Evening star., 1932-11-29
RUGGED STRENGTH
IS TELLING FACTOR
Means More Than Coaching
to Big Team That Easily
Subdued Stanford.
BY n. C. BYRD.

M AN-POWERl Since the time
I'M when Tartar hordes over
IV i ram Asia and left an i'm
print that remains to this
day, that has been the answer to
many a struggle of tribe against
tribe and nation against nation.
And even now, whether 1t be in
annexing vast domain that once
fell under sway of the Great Khan
or in play wi ere one small group
is hurled against another small
group, that answer is little
changed.
Today, when two groups of IL men
meet on a barred field in what Is
called foot ball game, the answer is
| about the same. It usually is man.
power that decides the issue. Six
| times, for instance, Stanford teams
came out of the West to meet the East
and six times Stanford man-power was
too great a handicap to be overcome.
Saturday the issue was turned.
1t was Pittsburgh that had the men
to sustain all that Stanford could throw
against it, and finally triumph. And so
1t was In New York.
Brilliant as had been its successes.
Army fell before the constant ham,
mering of Notre Danes tried shock
troops and fresh reserves fully as weIl
trained and hardy. Generalship. tac-
| tics, astute maneuvers count for little
when confronted with consistently over
| Whelming force.
Out on the Pacific Coast, 50 r,lrnor
mas It, Southern California owes its long
line OF victories largely to its army Of
brilliant athletes. 1t has good COACH
ing, 1t is true, but no eleven without su-
per1or man-power could year after year
attain such consistent success as have
the Trojans
And. with all due respect for COACH
ing and the qualities of leadership or
driving ability that coaches must have.
man power seems to be the chief an.
SWer to success on the gridiron. With
out their very real superiority in man.
power Alabama, Auburn and Tennessea
would not now be dominating Southern
foot ball.
To the coach should go praise, YES, bs,t
without the men the coach would =
helpless.
CATURDAY afternoon I sat In ths
~ press section at the Pitt Stadium
| and watched the University of Pitts.
Durgh beat Stanford. And In no other
| game has there been given a better ex.
emplification Of what nnan-power
means on foot ball field. After see.
Ing that contest It Is not dificult 10
understand how Pitt has gone through
I an undefeated season.
Few times indeed has any school had
en- gr1diron eleven men as capable as
those who represented Pitt against
STANFORD. Big, strong, rugged and fast.
! they met and turned back with come
| parative ease an attack that combined
power and deception.
just how powerful an array Pitt had
in its line may be realized when it d
stated that throughout the Stanford
game 1t used only six men, with the
center and fullback, as virtually its only
support, playing well back.
Despite this six-man line, with its
loose support, Stanford never made q
first down by rushing, and only occa-
Sionany did 1t gain even yard or two.
Just how helpless the Stanford attack
was against Pitts great line can never
be known to anybody except those that
saw.
In this day of high-power attacks,
especially such as Warner is expected
to develop, such defense as Pitt
showed seems almost impossible of at
tainment.
CTANFoRD's defense could not stop
~ Pitts attack. The = Westerners
never were able to prevent the Pitt
backs breaking through for spasmodio
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