The Washington times., 1937-11-12
Pitt Coach
Enjoys Play,
Not Victory
MEETS NEBRASKA
By RAYMOND WILCOvE

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12.-Tht
dentist who became one Of the
nations foremost college football
coaches hoped today to start of
a second century of football vic
tories at his present post with g
win tomorrow over the might Corn
huskerS of Nebraska.
But, he said, more valuable than
the 100 victories he has amaSseo
at his present post. more than the
achievement of IA years of fame
and glory at his alma mater, is
the opportunity it has given him
to mold the character of the boys
under him.
For to DR.. John Balm Sutherland
doctor of dental surgery, better
known to football fans the nation
over as Jock Sutherland, coach OF
Pitts Golden PantherS, that spells
"the romance of football"
GIVES INTERVIEW
In an exclusive interview with
international News Service, DR..
Sutherland confessed:
II don't care what the papers
and sports writer's say about me,
about what I've done or what I
haven't done, about the glory
and the romance of football.
It's these kids who play under
me that count"
They're wonderful boys" he
said, "all of them. It's working
with them that has made foot
ball mean so much to me. It's
seeing the new squads come in.
tall gangling fellows-some
know so little about football
they don't even know how to
run-and seeing them turn out
all-AmericanS before the season
ends.
Games? Winning games,
losing games; there's not much
difference. There's little diff
ference between a game won and
a game lost. It's the playing
that counts"
DECADE OF FOOTBALL
That, to Sutherland, spells the
philosophy of football. After
almost a decade of football coach
ing, IA years at Pitt and five
previous years at Lafayette, dur
ing which his teams chalked UP
1873 victories, lost 26, tied IA, and
journed four times to the Rose
Bowl, the playing and not the
winning of games is the important
thing to him.
Talking about Rose Bowl games,
with the present Pitt team today
in the forefront of the nations
major teams, Sutherland revealed,
with a laugh, how an invitation
to take him team to Pasadena was
once turned down.
"It was while I was coach
at Lafayette" he related. 1--WE
won the Eastern title in 1921
and received a query as to
whether we would care to repre-
sent the East in the Rose Bowl.
The Rose Bowl wasn't then what
it is today and the college
turned the offer down."
SCORES THE PROS
Sutherland expressed grave
doubts that pro football would ever
overtake college football in popu-
1arity. 81 don't think there's a
chance of it. Furthermore, the So
called appeal of more open
game supposed to be played by
pro team doesn't even exist in
my estimation"
He deplored the growth of gam
bling in connection with college
football games, but thought it was
decreasing. cts a problem that
will have to be met with increaS-
ing force" he said.
Completing almost a score of
years coaching football a
mighty long time" he admitted,
smiling-Sutherland has built up
an enviable and remarkable rec
ord.
He never played football until
he came to Pitt-in 1914, played
in the first college game he saw,
and in four year of competition
played in only one losing game.
His teams have not lost as many
as three games in one season since
1924, when he replaced Pop War.
ner as Pitt coach. He has lost
only two November games since
1924.