The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-28
Down With Grid Game Says Patton
 And Starts Rush
By WETBROOK PEGLER CLeased Wire The Age-Herald

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The fots- ball dumb-bel charged out from be- hind their desks in New York and other cities Monday and booted Dr. Stewart Patton of Princeton unlver- sity for a goal from the 90-yaru line.
 Doctor Patton is the lecturer on Neuro- Biology who recently found the affairs of his own department in such tidy order that he had time to de- nounce the institution of football as it is today in he big schools.
 His latest was the statement tnat if football were not abated, studens would so out into the world with football on the brain and never would rise above the mental level of foot ball.
 In a random selection of old foot ball names once famous at Harvard Yale and Princeton, it appeared that the football dumb bell is not alto gether deplorable when you consider him as one man among the rest of men.
 Mack Aldrich, captain of the Yale team in 1920 and one of Yale's really historic football men, should be one of the most eggregious dumb bells, if graduate stupidity runs in true proportion to undergraduate football celebrity.
 AIdrich Historic.
 Aldrich is historic at Val. He IS the captain who, in a Harvard game did a sporting thing that has be- come a tradition in the big three. His team, in critical moment, was pen alized for off side, and one of his line-men who hadn't seen anyone official pointed out Mack Aldrich. roar.
 Who was off-side?' He howled Nobody was off-side."
 That man there was off-side." The official pointed out Mack Alrich.
 I'm captain of the team" Alrich said. and I'm not yelling, am l?'
 Aldrich is the only Yale man ever toasted by a Harvard team, and in his time at school was spoken of at Harvard as "an ideal for Harvard men,"
 Mack is in the real estate business in New York. His friends did not care to say he had made his million so soon, for he is still a young fel- low, only couple of years out of school. But he hasn't been seen around the soup-kitchens.
 Charlie Taft, who spent four years of his boyhood in the White House and three autumns on the Yale varsity, is q lawyer in Cincinnati. The last heard of him by the Yale alumni weekly was that he was prospering and might soon be candidate for important office. He hadn't bought Cincinnati a new city hall, but he hadn't stolen the old one. either.
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 CurtIss FIourishing.
 Julian Curtiss is vice presi don't of the biggest sporting goods firm in America, and Foster Rockwell is an executive of the Bankers Trust com- pany. Nelson Talhott captain in 'l4, is a financier in Dayton, o. Ed Glass, whose football day was 23 years ago. is something important with the Stanley Steel company in New Britain, Conn. The great tackle of few years ago, sells enough insurance to buy gas for his own cars, anyway
 Cupid Black. fullback of the last great team at Yale before the great team of 1923 also sells insurance. but naturally less is heard from him in that field than was heard ot him on the striped sward of New Haven, Cambridge and Princeton.
 Chester La Roche, quarterback of the '16 champions, an advertising man in one of the biggest publish ing houses in America. said there were no big three varsity football men that he knew of wasting their time in the bush leagues of profess sional baseball, but few were coaching football teams.
 "They are not only making good money at it." La Roche said. but they're making mighty good men. I'm for football. It certainly can't harm a man to teach him to play hard and fair. As for the over whelming interest in football the best argument is that man can't play unless he qualities in his stud ies. Football men realize that they are prominent in school and the re- suit is that most of them set fine standing of conduct
 Walter Wheeler, Harvard captain in '16, and Billy Robinson. quarter back of the same team, are citizens doing we'll in New York, who don't have to ask the corner policeman the way home, Red Gennert, cen ter of Princeton for three years up to '16, and Hack McGraw, his team mate, have virtually assured them selves by now that they will not have to become night watchmen on the docks in their old age.
 There are some great football men who failed of success in busl- ness or professional life. but old varsity men discussing the thing, could only recall the names of two, off-hand. One drinks too much. The other just can't make the grade.