The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-10
TALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK NOV lO'-4h@e liiie
IN mutual esteem and brotherly
affection the professional college
football coaches profess to hold for
each other seems to be shrinking
a little one of the unwritten laws
Of the trade is that one coach
mustn't humiliate member Oh the
fraternity by running up big score
against him and thus making him
look a trife inefficient if not down
right amateurish.
This fits neatly into the classification Of
rr,ctical altruism and is spawned By the
thouvbt that all the boys arc in the same
~ane irving to get along and do the best
,bev can. But over the weekend there
,,ye = number of top heavy results IN
irnortant games. the outcome OF which
made some Of the mentors look very GOOD
indeed and. conversely, some Of the others
very bad.
There we're. nfteen fairly i,m nIpsI AM
cceded nifty points, and score o. o aseI.s
where the pay-of figures soaTeo sDVt -
70 Southern CALIFORNIA; score Of "A
acsinst Caiifornia's nothing
Tbi, was the worst beating any team
ever suffered on the Pacific coast ana j
is expected that the coaches union VIII
start an early investigation. 1t Is very
hard for coach to pose as wizard and
genius when his team is slapped around
with such ychemence.
HOWARD JONES no DOUBT VIII
II be called upon to explain why
he was not satisfied to permit his
Troians to win by four or five
touchdowns and let it 80 at that.
You understand, Of course, that the
Young men who play the game have
very little to say about it and II
the coach does not want them To
run wild nc sees that they don't
bv the simple expedient of replace
ing the regulars with cheer leaders,
ushers and glee club singers.
II Il
Fven Knutc Rocknc forgot or Ignored
his fraternity pledge by allowing his Notre
Dame team to run M sixty points against
PENNSYLVANIA. Generally, Rockne IS the
most consideratc Of all coaches and II
his team can 90 out and get him two
touchdown lead he is willing to cau l.
an afternoon.
have heard that Rockne feels that t. he he
must operate on q modest ScoIlns Os snS
rate those who saw his Notre DamelISi
pIsv against Navy came away, pretty W. weii
ne,suaded that the score could nave peeil
q great deal more emphatic than 1t was
Il
ar course it may be that ROckne lust
eould not stop his team against the QuaR-
ers and that the winning total OF sixty
noints was flattery at that. He dian
appear to be putting on any more pressure
~ making any greater use of his regular
man mower than is his usual custom.
TOR one thing, the Pennsylva-
L mans we're completely confused
by the Notrc Dame shift and the
bocuspocus of the backs. Ihey
never seemed to know where the
ball was or who was going to carry
if with the result that at Tunes
some Of them were tackling the
referee. the field policemen ana the
water carriers.
At one stage during the hilarity ne
vildered young man in the PennsylVania
backfieId suggested that they stop trying
and wait until the morning papers CANT
out with the charts of the game showing
Who had Inc ball and where he was going
with IL. This might have helped matters
somewhat.
one Of the stars OF the game was young
MARTY Brill who scored three touchdoMhs.
It later developed that Brill had neeh
nromised ST 900 by his dad for eacn, IouCu-
down he made Football men verSed III lne
5nances Of the game insist TINS Is e&SeSslt,e
nav even for modern amateurs; Inns Is
almost as much as Colonel Jacob RupperI
paws George Herman Ruth LOT each hoi4e
run.
whether Brill can accept this money
without compromising his amateur status
is matter the Carnegie Foundation
agents may have TO act on. The idea oil
oferinE cash prizes for college tOuchdowns'
after the manner of bonuses for sprints at
the six-day bike races, may lead to en-
barrassnE situations.