The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-22
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-word
4 Y from the far west is that Pop
Warner has a football team at
Stanford this year and that any
team that beats him will have to
be good.
Today, Pop Warmers team goes
against Southern California in
what probably is the country's
stand out game of the day and the
betting favors him for the first time
in several years.
You see, Pop Warner has not
been having things all his own way
of late, so when you hear that his
team is picked to win over South
ern California, national champions
a year ago. it is significant.
Mostly. / think it is significant Of the
fact that Pop warner has hned himself
up some football PLAYERS. 50 many myths
that people had Begin to believe he could
win without football PLAYERS.
In a way. l think Pop Warner con-
tributed TO these myths. At any rate,
DO not recall that ne did anything to ais
courage them. / am referring. OF course,
TO those histories Of the game which depict
and the last word
/ believe the figures show that it has
been six years years snse POP Wne
a long time between snake dances. with
All his black magic and Sparkling genius
SO the conclusion must be accepted. no
matter how reluctantly, that Pop warner
Is lust another football coach. Legends
often grow out Of Longevity. 4 similar l,Is
example was Cornelius McGillicuddy; When
he was winning championships IN the pre-
war days he was looked upon as mlrcIe
worker. He not only could lead players
but ne could make them. All ne neeoeo
was a sufficient number OF suits 10 20
This was idiotic. Of course. and as soon
as McGillicuddvs stars moved 70 otnei
cities his team did nose o I've t aers car,
League. To climb back where he hao been
before McGillicuddy tried out 800 players
And in between times. managers YOU never
heard Of we're winning world series honors
n n
WET I suppose it is possible tc
i have the players, in football OF
baseball, and still not win. After
all you can not go out there and dc
their thinking for them. l recall
couple of years ago when Southern
California beat Stanford, Al to IL
Pop Warner was quoted as saying
THE defeat didn't surprise me
This years team is the dumbest
ever coached-and l have coached
lot Of dumb ones"
AS everybody knows Pop Warner i
the originator of the Warner system rms
is an intricate system involving A. b. anc
C. formations and there are the wing:
BACK anC
all that sort of thing.
If the fat headed sophomores can't gel
it,, is It fair to blame r the eoach2 ~
college team and my coach came out IN
the newspapers and called me hall WI
well what If it would be flat thd ~
It was the last thing ever did for my my
spend the rest of the season peggine
grown up tomatoes at him from the So
I never heard John J. McGraw publicly
arraign one of his ball players for making
a boner And Joseph Biceps Jacobs went
far out of his way to Justify the dumbest
fight ever made by a fighter 1gEn when Max
EsP1TE the fact that the odds
Dare against him, Howard Jones
who coaches the Southern Cali
fornia team, does not seem to be
taking the issue with his custom
airy seriousness.
To those who are familiar with
3 the Jones technic, this is bewilder-
ing. I mean to ask where are the
detectives?
On the eve of a major contest, Jones
has been known to countenance the as
signing of detectives to the whereabouts OF
his players To see that nobody harms
themp Well. not exactly. You see you
never can tell about your players
s;h-h-h-h They may even give your
p. One Of the Southern California players
F.. last year happened to admit an admira-
3 ton for the way football was played al
= Notre Dame. This provoked dark sus-
picions. Was this fellow a traitor? To be
sure that he wasn't the coaching staff had
him tailed by detective.
AS I remember the details, the young
man was kept prisoner as a safeguard
against betrayal to Notre Dame.
l have had my 2 cents say about this
charming little incident before. Some one
informed me 1t was just campus prank
Nevertheless, the parents of the boy de-
manded an apology from the university
president, which 1 believe was forthcom-
ing. l don't recall ever seeing Jones ex-
. PLANTATION of the affair. Possibly these
things are beneath the dignity of a great
college coach