Evening star., 1936-11-11
BY JOHN LARDNER.

CCATTERED notes on the reverse
side Of a foot ball writer's laun-
dry slip:
- Coaches who have seen him
say that Oze Simmons, Iowa's famous
brunette, is the greatest back now
doing business In college foot ball. (.
And most of the all-Amerfca pickers,
solicited or otherwise. are building
their backfields around him :.
With a line like Fordham's and block
ers like Minnesota's, Ozzie would score
1000, 900 points week, at conserva-
tive estimate.
Other all-America candidates in the
backfeld department are Monk Meyer
of Army, Ace Parker OF Duke. Byron
Haines of Washington, Andy Uram OF
Minnesota, Don Heap Of Northwest
ern, Buzz Buivid of Marquette, Nanny
Gomez Of Santa Clara, Isbell OF Pur-
due and Francis and Cardwell OF Me-
braska And by way of a purely
personal nomination, Sneed Schmidt
of Navy .. Midshipman Schmidt, in
cidentally, can play any musical in
strument from a comb to an oboe.
Minnesota Still Rated Best.
CYNICAL blokes tell me that Mime
~ sofa still is the best ball club in
the country by more than little {.
But that's not the kind of song I'd
like to be caught singing around
Evanston, Ill.
Ed Franco of Fordham Is the
best tackle I've seen all year.
Wojciehowicz of the same team Is
the best center :. Palau OF the very
same team is the best blocking back.
And, still harping on Fordham,
if the Rams proceed through the rest
Of their tough schedule undefeated,
they'll almost certainly be asked to
the Rose Bowl. not because they're the
country's leading club, but because the
Coast Tycoons want very much 10
have them out there That bowl
situation will stir up lot OF trouble
between now and New Year day .
Certain clubs in the South and Mid
west will feel, and rightly, that their
claims have been given the chill.
HARvARD'S draw with Princeton
IL caused more unfeigned mirth and
Joy in Ivy League circles than any
development since Columbia hung the
bee on Stanford.
The Yale grads are saying,
''Thatu teach those birds not
to be 50 uppity."
But I have hunch, OF the sneak
ing variety, that Harvard's tie will
work Yale'S ruin, because the Prince
tons and their boss will be very irked
and spoiling for slaughter when they
meet up with Eli The Cornell
team, 100 per cent sophomore, threat
ems to be the best in the East two
years from now Just before COL
gate stole that duke from Army the
celebrated Mr.. Red eagle remarked
that the KaydetS were cinch to 60
through undefeated Reds en-
barrassment is shared by military men
everywhere Brigadier generals
are In hiding from Staten Island to
Singapore.
The latest coach to be threat
ened with the guillotine is
Chick Meehan, who should be
used to 1t by now.
Lou Little denies in capital letters
that he will shift from Columbia
to Pennsylvania and, besides, Harvey
Harman's stock Is rising, now that
Penn has begun to realize her po-
tentialities The great Goldberg
is no Grange as yet. but he may
come close to it before he's through,
because he runs the ball by instinct
and his instinct is good One
thing against Goldie, he's stolen a
lot of headlines from his colleague,
Bobby La Rue, a really fine back .
Babe Ruth has become a rabid
Fordham fan Greasy Neale. now
assisting Pond at Yale, used to at
tribute his coaching success to the
power of prayer But the joker
Is that Greasy, an old-time Cincinnati
ball player. used to attribute the Reds
victory in the world series of 1919 to