The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-10
Williams Says All But Two Out To Bears
By JOE WILLIAMS

New York. Dec. l0-It may be that some of the boys are worrying their pretty little heads unnecessarily over the capital punishment the Chicago Bears inflicted on the Washington Redskins at the old Roosevelt home stead.
 Concededly, it is possible to paint a suspicious picture. As the cham pionship finale was played the Red- skins never belonged on the same field with the Bears. Yet three weeks before the Redskins beat them 7-3. Hof come, then, the next time they met they were slaughtered 73-0? It's difficult to make this add up.
 Yet those things do happen in football. Three or four of the touch- downs were of the species that would be described as unearned runs in a baseball recital. Which is to say they didn't come the hard way. Two factors, and possibly 8 third, con- tributed to the shambles: CD the Bears were better, CD the Redskins never were worse.
 Whats more they took the easy way out when the going got tough. With one or two exceptions, notably Bill Wilkin, the Redskins merely went through the motions. Owner George Marshall says some of the S'ayers won't be back. You can bet on that. The fans won't stand for them.
 The Bears are being called the greatest team in the history of foot ball. Very likely they are, too. We'll when you concede that, plus the evidence that the Redskins quit, is 1t hard to figure out why the score was 73-0? If time hadn't run out out it could have been 173-O.
 The possible third factor has to do with personalities. Owner Coach George Halas isn't one of Marshall's most lyrical admirers. The fact is Marshall isn't uniformly popular in the league. This isn't puzzling. You might even say it's natural. Mar shall is noisy, dominant, and some what contemptuous of several of his colleagues. He's a lively, relentless, progressive force in the sport This type of man doesn't win admiration: more often than not he will court envy ana criticism.
 Did HalaS deliberately run up the score of humiliate Ma. shall? There is a feeling in some quarters he did. Halas was undestrainedly pleased with the outcome and along about midnight, in a more mellow mood, he wasn't apologizing for the di- mensions of the rout. But even so, anybody with eyes could see he wasn't trying to murder anybody.
 The individual star was Sid Luck man, old Columbia Blue. Halas benched him after the half and kept him there. Why? Luckman was fred hot" explains Halas. He couldn't do anything wrong. Every play he called was a touchdown. I took him out hoping to make it look like ball game" There can be no theorizing or speculation about this. Luckman was benched because he was too good. That is probably the first time this ever happened in a major game. It is patent that if Halas wanted a full measure of re- venge, granted the thought ever struck him, he would have kept Luckman in.
 There were other signs. The Bears brought along thirty-three men. Everyone of them played. Even Jack Torrance, a 290-pound tub of suet, a fourth string linesman, who is kept around largely on account of his good nature, popularity and stimu- Jus to the squad. And the Redskins were so terrible that even Torrance came within a yard of scoring @ touchdown himself. This would have been the insult supreme.
 We shouldn't think 1t would be good business to beat any team 73-0 and the pros-lneaning the box ofiice gents-are good business men first and football enthusiasts next. Halas wanted a humping victory over Marshall but he didn't want 1t to degenerate into a joke. That could hurt the sport in Q good town and Washington is one of the best foot ball towns in the circuit. What might have happened was thst halas couldn't control his players. Mar shall had made Q silly crack the Bears were no good after two pc. riods. There is much more spirit in pro football than you'd guess. The active Bears probably decided to make Marshall cat his words. At last reports the glossy laundryman was Atlll on the Ash course.
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