The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-25
SAYS EASTERN
FOOTBALL IS
ALL RIGHT
Veteran Pilot Watches Old
Charges Trounce Penn
State, 80 to 0
CALLS PITT GREAT TEAM
Anything That Adds to Spec.
tacular Is Worth Re-
tanning
BY EDWARD j. NEIL.
ASSnciatcd prr~s Shorts Nrltpr)

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Nrter)
Pittsburgh, Nov. -. - tAP) -
Eastern football is "al right, y
and so is the football Of other see
tions-but for real hard and prog
ress handling Of the pigskin, give
Glenn "Pop" Warner the game as It
is played on the Pacific coast.
The veteran pilot Of Leland Stan
ford. whose husky leaders OF the
coast conference probably will be
called upon to beat Pittsburgh IN
the classic post-season clash Of cast
and west at the tournament Of Roses
in order to save "Pop' from having
to "cat his words" was back east
for the purpose of studying grldlron
wares as he spoke.
pop came back to Pittsburgh
Yesterday to watch the team ne
coached from 1915 through 1923
swamp Penn State 30 to 0 under the
direction of Clock" Sutherland, a
crack guard on the greatest eleven
Warner thinks he ever tutored =
that Of 1916, and as Pop watched
his prospective rivals. he found
much to marvel at in driving
eleven that cuffcd the Nittany
Lions about as no other team has
this season
Backfield Is Perfect
"That team said Warner, "Is the
best l have seen this year and I've
watched great MAN.. The back
field is about perfect. TIC line fast
and aggressive. and they sio every
thing well. Sutherland has two
really great backs in 'Gibby WEIGH
and Jimmy Hagan."
pop thinks that the advantage
is all with the eastern team in in
tersectional classics such as the bat
tie scheduled in the Rose Bowl at
Pasadena, Calf, on January /.
They come west thrilled to pieces
by the spectacle, spurrcd to topmost
fightins, pitch by floods of letters
and kilograms from eve1...onc back
home praying for their success. and
they battle as only the underdog can
in strange surroundings. There is
"a. slight handicap in e,anged eli
mate conditions but not enough to
offset this tremendous psychology
cal advantage.
Game Is Old Story
at is different with the eleven
the west chooses. To them the game
is an old story. The spectacle isn't
new, and it just seems to the play
crs as though way has been found
to add a month to the long season
and pour extra d.llars into the ath-
letic association treasures
AS for the rule of the game, War
ner thinks there has been enough
tampering and that it is time now
to let we'll enough alone. The
changes that set the goal posts 10
yards off the playing field and
legislated the lateral pass into more
frequent use by outlawing loss of
the ball through tumble, are AL
right and should be retained"
"Anything that adds to the spec
tacular in football is worth retain
ing" said the man whose trick plays
while coaching the Carlisle Indians
forced several new rules into the
books and led an opposing coach to
tell his charges before one game
'.just go in there and watch what
Warmers boys do and then do the
same thing"
Has No all-Amcrican
"Although hardly think the rule
makers intended it, they have made
it almost impossible to recover d
tumble on any play where one mar
hands the ball to another behind
the line. / never use laterals, but
they have opened up the game"
Warner said there were mo all
Americans" on his team although
Biff Hoffman, his fullback, is
"prctty good" His parting shot
was a tribute to a rival back, Nor.
lev Drucy, of the University OF
Southern California.
"He's a great back" said "Pop.'
land not one bit overrated. He
weighs $50 pounds and every ounce
Of it is moving forward all thu
time"