The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-07

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By vEDDER g RID

t- dlNGO nave COIHc "
pretty pass in the West
- ern Conference when a
team can not schedule four games
of football with Big Ten members
without playing the same team
twice. The new ruling which
made it obligatory to play four
conference teams made 1t
necessary for Minnesota to card
two games with Michigan and In
diana University to arrange home
and-home contests with North
western
We rather believe this will be
temporary schedule and that
some way the teams involved will
straighten out the tangle. With
such a short season it seems
ridiculous for team to play two
games with the same foe.
Every well-intentioned rule
seems to have a joker hidden away
in it somewhere. Next year the
rule should read -four games with
different Big Ten teams"
y -
The Indiana Officials Associa-
ton will meet tonight at $40
Board of Trade Bldg, to discuss
the basketball rules. Big Ten
interpretations will be explained
by Stanley FEEBLE, who was at
the meeting in Chicago last
weekend.
E-aONDER what Major Crit
iWI fifth of the Big Ten willesay
D about the Missouri Valley
Conference dropping golf from in
tercollegiate sport? Seemingly one
of the majors pet diversions is
baseball. He says profession
alism has ruined it as an amateur
sport. Every time a college says
it Is through with the diamond
pastime, Griffith winds himself
up and lets loose more oratory
on the subject.
He always ends up with a warn
ing: "Now that's what will hap
pen to football and basketball and
golf if they became profession
alized.'
In the Majors mind golf is per-
fectly o. K. He doesn't seem to
know that there is probably more
betting done on the links than
anywhere else or that the pro
golfers, make other professionals
look like pikers.
Major Griffith doubtless will
overlook the fact that golf has
been dropped in the valley" He
will certainly ignore it if he can't
twist it around some way to suit
some of his arguments. In real
lty, 1t doesn't mean thing.
@7HE latest style i'm collegi-
ate f0otbaIl-two grid
captains. Missouri started
the fad for next season by an
nouncing that two of its mem
bers would alternate in leading
the eleven after each had re-
ceived the same number OF
votes for the captaincy. Now
Notre Dame has the same stu
alton and meets 1t in the same
way.
Ii looks as though it ought to
work. The captaincy of a col
Iege grid outfit is largely an hon
orary affair anyway. The coach
tells the players what to do and
the man who calls the signals on
the field is not the captain as
a general rule.
The more honor spread around
the better. That's about all
there is. An even better plan
might be to have q new cap
tain each game.
E~7ELL, Notre Dame has done
Ml something other colleges
" have failed to do--drag one
Of those California football elevens
away from home. According to
press dispatch from South Bend
the Irish are to play University
Of Southern California next Dec.
6, and in 1927 the HARVEST club
is to come to South Bend. Hoo-ray!
"Red" Grange is good "on the
air" After throwing two out
of three passes for good gains,
receiving toss himself, and in
tercepting one for run of thir-
ty-five yards for a touchdown
in the New York Giant game,
Grange broadcasted i'm the eve
ming and told the world how to
be a good football player.
1VER hear Of Pottsville, Pa?
III. Don't say no, say maybe.
- The eastern city is leading
the professional football league.
Remember how the Bears and
Cards played a tie in Chicago?
Well, Pottsville beat the Cards
en- Sunday, Fl to Z. Pottsville has
no "Red" Grange in the lineup
That's why you never heard Of the
club maybe.
The mining town club does have
person by the name of French.
however. He used to play at West
Point and last summer was a mem.
Der of the Philadelphia Athletics.
Mr.. French's play on Sunday made
some of the 5000 fans in the White
Sox ball park think there was
some mistake and that Grange was
out there going at his very best.
$50
r. HE basketball coaches
should not be too severe on
- the youths who want to
go to dances this season. The
Charleston should be a great de-
veloper Of net performers. The
new dance craze improves the
footwork immensely. The pivot
used in the terpsichorean efforts
would defy the best guards.