Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-03

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N1~MA1N ished memory. | am
all for 1t. and hope they do It, but | cant
be chairman Of It. | never was a chair.
man, or on the Exec" Committee OF
anything. In fact | am a mighty poor
group worker. | mean well but | just
don't do anything.
Another letter by the way Is laying In
a wash basket full waiting till next Fall.
Il think its Autumn when ! answer the
years letters). Well this old kid wanted
to know just what made me leave KEN.
per Military Academy In the Winter Of
SO. He SAP there is always quite a
controversy as to whether | jumped. or
was | showed. Well | cant remember
that far back. All | know Is that 1t was
a cold Winter. and old mar Ewings
Ranch on the Canadian River at Hig.
gins Texas wasent any too warm when
| dragged in there. Kemper was my last
school. Bill Corum. the crack A. |. sport.
ing writer comes from Boonville and
Kemper.
Do you know | used to play. me a
pretty good end, that is a substitute
end. | don't think they ever used me.
but the rough way they was playing in
those days, that dident hurt my feel
ings any. not getting in there. | played
what you might call a Wide End" |
would play out so far that the other Il
would be pretty well piled up before |
could possibly reach EN-.
think 1t was along about in our days
when the first thing come in the way
of a shift. 1t was called Tackles Back"
Tackles Right" or left, Guards Back"
They would move everybody over to
one side Of the line, that is everybody
that could remember the signals.
Kinder the way 1t was worked was the
fellow that was going to lead the inter
ference would just boiler for all the
help he could get, then everybody fell
in behind and pushed, so you see when
| picked this deep end job. | kinder fig.
ured that | would arrive a little late for
most of the festivities. So that's why to
this very day | don't carry any football
scars. or bruises. | was pretty fast as a
runner. Down in the old Indian Terri.
tory they used to call me Rabbit"
D,rt ~ Aar.o ~ no fnrt ntatnh
to get there in time to get into one Of
those m~assacres. Well in those days IL
| remember substitutes dident get in
games much anyhow. You either played
or you dident play. You wasent allowed
to run In and out like a bell hop.
Been seeing some of these profess
sional games. and as just downright
interest in real football. why they have
the colleges skinned a mile. These col
leges better start changing n rule
anyhow. and that is allow a pass from
anywhere to anybody anytime. Because
these Pros just make a whole audience
stand up and cheer when they start
passing that old schote wrapper around
They really toss that swine pulp. In
years to come you will see just as much
difference between college and Pros in
football as you see between them play
ing baseball and seeing the st Louis
Cardinals play II. You better open up
that game. Those bands and that
'narching On the field. and making let
ters with those cards wont get your
prices from the mob. You will want to
see a man do something with football
that is an expert.
And kicks after touchdowns? Whv
they just give EN- those by defaults.
They are like a three inch putt, they just