San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-23
FLASH TURNS
PRO With
REASONS
Realizes Fame Fleeing and
Wants to Cash In,
He Says.
By WARREN w. BROWN
Service Staff Core,

Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO, Nov. %. - Harold
"Red- Grange today, in an exclusive
interview, outlined his reasons for en-
tering professional football against the
wishes of his father and his best
friends.
Il don't see why there has been all
this racket over my going into pro-
fcssional football Grange said.
You'd think the pro players were
lot of buns. and people NOT fit to as
soc;ate with. A college man Ike
George Sisler can go into baseball and
make money out of something that he
did at college and not a word is said
against il.
"A professor in college can make
some important discovery and cap
ifalize on that. and it's all right. But
/ happen to have made a few touch
downs and so on, and because / can
make money trying to make some more
fouchdowns in pro football everybody
says it's terrible.
LOTS OF ADVICE.
perhaps shouldn't say everybody.
guess opinion is divided. / get
lot Of letters on the subject and an
awful lot of advice. Advice is the
easiest thing in the world 10 get. One
SIDE says I'm a darn fool if / don't
get the money, and the other side says
Tn a darn fool if / do. So there you
are.
I'm going into professional foot
ball to make monsy out of il, because
i like football, and because il is one
thing. possibly. that can do best
For the life of me, i cannot see
why there is SO much narrow-minded-
ness about professional football. If
a fellow goes into IL in the proper
spirit. plays his game as best he can.
uses his head and takes care Of him
self and doesn't waste his energy, i
can't see that il is any different from
college football.
I'm anxious TO get the money
now. because ten years from now no
body viii give a darn who ] am or
what / was. All they'll want to know
is how much money have you. They
won't care then how you got IL.
Next fall, when the football season
comes around, there will be new faces
and new names, and a new deal all
around. 1t doesn't take the public
long to forget any one fellow.
Il wonder what the gang at II
linois will say about me? / want the
world to know that when / sing
Illinois Loyalty / mean it-every
word. I'm for Illinois and always
will. be. ] expect that some of them
will be off me. but I'm acting as ]
think best. I'm making an honest
choice of occupation and, after Ill
this present racket quiets down, maybe
everyone viii think, as ! do, that ]
have done right.
Some people have written me and
told me that l owed it TO Illinois 70
stay in school. / don't think that is
right ] paid my tuition.
MEANS HARD WORK.
Il gave all ! had 10 Illinois. Poo
pie don't stop 10 think about what a
football player has 10 20 through OF
College. All they know is about the
games. But there's that daily grind.
three and four hours of hard practice.
You're worn out when it is over, but
have your studies to KEEP up with, just
the same, You never have an after
noon 70 yourself in the season. Even
Sundays are taken up with talk
tests.
You can't 20 10 dances. you can't
20 TO parties. you can't turn around
for those three months Of the year.
And it isn't much better during the
other months. II you 20 out some
where and have q good time. some
body always sees YOU. and talks about
it and the next thing you know the
report is ont that sO-and-sO is out
raising hell and won't be worth a darn
10 the team next fall.
"That's what you have TO 90
through. That's what I've gone
through for three years.
Il often wonder if it was worth il.
i wonder,if / had never played foot
ball. if wouldn't have had a better
time Of it and enjoyed my days in
college more"