The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-04
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-There still
4 ' are flock of unbeaten teams
out there, partner. There won't be
quite so many by the time twilight
settles over the playing fields Satur-
day night. And there Will be even
fewer a week hence.
This is one of those things which
Sherlock Holmes would characterize
as elemental. The boys stay in
there swinging until they just natnr-
ally knock one another off. And
tnat is as it should be.
Nothing is so provocative OF mad. ira
unoeaten football team. and the intensity
grows IN proportion 10 the NUMBER oil IN
beaten teams that happen TO be around
L doesn't make any difference e if It is
lltle BackWash university down in Gurgle-
Gurgle. Texas a team that PLAYED only
one game all season ana that with the
scrubs, there viii always be somebody
around ready to prove by comparative
mat little Backwash would have whipped
smoot-Hawley tariff or the Australian
!. don't know what it is but men who
vii maintain fine mental calm about
stany Blow SuP 2ebt you n fsn meatlon me
boiler when thew start debating football
nope TINS isn't one OF the phases Of
served.
A LII week I have been getting
IA letters from enthusiastic Will
liams followers in Pittsburgh af-
fectionately depicting me as an egg,
heel, half-~it and chump 1t
seems that I was unfair to the Pitts
burgh team in my comments on its
victory over Metre Dame.
pointed out that Pittsburgh was lucky
70 beat Army and that II could not score
been beaten. IA TO 0, by Michigan. and
tied by Indiana. I contended In view of
the5e, facts that Notre Dame was an over
rated team and that therefore Pittsburgh
had not exactly performed the eighth won
der Of the world in winning.
Wen, ~ seems that was wrong. My
correspondents are firmly convinced that
Pittsburgh did perform the eighth wonder
of the world that day.
Moreover. they insist that Pittsburgh is
but one of the greatest teams of all time.
And not only that. but before the sea-
are talking about will be singing the
praises of Jock Sutherlands team from
one end OF the coast to the other" Sounds
so you see what happens to you when
you get yourself involved in a football con-
troyersy. Keep away from them. They
are more poisonous than blondes
anyway; wasn't trying to belittle Pitts
burgh. The fact is had previously indi-
GATED that Pittsburgh was attempting the
heaviest schedule of any college team in
the country; commenting in my character
lslcally daring manner that II the team
beaten It would certainly be a remarkable
performance
Ny comments on last last weeks SaSiua game were
designed to show that Notre Dame was
lacking IN certain elements of super
greatness. All | said was that it was
turned back by a team that Just did beat
Army and couldn't score on Ohio State.
| didn,t think this was belittling Maybe
1 should nave concentrated on the Waner
boys and let it go at that
n
IF Pittsburgh is the greatest team
Il in the country, what is the proper
diplomacy to use in chewing the fat
with Slip Madigan, who is in town
with his st. Marys team?
Slip Madigan intimateS that the
Saints are the greatest team in the
country. They go against Fordham
Saturday, at which time the eastern
jurors will be privileged to judge for
themselves.
The Saints are unbeaten up to now
California tied them IL to 10. This was
a same the Saints were supposed to win
without half irving Instead they almost
loss it that way. 1t probably was, an
score against Santa Clara and the Saints
took the Jesuits over IA to 10. coming from
behind to win.
The Saints have a way of coming from
behind that is extraordinary They've won
most Of their big games in the last several
wears BY late rallies. Madigan has an
explanation for this. Madigan usually has
an explanation for everything In fact
he was an all-America explainer in his
day
"Our BOYS are country BOYS" explains
Madigan. our campus is up in the hills
You writer's say we are from Oakland
That isn't so. We are q half days horse
back ride from Oakland. We hang out in
the village of Moraga in Moraga Valley
And there isn't much else in the village
but our university But it's lovely place
quiet healthy home like"
Madigan was reminded that nobody in
his audience wanted to buy any Cali
fornia real estate.
well sir, when our bows come to town
and play in the CITY before big crowds
as they do when they visit San Francisco
and New York, they get embarrassed
like You know how country bows are
when they meet city bows They are kind
of backward. That's the way our boys
are They don't play much. football at the
start but they manage to do all right be-
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