Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
Waldorf Says
Purple Star
WdsMisguided
N'Wes+ern Officials
Were Prepared TO
Ignore Interview
BY BILL COLLINS
International News Service Wire

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Icorrevont IS in New York and
Lynn Waldorf in Texas and there
were more than a few thousand
miles separating the Northwestern
Ihalfback and his coach.
Waldorf, though, was inclined TO
Treat charitably Decorrevont's
criticism of his coaching during q
radio interview last night.
But on the Northwestern Gam.
pus in suburban Evanston, tho
stony silence of Waldorf's assist
Iants was more eloquent than
words. In fact, it was learned to-
day that the university athletic
committee was aware last week Of
lDecorrevont's forthcoming inter-
view, and OF the statements the
hoy would make, and voted at that
thine to ignore completely the criti-
Icisms of Waldorf as coming from
Fan obviously disappointed and
Idisgruntled undergraduate"
OTHERS DISCOUNTED
However, there appeared to be
Iother disappointed and disgrun.
ltled' undergraduates at North.
western.
A senior prominent In campus
activities, said:
"With the material available,
we can't help but feel WaIdorf's
and NOrthwestern's football rec
ord should be better.
"There has been an undercur.
rent OF dissatisfaction with
Waid0rf-coached teams for sew
erai seasons, and BilRs interview
has brought 1t into the OPEN"
A senior member of Decorre.
tvont's fraternity, Sigma Chi. said:
We're solidly behind Bill. We
don't think he went out on n
limb. We believe his criticisms
were entirely Justified"
Waldorf. in Oklahoma City en-
route TO College Station, Tex, had
only this 10 say of the blond half
backs interview:
THINKS STAR MISGUIDED
"Decorrevont was Just a lit
tie misguided In his public rela-
tons. The kids all right Don't
get him wrong. He may have
had little bad advice or been
egged on. The wrong people
pound out advice to him."
Decorrevont, in New York to
play Sunday with the New York
Yankees of the American Profess
sional League in charity football
game, said in the interview that
he had closed his collegiate grid
iron career with many regrets.
"The fact l wasn't an all
American isn't the reason / have
closed college football with
many regrets" he said. For q
number Of reasons, I don't be-
lieve my full football possible
ties were brought out. have
always felt that I could play
football. / have a feeling of re-
great, not regret that I didn't
make the all-American team, but
rather a feeling that I could
have played better on the field
than on the bench. You can't be
picked all-anything on the
bench"
HE WASN'T TIRED
Decorrevont, the most sought
after player in the history of the
game when he was graduated from
Chicago's Austin High School
where he personally scored 311
points in his senior year, denied
rumors, as he has before, that his
Northwestern teammates refused
ito block for him.
Bill readily acknowledged q
coach's right to make substitutions,
but concerning his replacement by
Otto Graham in the Notre Dame
game when the Wildcats were in
scoring position he said:
"Was / tired? The answer r.
No. I left the field honestly
believing that we could have
completed that march to q
touchdown. I wasn't tired and I
wasn't hurt"
Notre Dame stopped that drive
after Bill was taken out, and won
the game. 7 10 6.
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