The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-19

you have to travel seven miles
out from the heart of Phila-
delphia, at the end Of the car
line, where he goes through the
PAGES in what a New York Times
reporter describes as "a modest red
brick stadium hidden away"
He's supposed to be at peace with
the world and happy in his new
environment. That's always the
story-for the press. Theresa bour-
geois tradition that when taking 1t
on the chin the manly thing to do
is to bear it and grin. Personally,
when we feel that way we much
prefer to let go of our emotions and
weep.
This summer, way out in Des
Moines, Iowa, guzzled milk around
q table well into the wee hours OF
one morning with two former major
league baseball players who are now
In the Glass B minors and still slip
ping. Nav, they didn't mind a bit.
Until about the tenth glass when
they began to reveal that inner sore
ness of heart which was burning
them to the quick. Just as industry
throws out its workers when they
are no longer able to show profits
for the boss, so do the bourgeois
sports cast into limbo their hired
hands who no longer can produce. "
At the point when they cease drag
ging the cash customers through the
turnstiles they're cast aside like an
old shoe.
THIS man Warner was the noblest
1 Roman of them all. There hasn't
been another teacher of fundamen-
tails like him in the game. His teams
always displayed a brand OF tackling
and blocking that has been un-
equaled in the annals of the sport.
Others more powerful physically may
have beaten them. but Pops teams
always put on smooth performance
and no one ever saw them play rag
gedly. His single and double wing
back offensive formations virtually
revolutionized the game. These were
stigmatized originally by opponents
as suited only to q power attack
But the smart alecs soon began to
rub their eyes in arnazement while
their rllmpS were being pounded
against their own goal posts by per-
fectly executed lateral passes, for
wards, cut-backs, reverses, intricate
spinner plays, and everything else
known to the game, with plenty that
wasn't previously know to boot. And
all executed with smooth-as- silk
finesse.
y And so Pop moved up the ladder
fast. First aehieving national re-
nown with the Carlisle Indians 8
quarter of century ago, he moved
on to Pitt and thence to the tor
at Stanford.
Then something went wrong with
the scouting system at the west coast
Possibly that was Pops fault al
right. He was too big guy to &c
in for this Shiny sort of stuff with
his real heart and soul, and his ma
terial began to peter out. The ire
mendous power being assembled ir
the meanwhile at Southern Califor-
MIA, Stanford's chief rival, was 9
little too overwhelming and Howard
Jones Trojans began to take War.
ner over the JUMPS. The latter''
sound strategy ard perfected tech
nique was toppled owe. by superior
man power. Stanford wasn't pack
ing upwards of 10000 into it's classic
stadium Cat three and four dollars G
head with losing teams. SO Por
was sent looking for another job
Which is why he find himself at the
other side of the continent this :, :
holding forth at puny Temple Uni
versity.
WHILE Warner was going into de-
" cline, that other sage Of South
Bend, Ind, Knute Rochne (who ones
assured an audience of football
coaches into which I chiseled my way
that in Russia they shoot anybody
who's a success, was finding hi.
name flashed across the skies in 9
blaze Of glory. There had previously
been lean years at Notre Dame fol.
lowing an initial period of outstand.
ing success achieved through a per-