The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
TALKING
IT OVER
By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-For the
In first time since Helen Twelve
trees was a shrub. the east finds it.
self dominating the football scene
this week, what with:
.tA Brown meeting Colgate;
OBJ Notre Dame meeting Army
Co Pittsburgh meeting Stanford.
An added note Of interest is that
one Of these teams may be picked to
go to the wide open spaces of Holly
wood. where men are very strange,
indeed, to meet Southern California
in the annual Rose bowl game.
Which one will it be?
Before going into that ought to tell
you that there Is very strong move on
to put Michigan in the spot The move
started some weeks ago on the west coast
spread to the middle west and has now
hit the big town. In fact IL practically
amounts 70 a national alumni move on the
Michigan won the undisputed champion
ship OF the Big Ten. In addition. the
Michigan State-a team that later showed
Fordham how TO play football They have
been beaten only once in the last thirty
BY few major teams.
TEXANS don't automatically quail
Il ify for the Rose Bowl game.
They are invited. Some decline the
invitations, because of faculty dis
approval. No team has been invit-
ed so far this season. There is a
feeling that Michigan will accept If
invited, though in the past such in
vitations have been frowned upon
by the Big Ten folks.
Michigan men around here tell me
Hurry Up Yost. the athletic director; IS IN
favor of the game SO are Harry Kipke
the coach. and also the players. Ihe cam
mas not vet broken training altogether
Faculty representatives Of the Big Ten
have the. last say on the matter They
Alger represents Michigan on this board,
and the tip is that he will vote Yes"
So the Rose bowl nomination may not not
For some reason, the southern teams did
not seem to be getting tumble this year.
5 auburn Is nnaeteatee It's Teeora Tbs shoR Ross
bowl victim Of year ago
Centenary. disclosing an amazing up
best team in the south Maybe the boys
need press agent down there
A T any rate, the situation is in
L n teresting. My own idea is that
an emphatic victory by either
Brown or Colgate will form the
final answer. There has been
tendency to belittle these two
teams, Colgate because of its push
over schedule and Brown because
Of its long string of narrow escapes.
III this connection remember sitting
in al gathering OF experts the night be
fore Tunney fought Dempsey at Phil
adelphia. The sentiment was preponder-
antly pro-Dempsey. There was an cx-
tended recital Of Tunneys deficiencies. He
couldn't hit, he was slow, he didn't like
EN- downstairs. In short, he was bum.
'All right piped up the only pro-
Tuney man Mn in the room, tell me who
That was a hard one to answer, be-
cause no one had ever beaten him except
Greb who butted him blind between the
eyes. Similarly. Colgate has done all that
the schedule demanded, and Brown has
gone on from Saturday to Saturday win
ming sometimes by five points, sometimes
by three points. sometimes by one point.
but still winning. The boys must have
something
HOW about Pittsburgh? Are you
L i going to count team like the
Panthers out just because they were
held even in two games? How about
their schedule? Can you name any
other team in football that at
tempted to take West Virginia,
Duquesne, Army, Ohio State, Notre
Dame, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Car
negie Tech and Stanford in a row?
The answer is you can not and as
I have said before, the 1882 Pitts
burgh schedule is a moral affront to
the traditions of the university and
what is probably more important in
a material sense, a cruel imposition
on the young men who were asked
to see it through. 1t would be a
tough schedule for the Green Bay
Packers