The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-31

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BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Oct. s1.-Of all
IN sports. professional or other
wise, think football is the least
amenable to reason. Or should l
" to expert reason?
do not mean to spool the ex-
Its. Exporting in any line is a
tough racket. You will note that
even the theatrical experts do not
always bat 1000 per cent.
Why bring them in? Well, the
theatrical experts do their predict
ing AFTER the show, not BEFORE.
And yet
Football is probably the most excessive
~ exported Of all sports. Anybody can be
football expert and practically every
body is. There Is one particular set that
processes 10 be more expert than any
other set-and that is the professional
coach who writes tor the. newspapers.
. Certainly by now everybody must know
there guessing and trying to do the best
they can with tongue. in cheek.
! There were lot Of big games over the
week end. How many Of these games did
the super experts pick correctly? I
haven't made a thorough cheek Of all the
'super experts, but did any Of them pick
+. l. a. land III bet that nine out OF ten
football fans do not even know that u G.
l.. A. means the University Of California
OF Los Angeles) TO beat Pop Warmers
Don't let me stop with those two games
: ---or upSets. as they are called when they
don't happen to harmonic with the adj
vance dope. How about Boston college
beating Fordham? Didn't read couple
great football players at Fordham that
Major Frank Cavanaugh couldn't get them
all on one team-that he had to build two
nrst teams? Was this just little free
and loose ballyhoo?
A ND how about Harvard? Didn't
1 \ Eddie Casey tell the Harvard
Club in front of my own very ears
two weeks ago that he had team
that would make trouble for any
body in the east, or words to that
general effect? Eddie did and 1
thought it was very courageous of
him to say as much, considering
how these professional coaches like
to cry in their soup
/ remember saying TO Eddie "You GER
tainly put yourself on the spot tonight
You know what that speech means don't
you-it means you gotta win all your
a BIT dumb but t' I Really h have good ood
team, and it viii take great team to
The Red Shirts didn't get any closer to
the Brown goal than the 33-yard line.
Inc super experts picked Harvard to win
by two touchdowns. AS the game was
played Caseys men were never in it. They
on the sidelines.
Brown has beaten both Yale and Har-
vard; NO team has more difficult sched-
.lnte 70 nnlsh, what with Holy Cross, Co
'llmbia and Colgate coming, in a. row
Brown is unbeaten up to date. If the
young men from Providence can keep bat
ting LOCO per cent they are going to
have hay e - plenty to say about the eastern
super-super experts tip? They are going
to be knocked off next Saturday, so help
me. Gregory P. Choynski.
There were a number of other games
the high pressure experts failed to call the
turn on last Saturday. qll admit you
but they ought to turn in a fair per-
centage of winners in the tough games
eelther that, or come right out and con-
less that they are merely guessing like
A S say there were other games
"A that didn't turn out strictly
according to the way the high
priests told us they would, but none
of these surprises shocked the boys
and girls around the country quite
as much as did the Notre Dame
Pittsburgh result.
Now, there was one game that
just couldn't be lost. 1t was simply
a question of how many touchdowns
Notre Dame wanted to make.
saw the Panthers beat Army and I
IN fact, Thought they were s'S rather lucky
70 win, l remember the one thing I
liked liked particularly about them was that
touchdown to win they did it-and with
win-spirit. And there's a chance. Of
course that they played no harder to win
A week later these same Panthers went
against Ohio State. Now, even in Column
bus, the drug store quarter backs do not
claim that the Buckeyes are the best team
game from big time competitor since
the season started. Indiana held 'em TT
So did Wisconsin But the Panthers
= Meanwhile Notre Dame had beaten Has
kell 1870; Drake go, and Carnegie Teen.
Bend. Who said Hunk Anderson was not
another eKnute Rockne? In short, clear
pionship-and will somebody please take
time out and tell me what national foot
ball championship is?
Well YOU know what happened. The
team that Just did beat the Army and
could not even score against Ohio State
(which had previously been beaten by
Michigan l4-0) turned back Notre Dame
the wonder team. 1910.
All praise to the Panthers. But do
not let anybody say they beat wonder
team and in consequence they must be
five-Star special wonder team them
selves They beat a badly overrated team.
There is no such thing as Municipality
in anvbodv's football system. There is no
such thing as magic in any football formu-
Ia And there is no such thing as a
MONOPOLY of football spirit in young men
anywhere.