Evening star., 1940-12-12

strong legs run that crippled legs
NAV walk
Perhaps the best commentary on
this game is that the President of
the United States annually starts
the contest by pressing a button in
the White House which sets off
bomb in Kezar Stadium" said
Spaulding He is in complete SYM
pathy with our aims. You see, the
profit from the 1889 game was used
10 build a swimming pool adapted
to the use of infantile paralysis
patients"
Game Costly to Stage.
Those other bowl games are
great. but here is game that really
goes down around the heartstrings
OF every one who ever has seen
a crippled child. Kezar Stadium
has capacity of $1,000 Tickets
are priced at 81 to So We probably
will gross around $4,000. but it
costs lot of money 10 put on a
spectacle such as that. Our net
usually runs around $4,000.
We pay the expenses of the
players. We give each OF them a
wrist watch, a blanket and a pass
TO future games. Furthermore. we
stage what We believe is the finest
between-halves show at any football
game anywhere. Among other items
u q n,
band and around 1000 performers
in all. You can see its a pretty
big show.
The players? They are all seniors
chosen from all colleges except West
Point and Annapolis, whose boys
are not permitted to play post-season
games. They must have finished
their college football careers and
no more than two men can come
from any one school
Great Players Presented.
We've had some pretty good foot
ball men in those games. too.
Nagurski of Minnesota. later with
the Chicago Bears: Bill Osmanski
who ran that first touchdown
against the Redskins Sunday; Mar
shall Goldberg of Pittsburgh, Cot
ton Warburton of U. S. c., Hank
Schaldach of California, Frosty
Peters Of Illinois, Pug Rentner of
Northwestern. Bruce Caldwell and
Larry Kelley of Yale and Max
Krause and Leroy Zimmerman, now
with the Redskins.
SO many all-AmericaS it makes
your head dizzy have played on the
teams which have met in Kezar
Stadium. There was George McAfee
of Duke. Steve Andrako of Ohio
State, Andy Farkas of Detroit, Cecil
1sbell of Purdue, Al Wojciechowicz
of Fordham, Frank Souchak Of
Pittsburgh and Ace" Parker of
Duke, for example. Yes, We have
had lot Of all-Americas.
The coaches have been all
America, too. This year We again
will have Andy Kerr of Colgate and
Bernie Bierman of Minnesota for
the East, and Babe Hollingberry
of Washington State and Maj. Law
renee 'Biff' Jones of Nebraska for
the West They've put on a fine
show in the past and they'll have
their squads keyed up again on jan
uary l. So far in the series the West
has won nine games, against Ave for
the East, with one a tie.
This Contest Is Tons.
We'll be sold out a week before
the game Spaulding said. You see
San Francisco is 470 miles from Los
Angeles and the Rose Bowl won't cut
into us or our game into them OF
course, We think our game is better
It's an all-star affair. and really for
charity. But that is matter of
opinion"
Spaulding has chosen an all
Shrine game team 1t isn't very
f1attering to the East. for of the
ii players are from schools west of
the Mississippi, Here it is, with the
years the boys played:
Brick Muller, California. end.
1925; Bill Anahu. Santa Clara. end,
1910; Lloyd Yoder, Carnegie Tech.
tackle. 1927; Ted Roebuck. Haskell
Indians. tackle. 1927 Buck Bailey.
Texas College. guard, 1925; Jack
Cannon. Notre Dame. guard, 1929
Babe" Horrell, California. center,
1925; Cotton" Warburton. Southern
California, quarterback. 1885, Hank"
Schaldach. California. halfback.
1888; Bob Smith, Oregon, halfback,
1910; George Sauer, Nebraska, full
back, 1888.
And it's too bad we cannot have
some of those Georgetown bows this
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