The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-08
PRO FOOTBALL
GIANTS prove
GRID MASTERY
All.Star COllegians Easily
Outplayed 100 Before
10000 Fans
BY LESLIE AVERY

UNITED Press STAN Correspondent
New York, Sept. 9. (UP)-Forget
all about that old question, can q
good college football team beat 9
tonnotch professional eleven" 1t
never should have been asked IN tne
first place. $50.
sional champions OF the Nationai
league. answered the query once ana
for ali when htey handed Pitts
crack 1888 varsity, aided by the PICK
Of the football crop from other
eastern schools, q 100 whacking IN
fine New York Herald Tribunes
fourth annual charity game at the
Polo grounds last night.
The score, however, does not begin
To tell the story of the pros SUPER.
ority. The Giants, playing smart
heads-up football, struck when the
iron was hot and let the All-Stars
rim all over the field-until they
cot within scoring distance. Then
they stiffened, took the pail on
downs or intercepted passes, anu
moved 1t back out Of danger.
Pro Air Raid
The Giants, with the best aerial
game in football, might have dou-
bled or trembled their points II they
had been pressed. They tried only
Ia passes and completed eight OF
them for So yards. Ed Danowski,
leading professional tosser, threw IL
OF them and seven were caught.
The All-Stars came in for plenty
~ criticism for not trying the air.
WAYS more often with Sid Luckman
back there throwing them, but they
attempted only -. Six were COM
pleted for 70 yards-20 more than
the pros gained via air. Four all
star masses were intercepted, how
ever, while none Of the Giants
were taken by the opposition. Inc
Collegians made more first downs,
10 to the Giants seven, but the
cash and carry athletes outgained
the All-Stars on the ground %
yards to 90.
Tuffy Leemans led the drive to
the Giants touchdown in the Sec
ond period. From the All-Stars' AZ
ward line, he sliced off left tackle,
cut back and raced into the open.
There wasn't a man between him
and the goal posts when he suddenly
became tangled up in his own feet
and stumbled on the IA, where he
was downed. Two plunges over the
line by Leemans Melted five, then
Tuffy bulleted q fiat pass right
across the middle to chuck Gelatka
for the score. Ken Strong place.
kicked the goal.
Strong made UP for missing by
inches a place-kick try from the
4i.yard line In the first period when
he was called from the sidelines for
another attempt in the third. Drop
ping back to the All-Stars' %, he
booted 1t through the middle to end
the scoring.
The All-Stars' most serious threat
came late In the second period when
Luckman's passing and Bob Mac
Ieod's running carried the ball 95
wards to the Giants five. A five-
yard off-sides penalty forced Luck
ma to trny q pass into the end zone
and Feets Barnum intercepted 1t.
Again in the fourth period, the ALL
stars moved within scoring dis
lance, but Dale Burnett grabbed one
Of Luckman's aerials intended for
Johnny Siegal, and the Giants
quickly moved. II back TO midfield
before the game ended.
II there was any starring" done
by the All-Stars, Luckman and
Macleod, the Dartmouth flash who
gained AZ yards In seven attempts,
were the only ones worth mention
ing, Danowski and LeemanS led
the Giant attack.
The quarter wasn't very old be-
fore the All Stars were In the pro-
fessionals territory. They got there
by going for O first down on fourth
down and needing conservative
two yards. This gave the customers
q thrill. II wasn't book football
but II was good spectacle football.
We like TO see the young brutes go
for those pay dirt inches instead Of
kicking on the last down, and we
suspect most Of the other innocent
bystanders do, too.
The All-Stars were In the process
of outplaying the lay-it-on-the-line
boys wnen Poole blocked kick
which gave the Giants the ball on
the All-Stars' 35-yard line. At this
point the Giants began TO fill the
air with passes and presently Strong
came In and attempted field goal
at an angle from the opposition Al
yard line. To the utter astonish-
ment OF almost everybody II failed.
Second quarter and our slogan Is
give no quarter and take none-the
Giants had been outplayed on the
ground In the first quarter; they
had got O break, II break Is the
word, on the blocked kick, and II IT
had not been for Danowskis pitch
ing they would have looked bad. On
the irst play Of the second quarter
Leemans suddenly upset the ball
game. On q cut back inside left
end he stormed 20 yards. Seconds
later he threw pass TO delatka
IL l. H..