Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-11-26

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They all work I'M Sa'
der different condi- # s |
tons, with varying aaSN
support, through Assla
widely different a 1900 S|
schedules.
OF, the lot, Cover Lou Little
hall, Columbia S able
SHIPPER, has the hardest handicap to
overcome SO far as team protection
lis, concerned. Most of the better
.passers work on teams that also
can run. COlumbia's only scoring
passage is through the air, and ev-
cry opponent knows it.
The Top Man
Footballs three best passers are
Sammy Baugh, Cecil Isbell and Sid
Luckman. You can have them in
any order SO long as Baugh is No. l.
=" Taking crack at our earlier
angle about the word "best," foot
ball has never known a pass receiv-
.er. close to Don Huts0n. Hutson has
graphing hooks for hands and the
speed Of a cheetah. He also has a
deceptive method Of taking the en-
; eniy out of position.
= Baugh is an amazing athlete. II
weighed. 100 pounds when I played
with Texas Christian several years
ago., he told, me recently. II still
weigh exactly 1870 pounds. I don't
figure I've changed as much as two
spounds in any recent year."
] can recall few athletes who have
kept in such fine physical shape
for 50 long q time.
Back to the Collegians
How many would run far and pass
well against such teams as Mime
sofa, Alabama, Wisconsin, Ohio
State, Georgia, Georgia Tech or
Notre Dame?
- For example, Wisconsin has two
of the star backs of the year, but
look at that Badger scheduled 1t
included Notre Dame, Missouri,
Great Lakes, Purdue, Marquette,
Northwestern, Ohio State, Iowa and
Minnesota. How many new records
could the best of backs set up against
this opposition?
The caliber. and quality of oppos-
ing teams too often is overlooked.
And there; is many potential star
who is also. overlooked on some Of
= the poorer teams, with which he
has little chance to operate.
Hard to Compare
;. It takes no starry-eyed expert to
announce. that Boston College and
Alabama have two of the country's
greatest lines, including depth of
material. They can't be stormed
along the ground-just too many
big, fast men.
e. But it is harder to compare such
passers as Governali, Sinkwich,
:Prokop, >Dobbs and others. Cover
mali hasn't anything like the man.
power: support the others have.
There is a large difference between
working ''or playing with Columbia
land playing with Georgia or Notre
Dame. ...s-s.
!. "A. good, running game can be a
big help to any passing game. Aft
er all, Baugh has Dick Todd, and
you may recall the time he had
Cliff Battles-two of the best run
ners working with great passer.
And Luckman has had some of the
greatest backs in football history
with the Chicago Bears-Standlee
-McAfee;. OSmanski, Noting and 9TH
ers. Sinkwich has his own running
, ability to call on in addition to other
fast backs. Bertelli has all the rum
ming help he needs.
=. The best single exhibition I've
seen this year came from Sinkwich
in his two-touchdown march against
Alabama's strong defense - some
thing like II passes completed out of
13 tossed in that final period.
Apparently no set of adverse fig
ures ever can prove to the racing
bettor that he is up against a bit
more than he can digest.
For. example, the case of Whirl-
away serves our point. Long Tail is
the biggest money winner of all
time. He has had an amazing rec
ord of running and winning. Yet,
if someone had bet SIS on Whirlaway
in every race of his career, said
bettOr would be behind financially.
The answer is that Whirly has lost
too many races when he was an
odds-on choice.
After his first few races there
was little chance to make any
money backing Man o. War. There
were times when he was 1-to-10O or
1-to-80.