The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-02
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College Football Of 1943
 Will Have Military Tinge

This combination of student-serv. ice football which seemingly we are to have next fall will be conducted on severely economical basis. Il will be stripped of all luxuries and hamboyart duo-dads. By that time the O. D. T. will probably have worked out a standardized pol icy as to trips. There is little req son to expect a generous relaxation in the present attitude, which gen. orally speaking, accents fewer and shorter trips. Nothing short of enormously good news from the bat tie fronts could conceivably bring about a change in the o. D. T., of- flee. Therefore it would seem the part of wisdom for the athletic di- rectors to revise their schedules ac- cordingly; in short, eliminate long trips. The fact that commitments for such trips were made to or three years ago means nothing. Notre Dame, for example, has at least three long trips; Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York. We will be surprised if more than one is at- tempted; the trip here to play the Army, and even that one may have to be abandoned.
 As the well known bard, Mir. w. Shakespeare, once remarked in an inspired moment: "Out of every evil comes some good" Musing along these lines, we see no reason why athletic differences in various metropolitan communities should not be composed in these times. Specifically, we have New York in mind. Is there any sound reason why Columbia, Fordham and Man. hattan, three big-time college teams should not ge together in a round robin? There isn't of course, and the o. D. T. office couldw give them at leas tone very good reason why they should. The o. D. T. office doesn't care how many people use the subway oh how often.
 For some silly reason Columbia feels superior to Fordham. It may be that Fordham fels superior to Manhattan, too. We don't know just what the rub is there. But we do know this much: it's time the gentlemen put away their toys and started to grow up.
 Missed On One
 Perhaps that's neither here nor there anyway, the first wartime football season is ended. The re- suits of the bowl games came out just about as we expected. We missed on one: Texas beating Georgia Tech. On all the others, we had the right dope. Most of all we were not surprised by the de- feat of Boston college, at one time called the number team of the country. Boston college had never met a real good team in the east. Boston college became facous by way of a weak schedule. This is so easy to do. It Is something to keep in mind about all football teams.
 Most football teams, or to make 1t personal, most football coacheA and athletic directors realize this. It seems that nobody in connection with Boston college did. The B. Gers wsere just good, very good and they came out and ,brazenly told everybody how very, very good they were. AS it turne dout they weren't. So maybe we were right all along when me nominatedf, very early, Ohio State as the best of them all. In this respect, we have one thing o nour side: Ohio State didn't have to play any bowl games and there by, possibly, harass us. That could have happened, too, but we are so safe in saying, we don't think SO.