK, Nov, 10.--Behind every crime of violence, counsel ad- wise the French, who are experts in their own line, to Took for the woman"
 Behind every collegiate football championship, which is often & crime of more or less violence, look for @ shrewd sculptor of safe and sane schedule of games.
 Perhaps the maker of safe and sane football schedules for collegi- ate champions should be compared to a chef rather than a sculptor.
 It Is his duty to begin the season for his team with soft appetiZing tid-bit, a hors- -de-ouvre, or possibly soup that can be taken in liquid form. on the warm, acheful days of September.
 Should follow. then, fish course, some finny denizen of the gridiron shallows who. sporty though he be, may still be landed without too may bruised hip bones and craniums. The second and third games on the schedule. however, should not be too fishy.
 Then cone the raw October and November days when. no matter how light the appetite of the would-be college champion may be, he must ent heavy, meaty, dishes, if cham pion he would be. For good
  CT, almost any opponent has diges- tive possibilities.
 But here, too, the chef concoctins the football schedule can show good Judgment if he has any; he can vary the dark meat with judicious slices Schedule Maker An Expert.
 By such astuteness in cooking and catering, schedule maker can bring his eleven to as indigestible des- sert course as he pleases, on Thanksgiving Day or thereabouts.
 If the dish agrees with the boys. they are champions. If it is too rich, the team at least ranks among tn powerful machines of the sea- son.
 One of the tragedies of the 1923 football season has been the record of the Pittsburg Lions Possibly this team is as powerful a gang of ruffians as ever deserved to enjoy a prosperous season. Yet now It's tally stands: won, two; lost, four; and the boys from the smoky city don't deserve the stigma. The sched- ule maker is at fault.
 As an appetizer Pittsburg was handed the lusty Bucknen eleven. bagged two touchdowns from Yale; yet Pittsburg trimmed it. Next came LaFayette, on an early season date when susequhanna or Villanova would have been more appropriate. Yet the Pittsburg team nabbed an- other victory.
 But now followed West Virginia, Syracuse, Carnegie Tech and Penn sylvania in rapid succession. It was too much. No football team could digest such lot of bear meat when the gnashing and the catter- xr-ai ffchr Nf the most thoroughly beaten elevens in the east.
 Nebraska Has Tough Road.
 The case of Nebraska is equally sad with needless tragedy. Nebras- ka may not be quite as strong this year as of yore. Yet it has one of the strongest elevens in the Mis- souri Valley conference. And what has it been asked to chaw at? Noth- ing less than Illinois, Oklahoma. Missouri and Kansas, with Notre Dame last Saturday!
 Almost equally pathetic is the case of the "one-building" colleges, with perhaps 100 able bodied males, who are blessed with Napoleonic makers of schedules.
 A schedule, which leaves the issue in doubt all season whether the home boys or the opponents will total the greater tally, is, in many ways. ideal. This desideratum has been approached thus far this sea- son by Columbia. which boasts 41 points by Haughton's Novitiates against Al for the enemy Georgia Tech is also tied with its assembled foes, 72 to 72. Despite it's inhuman schedule. Pittsburg stills tops its seasons rivals, 37 to 29. What a marvellous defense that indicates!
 Other schools with delicately bal anced schedules attested by their total scores are: Fordhanf A. op- ponents, AZ; Gettysburg, 54, oppon- ents, 51: Nebraska, 38, opponents, al; North Carolina, 62, opponents, "a; Ohio State, 39, opponents, 73; Purdue. 5s, opponents, 6S; and Swarthmore, 37, opponents, 54.