The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-11-07
JEWS IN
SPORTS
h. MoRRIs WEnNER

monC Vi CnlS ten year old learning
center. However, the one thing
necessary was omitted. The col
lege provided everything for the
athletes except the athletes them
selves. And Oshins still insisted
on making the most out of nothing
and keeping the old college spirit
going in school where spirit and
sports were secondary to studies
and textbooks.
Brooklyn College draws from
some thirty high schools and it's
registration is numbered high in
the thousands but high pressure
prosylitization and lucrative offers
from the big name football schools
draws the top-notch athletes away
from the home grounds, provided
that the boys had the terrifically
high average to get into Brooklyn
College in the first place. And,
scholarship standards are never
relaxed. Another headache for
valiant coach.
When one reads of a squad of
IS or a hundred training for
football at NOtre Dame or Mime
sofa or Pennsylvania or Southern
California, he is not at all sur
prised. But if you had the job Of
creating football team out of a
handful of some nineteen or
twenty yOungsters-sOme of whom
never held pigskin in their
hands-and attempting to mould
workable machine out of this
nebuIOus maSS-yOu would be able
to gather some of the formidable
tasks confronting coach. And,
suppose that a boy comes out for
football and then learns that it is
impossible for him to play any
more because of financial reasons.
A coach would easily be forgiven
if he threw up his hands and said
'To hell with it," But not Lou
Oshins. He goes out and finds
jobs for the boys.
What is more, as athletic dlrec-
tor, Lou is the man who books fu-
ture teams on the schedule. This
too he does very shrewdly. He
books clubs in the same football
division as Brooklyn but he does
so with an eye to the guarantees
offered. He accepts the most lu-
crative and so a sport that is sup
ported but slightly on it's home
grounds, pays for itself year after
year. AS a matter of fact, there
is but one game that is sell-out'
That is the annual classic between
Brooklyn College coached by Lou
Oshins and City College, coacneo
by Maestro Benny Friedman Inc
rivalry is bitter. And not even
the highly touted opposition be-
tween Notre Dame and Army
PENNSYLVANIA and Cornell and
Michigan and Minnesota nor the
colorful tradition of Yale-Har-
ward or a Observation-Disclosures Till
can match the bitterness and the
keenness of play between tnese
two small time football lnstltu-
tinons. And more times than not
LOUIS teams have taken their Old
er brethren into camp.
The chances are that until TINS
minute, you sport fans IN tne
Southlands, in the Northwest ana
on the Pacific cOast-nO matter
where YOU are-yOu never have
heard of this gallant, perserVerlng'
Woodworking coach. Chances are
Won never will despite his COACH
ing acumen and his astute ways
of handling a difficult athletlc dl-
rectorship. Lou is content to re-
main at his own Brooklyn College
The spirit of the school itsel1 IS
the only small time affair Lou
works with. His athletes VINO
nerform under the most adverse
Conditions and under the very
ieers of their own students are a
ro11oDt lot. The very fact that
these boys even play is due 10
Oshins' indefatigable spirit ltseli:
So it's hats off to a gallant Dano
Of athletes and to an untlrl"s
coach.