The Washington times., 1935-11-18

I, expected results De la10 eno u
to there and back again.
If all the teams that were
this thing we call football wo
and we would go our respectiV
an IT told you So' mien.
But the upSets!
: They are the thing!
They keep us examining and
scrutinizing the teams from week
+ to week, prying and probing into
, the bloomin' contraptionS, trying
to see If way can't be figured
out to make them work according
to what on the surface seems to
q be the correct manner.
Comes a new Saturday and a
new deal, and we all think we've
got the situation figured out fresh.
Then the referees whistle blows
and those surefire choices explode
right in our faces.
AS say-that Is the provoking.
enticing, irresistible thing in foot
bali which makes the red-blooded
guys and dolls WOO it from Satur-
day to Saturday eternally coming
back for more-spills.
The game is fraught with a lot
Of little, invisible magnets, far be-
neatl the surface, which wreck the
best laid plans of coaches and
make the experts look like Simians.
Alumni Speak Out
The Washington chapter of the
Catholic University of America has
come out over the signature of it's
president, Joseph C. Suraci,
strongly in favor Of the proposed
Community Chest football game
between Catholic University and
George Washington University.
Says Suraci:
II have discussed this game
with a great many members of
my organization and man to man,
q without an exception, they have
voiced their sentiment for such
q game to be held for such a pur-
pose"
Radio Joe" kaufman, who this
year, as in previous years, has fos-
tered the Community Chest pub
1city, writes urging that every
Washington newspaper support
the proposition.
Since the main issue regarding
q c. U.-G. w. game seems to
center around the alienation of
local misery. a problem which is
distinctly Washington's own, do
not see how the city'S colleges with
a means Of doing their bit by the
simple addition Of another game
to their schedule, can, with humil-
1ty, turn a deaf ear.
Little Colleges Overlooked
My more initiated brethren are
prone to overlook the smaller col
1egeS in making their All-Ameri-
ca selections, according to a me-
morandum which comes from
Lewis C. Frank, jr., of American
University and I don't know but
that I am in accord with his
, views.
Poking around the gridirons
from Saturday to Saturday one
sees no few very flaShy individual
performers hidden away on OBJ
Scure colleges, and about the best
any of these can hope for IS one
Of the so or go places in the
honorable mention SUNNI ary
which appears in the form of
addenda to most of the ALL
America selections.
My friend Frank brings out a
point Of annual fall selecting hys-
terra which has needed a chal-
lenger for many years, in my be-
lief.
BaSking In q Shadow
The minor colleges, quite SEN
Sibly playing within their own
sphere and in the remote Stadia
Of the land, are completely lost
when the learned selectorS sharpen
their pencils to signal out the
eleven men who shall be exalted
by All-America mention.
The Slippery Rocks, st. Bona.
venture Teachers, Emery and
Henrys, ETC., must of necessity
bask in the shadow of their big
ger and more flourishing brethren,
because their schedules are not
pretentiouS. They play for the
fun Of the game? In such col.
legeS football still belongs largely
to the students. High-powered com
mercialism, proselyting and other
modern evils of the game have not
yet spoiled the game, as it was
originally meant to be played,
among these little fellows.
Meanwhile, it should be simple
to classify football teams into three
divisions, A. B and c, for instance,
ard 1ainL A q and q AL A Atanna.inn