The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-19
/ ALKING
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIA,ds
NEW YORK. Nov.


MYTH only a. few scattered pre-
w cincts to be heard from and
more than two-thirds of the total
vote counted
The best football team in the cast
is Pittsburg.
The best in the middle-west is
Notre Dame.
The best in the south is Ten
.nessee.
4 And the best in the west IS, is, is
well. if 1t isn't California, who
IFS it?
Perhaps this summary could with a
thin vestige Of logic and lusHce pc
urjtinr that the best football team In the
works is Notre Dame. .
But If any one from Pennsylvania
should chance to give you an argu-
ment on this demanding specific
proof that Notre Dame is superior
10 Pittsburgh. the easiest and most
convenient attitude to take is one OF
icy aloofness backed up with a
whitening, SIS that SOP"
1T is never advisable to get very
i deep into these controversies in
volving relative greatness par
4 ticularly when the teams in question
4 are not scheduled to meet each
other, because the consequences
seldom lead to anything more
judicial or convincing than COM
munity riots. free-for all fights and
over taxed hospital wards.
4 Perhaps the best thing to do in such
circumstances is 10 adopt a calm. dis
interested. academic position and gener-
ousIy admit that all the Unbeaten elevens
are very good and that il is quite silly to
a''eunpt 20 classify them on basis of
comparative power.
This is not at all difficult to do II
you happen to be an alumnus of
dear old Wilberforce, Millsaps. Up
sala- or even Princeton. There is
something about long string of de-
feats that cools the passions and
enables the habitually militant en-
thusiast to view the general foot
ball picture with a fine, even bal
anced judgment.
TN this connection it should be
u noted that there is never any
criticism from any source about
over emphasis when the football
team has a mediocre season. 1t
is only when the varsity has fast
set of backs and a hard charging
line and victories are piled up one
on top of the other that the familiar
alarm is sounded.
From this the obvious CONCLUSION IS mat
footballs Utopia-as viewed by the fac
uIty and such outside agencies the
Carnegie FoundatiOn-will be populated
by teams that never win: teams that never
approach perfection. and teams thst never
gain the eight column banners in the late
Saturday editions.
And In such place of course it will
always be possible to get tickets TO the
big game on the. 50-yard line and IN any
quantity. Mike Jacobs however. viii have
no interest in it,. Jacobs is ticket specu-
lator OF international repute. When there
are no tGkets TO t pc had "a ay%hepg etS9
knowledge that coupe of generals had
to go TO him to buy tickets for the Army
Notre Dame game here last season and a
rumor is current that President Angel OF
Yale is negotiating with Jacobs Tor an
extra pair for Saturdays game with Har-
ward at Cambridge.
u
INCIDENTALLY this is an inter
l. esting phase of the modern col
lege system which the Carnegie fell
lows failed to investigate. Jacobs
was never mentioned on any of
Walter Camps all-American teams.
He can't tell a full back from full
sophomore. His entire experience
in an institution of higher learning
was confined to an interrupted Sc
mester in a local barber college,
from which he was funked for split
ting hairs with a captious customer.
Yet Jacobs always has plenty OF
tickets for the football games.
n
All right fellows. altogether now. nine
rahs and a locomotive for good old Mike.
Or would you rather have Rolls Rovce,