Evening star., 1943-04-08
Clubs Are Sliced
To25Men Over
Skins Protest
Charity Game Offers
May Get D. c. Team
To Camp on Coast
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 8.-Moguls
of the National Football League
moved today to draft some 220 COL
lege football players who may or
may not be available for competition
next fall. but a major item of un-
finished business also was to come
up in the form of a schedule ar
rangement which couldn't be cleaned
up in many hours of heated debate
yesterday and until early this morn
ing.
Part of that unfinished business
involved playing of the Bears-Red-
skins game in Washington with
Owner George P. Marshall holding
out for Washington and It. Comdr.
Halas of the Bears equally adamant
for the game in Chicago. The de-
bate wound up in a deadlock as did
all efforts to solve the involved
mathematical problem of nine
club slate to include home and
home games. This was laid in the
lap OF Commissioner Layden, who
wrestled with it for hours after the
meeting closed and was to present
the fruits of his labors today.
AS to the draft job, all clubs have
lists of players they hope to get
mostly the good college players of
1912. But how many will be avail
able and won't be bothered by the
Army draft before and during the
coming football season is not known.
The football solons will make their
pick and hope for the best.
Meanwhile the Champion Red
skins loom as one of the outfits not
badly plagued by manpower short
age.
Redskins Eye Coast Bids.
The Skins may be the only team
which will travel long distance for
training. The Skins have a bid to
play at least one game in the San
Diego (CalifD area and are anticipat-
ing a call from the Navy to play a
game on the coast similar to that
OF last year when more than 10000
men in uniform invaded the stands
to see an lntraSquad tuSSle.
But there is the travel PROPOSE
ton, so the Redskins will train at
or near their Washington home
unless the ODT gives them the
green light to San Diego.
Owner George Marshall says that
inasmuch as a majority of the Red
skins come from the West they
would have to travel farther to
Washington than to San Diego to
train. Therefore" he says, our
travel per man would be cut if we
train on the West Coast Ed Storm,
an old friend of the Skins. is here
with bid for them to return to
San Diego.
The all-star game, in which the
Skins will be opposed by the best
available college talent, will be
played in Chicago during the week
of August %.
The Redskin owner led a fight to
retain the 33-player limit, but the
league voted to cut the active player
list to 25 men by time of the first
game. This was regarded as an op-
timistic high as some of the clubs
don't know where they will get II
men to start.
Substitutions Unlimited.
Detroit, New York, Green Bay,
Brooklyn and the Chicago Car
dinals will train at home. Pitts
burgh will train at home or at
Hershey, Pa. Philadelphia will train
at home or at Atlantic City. The
Chicago Bears will train at Della
field. Wis.
Other changes include unlimited
substitutions. plan adopted for a
one-year period, and the empower
ing of Commissioner Elmer Layden
to call additional meetings for the
purpose of drafting players as grad
uation schedules of colleges make
them available.
The league is worrying about the
manpower situation and the ten
dency is to build for 1914 in the
hope that the Germans crack and
that football may come back next
year. There isn't any doubt here
that the 1943 season is going to see
few good men and lot of guys
named Joe in football togs next fall.