The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-10-26

Columbia Pointed
For Cornell By
Coach Lou Little
BY JOE WILLIAMS

big red team gets by Ohio State to-
day, there will be Columbia to think
about in a very serious way. They
meet in New York next Saturday,
anG don't get the impression that
Carl Snavely is taking this one for
granted. Carl got too big scare
from Uncle Lou Little Little last
year, when Cornell needed all the
breaks to nose in by 10 tot.
Let me refresh your memory
about developments that led to the
Columbia Cornell battle TO 1899. The
Lions had been beaten by Yale and
Princeton and tied by an unim-
preSsive army meleven. Columbia
had beaten only Virginia military
and was regarded as a cinch for a
Cornell team that had taken SYRIA
cuSe, Princeton, Penn State and
Ohio State.
However, when this man little sets
out to prepare for one particular
contest, there isn't a better coach in
all these United States. This is not
merely my own opinion. Louis par
tlcular talents were advertised to the
whole United States when Columbia
whipped Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
I never will forget hte VOW Little
made in his first season at Colum-
bia. He needed a little encourage
men,t, and he got none whatsoever
when his Lions were smeared all
over the Dartmouth gridiron. Jack
son CAMEL, then Hanover coach,
had no mercy on Little, who was
eager to make fair showing in his
new job, and let Dartmouth roll up
more than SO points.
That night, on the trip back to
New York, Lou said, If do Moth
ing lese next season, I am going to
make Cannell sorry he did that to
me. Sure, he had us licked, and lick
ed badly. But to run over us the way
he did was totally unnecessary"
You know what Columbia did to
Dartmouth the following fall at
Baker field. The highly favored
green was whipped soundly. 1t
boosted the superior man power.
But Columbia had Little, who had
set out to do a job.
Well Secuted
For weeks, Little has been work.
ing with Cornell as his objective.
And for weeks, Snavely has been
keeping a close watch on Uncle Lou
and his preparations. Columbia says
that Snavely has had no fewed than
four scouts reporting on its doingS
ever since the opener with Maine.
Explaining the lateral which beat
Georgia, before the football writer's
association in New York the other
dya, Little said, IF / am wrong on
my detail of this play, am sure
those Cornell scouts Snavely has
had on us for weeks will be ready
to correct me-"
They tell me that Little really
has not yet uncovered Ken Ger
mann, a sophomore back from Flor
al Park, L. I. Ken, who pitches
kicks and runs, gained something
like 100 yards against Maine, but
was injured. He did not show at all
against Dartmouth and Lou had no
intention of using him against
Georgia. But at the eleventh hour
Little decided that he could not
throw too great burden on Paul
Governali, another sophomore, who
had picked up bad charley horse
in the victory over Dartmouth.
However, Germann was kept un-
der wraps against the crackers, and
he won't be allowed to go all out no
matter how things go today against
Syracuse. Uncle Lou has something
special cooking for big red, and it
will be worth going many miles to
see.
Off Schedules?
1t is an open secret in football
circles that ale and Harvard once
more rae ready to throw Cornell and
Pennsylvania off their schedules.
The first hint came from Oggie Mil
Ter, the new graduate manager of
athletics at Yale, in his now famous
speech before the football writer's
association in New York. The latest
notice may be found in the columns
of the Harvard Crimson, which re-
Gently has taken pot shots at both
Penn and big red for loading up"
When Miller attacked big time
football, it was felt that he was
making some sort of apology for
Yale's so to Z trouncing by Penn. It
also was understood that he was an
nouncing the blues determination
not to go after football players.
But it now develops that Miller
was pointing, right at Penn and
Cornell, which had been placed back
on Yale and Harvard schedules
VIXEN they took measures for grid
iron de-emphaSis.
will say that Yale and Harvard
have stuck by their guns, and re-
fused to scout the country for foot
ball players. But at Cornell and
Penn. there has been a keener
alumni interest in the gridiron fore
es. Some of the best material in the
country is located at these two col
leges. Right here in Ithaca, the
freshman squad has more 1889 high
and prep captains than any other
yearling eleven in the country, I am
informed.
Cornell and Penn seem to find
the new situation very enjoyable. If
Yale and Harvard fire them off their
schedules, big red and the Philadel-
phia outfit doubtless will survive. ]
am all for the principles actuating
the authorities at New Haven and
Cambridge. But it seems to me they
are in danger of becoming very, very