The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-26
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK. Oct. %. = What
chance has any of the top
ranking football teams got to go
through the season without spread
ing its classic features in the mire of
defeat?
This question came up before the
board at the usual mid week meet
ing to the Fifty-Yard Line Quarter
Backs Association today and the
answer was both pro and con, yes
and no and how's tricks, neighbor?
To begin 1t doesn't necessarily follow
tnat Just because team goes through the
season without being bowed over That It
~ tne pest IN the land. More than likely
~ Is merely tops In its own back yard
30 iar nung are the frontiers Of high
powered football these days that only an
unusual array Of circumstances can ever
cast any team legitimately in the role Of
national champion following a limited
senedule OF eight or ten games.
NO one team ever meets all the other
good teams, due not only to normal
schedule difficulties but to the INEVITABLE
surprises the unfolding Of each new season
rated team in OCTOBER may develop
tremendous power and advance to the
king row by November.
Admittedly, 1t is simple enough to
arrange fool-proof schedule. All that is
necessary IS the same quaint formula en-
pioyed by managers in rigging up an i'm
presslye list Of knockouts for phoney
heavyweight. You simply do not schedule
any team you can't beat
Stiil l doubt that this practice is wide
spread IN football. There is little nourish-
ment in steady sucker diet and even the
most cagey coach is not unwilling TO take
= gamblers chance once in while After
an, ne might winl So, generally speaking
a team that goes through the season
unoeaten merits few cheers
n
r ET'S take a look at the eastern
IL leaders. The picture is not
clearly defined. For all anybody
knows to the contrary, Colgate
might be the best team in this part
OF the country. True, the Red
Raiders have met only one major
opponent-New York university
but their winning performance be-
spoke great power and skill.
What chance has Colgate got to 20
through the season unbeaten? Ofhand
should say a very good chance. Their
TOUR remaining foes are Penn State
MissisSppi college Syracuse and Brown.
other three scarcely figure to score
colgate is only one of several unbeaten.
u sdI teams IN the east; Others in the
same classification are Columbia, Harvard
HOLY Cross, Brown and Pennsylvania
Most OF these face a sterner test the rest
o. the way than does Colgate. Columbia,
Ior instance. not only has Brown left,
but Cornell as we'll
Now say both Colgate and Columbia fin
lsn the season unbeaten. which would you
can the superior? 1 should give the hon
ors to Columbia on the ground that Lou
iLittle,s young men had to fight harder
Even so, that would not in any way
settle the question Of superiority in the
east provided one or two Of the other
teams also managed to keep their records
spotless. Columbia by no means has had
the most difficult schedule. Consider Penn
state and Cornell I am sure even Little
WI agree that is not exactly an easy
And how about dear old Harvard. with
Yale7 BY Nov 10 Yale will be ball
Including. the Dartmouth game which is
out OF the way. Harvard has four hard
gsmes in row--,ive. If We are to string
AGAINST the Crimson. How MANY shilings
you'd you care to wager that Harvard
Rec Keeps up It's ,uunbeaten pace? I counsel
Nor can anyone accuse Brown Of going
to any excessive length to nick on the
to do to finish with a clean slate is heat
Harvard. Holy Cross. Columbia and Col
gate On successive SATURDAY. afternoons. If
ten in the betting temples.
DUT Just between you and me
I'D (and if you can get Ruth Et-
ting in on it, too, so much the bet
teri, think that in the matter of
hard schedules, Pittsburgh is so far
out in front in the east that there
isn't any omparison-unless you
care for an odious one, and I hope
you do not. I'd rather vote for
Foster myself.
The Pittsburgh schedule calls for ten
games and includes such menacing foes as
Army, Ohio State. Notre Dame. Pennsyl-
vania. Nebraska and Stanford. 1 think
the schedule is too long and too tough
for college team. 1t is redoent of box
office ambitions. and is inconsiderate of
the immaturity of youth.
But in any event there it is-a ire
mendous thing Pittsburgh was held even
in a scoreless game with Ohio State
last Saturday a touchdown sortie failing
on the one-yard line.
What If Pittsburgh should in some fan
tastic manner. succeed in winning all its
remaining games?
Well. IL you refused to accept it as the
best team in the east-no matter what
Harvard Colgate. Columbia Pennsylvania
and the rest did-vou would be a very
relentless critic. If indeed YOU would not