The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

~ M3M Bowl people do not
- 80 pick the winner Of
Joe Williams today's game as the
opposing team fol
Stanford that there should no long
er be any Rose Bowl game. 1t has
not meant great deal up to now
and it would mean practically moth
ing without the winner of this
game.
To be perfectly frank, the Rose
Bowl game is a hometown promo
ton stunt. The man who thought
it up was and still is the first ALI
America publicity man. All the
Chamber of Commerce people in
other parts of the country have been
trying TO initiate him. This is why
you have the Sugar Bowl, the Or
ange Bowl, the Finger Bowl and the
What-have-you bowl.
Just Gaudy Spectacle
Obviously the New Years Day
play-off in Pasadena has become
cheapened because you and know
the game is nothing more than a
gaudy spectacle, but nobody can tell
you it isn't a national eye-popping
spectacle. l know that if I was a
good football player I would want to
play in it. So when places like
Minnesota ana Princeton indicate
they viii not play 1 am pretty sure
they are not talking for the football
players.
1t would be interesting to know,
also, what would happen if teams
like Minnesota and Princeton, just
to mention these two, asked the
Junior college huSkicS and the prep
school stars about their ethical
ideas with regard to a post-season
game that would carry them out TO
the coast for a holiday frolic and a
smashing football game. Would
this be too much football for you?
Would it be overemphaSis? You
know what the answer would be?
The players would want to go. And
why shouldn't they go? They've
won the right to 60 haven't they?
I do not look upon the Rose Bowl
game as overemphasis in football. l
see it as a spectacle, Chamber of
Commerce come-on and all that
sort of thing, but l still insist it is
a tribute to the players, and any
football team that can qualify for
an invitation should be thus hon
fhoJO
the men who have played through
a tough schedule are due an eXcit-
ing experience.
He'll Join ReformcrS
That's why I say the game today
between T. c. u and S. M. U. is
the one football game OF the
year. If the winner of this game is
not selected as the opponent of
Stanford in the Rose Bowl game, I
will join the rcformers. I will agree
insistently that there should be no
poStSeason games, that the game
has no purpose whatever.
AS they stand today these two
teams have done something few
teams have done They have come
up to the end of the season unde-
feated, united and they are both
Grade A teams. They are not teams
that achieved perfect records be-
cause they tried to schedule this
season with that idea in view. The
only reason they didn't have a
tougher schedule is because they
were turned down by supposedly
tougher teams.
A little while ago I mentioned
something about the chambers of
commerce people. They had a party
last night-the Fort Worth Cham
Der of Commerce-and it was lllumi-
mating to me. The coaching stats
of the two rival teams were at the
party. and several of them made
talks. What I got out of the talks
in the main was the spirit of flne
comradeship. the finest feeling of
man for man and team for team.
They Have No Secrets
Perhaps I was impressed because
we do not get that to any extent in
the East. Or it may be that I do
not get around enough. At any rate
seldom see two coaching stats
set together on the eve of a big
game-anG trade chit chat. l don't
think I am wrong. Down here the
coaches are slightly different. There
is more mformality among them.
They have no grave secrets. They
seem to acknowledge that every
body knows football in a general
sense.
AT this aforementioned party were
the two head coaches of this foot
ball game, Dutch Meyer Of T. c. U.
and Matty Bell of S. NJ. u. They
both made talks. They didn't tell
anybody anything startling, but at
the same time it was clear they felt
everybody at the table knew quite a
bit about their ball clubs.
More than that, they seemed a
little embarrassed that the news
paper men didn't ask them some
pertinent questions. 1t was obvious
that football is their business and
the only interest they had in the
party was football. 1t may be that
there were certain plays neither
would reveal under any circum-
stances, but their whole attitude
was that this is just another ball
game and you guys know as much
about it as we do"