The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
SUTHERLAND SET FOR TEST WITH CHICAGO BEARS
Brooklyn Dodgers Are Up Against Best in Pro Grid
 League Sunday
By JOE WILLIAMS

By JOE WILLIAMS
 New York, Oct. 18.-Dr. John Bain Sutherland, the familiar Jock, was packing his duffle bag getting ready for an invasion of Chicago
 This will be our vital test" said the tight lipped, scholarly looking Scotsman. It'll prove whether we're good or just ordinary"
 The good doctor coaches the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Profess sional Football league. They have won three and lost one. That's good record for first year coach. But we've been winning against he little fellows" pointed out the doctor. Those Bears out there in Chicago will be different"
 The doctors scouts have brought back aweSome reports on the Bears =. They figure to be two touch downs better than us. We'll need the breaks to win"
 This wasn't the conventional tish tosh of the coaching fraternity. The Bears have it again this year, while the doctor started in under a ham, dicap in his first professional tutor ing job. He wasn't even in on the draft of the new players and he has had to install an entirely new system. There wasn't man on the squad who was familiar with his system when he began.
 'They tell me the slogan of all teams in Brooklyn is Wait until next year." smiled the doctor. "This may turn out to be the case with us, too"
 Sutherland is the most famous coach the professionals have att tracted so far. He left the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh after fifteen years to take over the job. He has welded together some Of the most celebrat- ed teams in the history of college football.
 We wondered what he thought of the professional game as compared with the college game He always had and still has deep respect for the college game. From what he had seen of the professional game what would happen if a Grade A professional team met a Grade A college team?
 Well, if I said the college team would win I'd probably be accused of belittling this new business I am in; but in all honesty I wouldn't t be able to say it anyway. The pros are better. They have to be, what with all the advantages they have"
 The doctor thought they were bet ter because of their greater poise, experience and ability to relax. Its hard to get college men to relax. They are tense all the time This takes something out of them The pros have been through the mill. They are aware of the poison of tenseneSs. They know they can relax and play the game just as hard and with more boise and skill"
 Get Right Players
 Another and very vital advantage the professionals enjoy, said the doctor, is the circumstances which permit the coaches to go out and get just the type of players they need for their particular demands. You know the kind of play CTS you must have to make your style of play work and you are in 8 position to get them. They may not be as competent as you'd wish but they are the type anyway"
 The doctor had to think a long time before he answered the next question: What was the greatest college team he ever saw? GAS has been stated, the doctor had some great ones himself)
 T imagine I'd have to say Rock ne,s 1880 Notre Dame team was the best" he said. Tt was about as close to perfection as anything I ever saw. The fellows could do anything and Carideo who ran the team on the field, was a second coach. never saw him make a mistake"
 We wanted to know if that team would beat professional team? |. Well Rockne said it would at the time. I wouldn't know because I didn't get chance to see the pro- fessionals of that period. I wouldn t know whether they were as good as they are now. If they were I think I would have disagreed with Rockne. God as that team was it wouldn't beat teams like the contemporary Redskins, Packers and Giants. And I don't think they would beat us"
 Reminiscing
 The doctor had reason to remem- Der the 1930 Irishers with small comfort. This was early in the series between Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, which ended on a rather un- pleasant note in 1897, the story be- ing that there were personal feel ings between the doctor and Elmer Layden, who by then had succeeded to Rockne's job. But more of that presently.
 We were trailing 35 to 0 at the half" recalls the doctor, when Rockne came over to me and said, Jock, that's all we need today. You go ou tand get yourself some in the next half.'" P. S.-The doctor got himself 19 and thus averted a com- plete Shambles.
 That's an old story about Layden and me-" said the doctor. He's supposed to have got mad at me be- cause I didn't walk across the field and shake hands with him after one of our Pitt teams had teaten one of his Duquesn eteams, but that isn't so and Layden will tell you it isn't.
 Anyway the story is that as soon as Layden moved to Notre Dame he