Evening star., 1931-12-22
HARVARD AND YALE
HAVE SET EXAMPLE
GrantIand Rice Sees Better
Things for HeavyWeights
in Fight Game.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

II
L through such stirring his
tory that more than usual
prominence was givento her 1881
gridiron collapse. 1t may have
been that Princeton improved IN
other ways through the same
stark span of defeat, but such
improvements get no publicity
and draw out no debate.
The point is that Princeton had
such terrible year, which result
ed in so much controversy, that a
new start seemed to be the best
way out, with a new coaching
staff and a new slant on the game
which doesn't involve any ethi-
cal changes.
How will Princeton handle her grid
iron future? What will be her coach
ing plans and her foot ball develop
ment? 1t strikes us that Princeton can
use outside help to good effect, just as
Harvard and Yale have done OF the
old triumvirate Harvard was the first
to break down the tradition that only
Harvard men could teach Harvard foot
ball. Horween broHght in assistants
from the Midwest. Yale then went TO
Metre Dame for Adam Walsh and later
added Benny Friedman
Why not? Foot ball is supposed to
be part of college life-in a way one Of
the college courses. II this is so. why
not get the best instructors available?
Yale went to Washington for Ed
Leader. Having crews TO train, Yale
decided the best thing to Go was to get
the best crew coach that could be
secured, and the fine work Ed Leader
has done in every way has proved that
Yale was right
There is no reason why Princeton has
to stick 10 Princeton men for her
coaching staff If there are better foot
ball teachers TO be got from outside
sources If foot ball Is important
enough to play, there is no reason why
1t shouldn't be played as well as posi-
bic with the best instruction to be OBJ
tained for the money that can be
afforded
Looking at the Heavies
I 932 ought to be a much more inter
i esting fstic year, as far as the
heavyweights are concerned, than
1881 has been.
For one thing schmeling starts out
as much better looking fighter than
he seemed to be year ago after the
Sharkey merry-go-round. In the sec
ond place, the improvement OF such
young stars as Ernie Schaaf and King
LevinSky will add more color to the
challenging side, with the chance that
Jack DempSey's first formal appearance
will also add a blotch OF color and a
flow of action
King Levinsky did not have to be a
world beater to win from Tommy
Loughran. but he had to be good He
had to be good to reach the crafty
Loughran often enough to drop him 10
the floor three times in 10 rounds, with
the promise of still greater damage In
a 15-round scrap. He is one Of those
rare fighters who is willing to fight.
willing to take chance and punch.
Levinsky and Schaaf should be two
pf the main headliners for the new sea-
son, and there also Is an opening for
Retzlaff, another puncher, with the
experience he has picked up.
So far as the leading heavyweights
are concerned, Schmeling and Sharkey
are still the pair who offer the best
chance for good gate. This stands in
spite Of Sharkey's long span Of disap-
pointing ring. wars. Whether they will
ever meet is another matter, in view OF
the mystic mazes now surrounding the
game. Schaaf seems to be the farthest
advanced Of the younger set, with the
weight, skill, durability and experience
needed for a real test against the best
in the game
Not So Much.
LOOT BALL isn't as commercialized
L as many seemed to think it was
There has been big drop in gate
receipts, and as a result many athletic
associations are chopping down expen-
dltures along all lines Those who fig
ured that foot ball receipts were much
TOO large are now watching a retrench-
ment In base ball, basket ball and track
programs. and with this a retrench-
ment in intramural sport.
For, after ALL who is going to furnish
the equipment needed for 5000 or 5000
students seeking other recreation apart
rom foot ball? Is it to come from those
denouncing foot ball receipts? You
can make your Cwn guess, and YOU
need no vivid imagination to turn out
the answer
Mass sport has been the cry for man,
years-Sport and Fairgrounds for every
SIuuenL: VINO is 10 pay Tor all this IL
loot ball receipts are cut down to any
great extent? Who is to keep up the
playing fields and pay for the needed
equipment-for golf, tennis, crew, base
ball, basket ball, track, lacrosse, hockey.
etc? Who Is to reach into the atrno-
sphere and draw down the gold?
More than few have suddenly dis
covered that you can't walk In oppo-
site directions at the same time Foot
ball receipts are off, and that also
means there will be fewer student,
playing other games this Winter anc
Spring. And no one has proved We;
that this in turn will mean more atten-
tion to classroom work.
But If foot ball was overcommercial-
lied, the economic tangle has dcne
SWifter and a more complete Job 0
deflation than all the faculties In tnt
world could accomplish.
| Copyright, 1891, by the North Ameri.s.