The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-29
TALKING
IT OVER
BIZ JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-One OF
IN the beautiful things about-tht
professional football coach is the fine
unselhsf way in which he pestov'
unstinted batteries upon his brother
coaches in the public prints. Thu
IS particularly true of the profes-
sionaI coach who writes pieces OF
has pieces written for him in thu
papers under his name
r.
since the season started. have been
following the literary works Of the coaches
as disclosed in such sheets ss sponsor thi,
free-styIe species of journalism and the
eItrulstc esteem the wizards Of the grid
iron entertain for each other virtually
without exception has had very COM
fortinr effect on me.
mean 70 say I Ike to see everybody get
along in this best possible Of all worlds
and It strikes me as betokening a new era
md so manv masters Of the pigskin art
fgurativeiy slappnR one another on the
back IN the daily gazettes ano admitting N
IS no coach quite so skilled in the magic
Of the craft as good old Glen Rockne. IN
concave wing back formation. or good old
Kuute Warner the little Napoleon OF the
white striped battle field.
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II is really hearteninR to pick Up a paper
and read where good old ZUp Bobbke finds
himself at loss for words TO describe the
raw genius Of some coach who has Just
beaten him, and then to pick ~ another
psper and learn in another column of out
standing syndicsted bilge that this par
ficUlar coach Is stiIl in delirlum as the
result, Of beating good old Bob. because be
never imagined IL could be done and be-
sides after all 1t was the breaks that en-
sbed him TO win from the gray fox OF
the campus. who is genius if ever there
was one.
say such things are heartening be-
cause as long as the boys stick together
thew Vil continue to get along and do ali
right BY themselves. and some OF the boys
arc pretty god sams.eS At that
It may be that many OF the boys stopped
their typewriters and laughed right out
when they got the news from the west
smesred good Old Pop. Al to Il. giving him
But ii they dfd surrender to vindictiye
~BApiutIdl AlAIbA LIbf Ill came OUT buc
next day in their syndicated epics and ex-
pressed the belief that good old Pop must
be handicapped this year by terrible ma
ferlal. because he is really g genius and
all he needs to mould a championship
team while you wait is something fair to
work with.
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This probably is the fact because good
Old Pop admits the same thing himself.
Indeed, his very words on the subject
were: This years team Is the dumbest
J ever coached-and I've COACHED lot of
dumb ones This explains everything.
VOU see, good old pop is the
i Originator of the Warner sys-
tenn of football. This is an intricate
system involving A. B. and C. forma-
tions. And there are the wing backs
and the unbalanced line. It is prob
ably asking too much of bunch of
fat head sophomores to take hold of
this astounding offensive pattern
and make it click right off.
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You can readily see that the fault isn't
With good Old Pop or the Warner syS-
tenn. It's Just that the young men won't
steady down and master the thing and
make good Old Pop look like a great coach,
which he admits he Is.