The Ely miner., 1929-11-22
BRONKO NAGURSKI
MISSES CALLING
Coach Spears of Minnesota
Lauds Ability Of Gopher.

sofa football team rates Bronko Ma
gurski as the best tackle in the West
ern conference when he's playing thai
position and the best full back If he
happens to be stationed at that i'm
portant post.
but you ought to see him play
end" said the Minnesota coach the
other day in tanning bee when he
was about ready to admit to his lis.
teners that his all around star prob.
ably is the best football player he ever
had.
'I've had to move this 200 FOUNDER
around to suit our needs last year
and this year." the coach started in.
Il have known all along that no mat
ter where l put him he will do all !
ask him, and more than that If |
kept him where he's at his best he
would play end all of the time. He
can and has run the hundred in 10.1.
Last year and again this year he's
running any of my backs any time
they challenge him.
"As pass grabber he's the last
word. At running interference or
breaking up opposing plays and smear
ing the runner, we'll, as an end he
does these things just little bit bet
ter than he does as a tackle or full
back"
The All-American is a good news
paper or magazine gag; it also stimu-
lates and encourages some players, but
as far as doing what it pretends to do
is concerned, it is a joke and always
will be. Ninety per cent of the ma
terial on which the selection is based
is pure hearsay, no one man being able
to see more than a dozen or so teams
In action, and often this hearsay is
all hoOey. Occasionally man will look
good because of weak opposition, while
far better man is barely able to
keep his head above water in the
toughest kind of going.
The All-American is like the dis
tinguished service awards to soldiers.
Some fellows who deserve them get
them, but thousands who have a bet
Rutgers university celebrated the
sixtieth anniversary of the first in
tercollegiate football game, at special
chapel, Ex-senator George Ell. Large of
Flemington, N. j., and several other
members of the Rutgers football team
which defeated Princeton by the score
of 6 to in the first intercollegiate
contest on November 6. 1869, were
guests of honor. DR.. John M. Thomas,
president of Rutgers, and Col. John
T. Axton, university chaplain, were
the principal speakers. and the entire
varsity and freshmen football squads
will he present.
Worlds featherweight pugilistic title
stock hit a new high on the big board
of the New York sock exchange in
Madison Square Garden the other day.
Matchmaker Tom McArdIe bid 37h
per cent of the gate receipts for the
services of Battling Battalino in title
bout with Kid Chocolate the latter
part of January, but Pete Reilly. the
Bats private broker, asked fiat guar
antee of $4,000. There was no sale.
Out6elder Fothergill has been rec
ognized for the last few years as the
most formidable pinch batter in the
league. He is to Detroit what Moose
Mccormick used to be to the New
York Giants.
According to Fothergill his lifetime
pinch batting average is better than
400. If this is the case, and Mr.. Foth-
ergill is a gentleman who exercises
extreme care in keeping his batting
records straight, then FOthergill
slumped in 1929 when he batted only
800 in the pinches. Still, it was better
than anyone else did.
The punting of Capt. Jim Mooney of
Georgetown has been an important
factor in the teams success this sea-
son in keeping the enemy out of
Georgetown territory. In early season
games Mooney repeatedly outdistanced
rival kickers by from 10 to 20 yards.
His work this year has surpassed that
of last season, when he was consid-
cred one of the best kickers in the
country.
Florida takes it's football seriously
When Florida met Georgia Tech in At
lanta it was accompanied by 1,5O0 stu
dents and $500 other fans, including
Gov. Doyle e. Carlton and ten state
officials. holiday was declared at
the university.
Ben Lom, stellar halfback of the
University of California, is probably
the most nicknamed player in recent
years at the Berkeley institution.
Every now and then in the course
of football history player crops up
whose distinctive style of play earns
him name that sticks. In early days
at California, for instance. there was
Locomotive" Smith. Another was
kangaroo Pete" Kaarsberg, so named
for his commendable agility in cata-
putting himself over the opposing ,ine
by stepping on teammates back,
using him as human spring.
So it is with Ben Lom. who is listed
in the students directory as plain Ben
jamin LON of San Francisco. Unlike
the aforementioned gentlemen in the
local football hall of fame. LON has
many nicknames.
Nipht football games among schools