Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-16
Los Angeles Stadium
Decision Delay Adds
To Tough Problem
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-National
Football League club owners expect
to adjourn today, whether or not
they reach an agreement on their
1916 schedule. If they fail Com
missioner Bert Bell will take the
list home to Philadelphia and sleep
on it. Maybe he can dream up a
solution.
Schedule making was the meet
ing's bugaboo, although it appeared
simple enough when the boys first
gathered round the conference Ia
BILE. They fired and hired a COM
missioner quickly enough, didn't
daddle over Cleveland's plea to
transfer its franchise to Los An
geles, and acted promptly enough
ON proposed rules changes, but
when they got around to deciding
who would play who, where and
when, ah, there was-and is-doubt
and hesitation.
Latest fly in the soup is the Los
Angeles Stadium Committees de-
ciSion to wait two weeks before act
ing on the Rams bid for five home
games there. Although the NIL
owners have proved themselves cal
loused sitters of the old school, even
they should pale at the thought of
two more weeks here The Rams
applied for five 1916 dates, Septem-
Der %, October 20, November 10 and
II, and December s. Their pros
pective opponents are the Chicago
Bears, Cardinals, Green Bay Pack
ers, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia
Eagles. They already have an ex-
hibition with the Redskins sched-
uled at the Coliseum September IT,
sponsored by a local paper.
Expense Of Trip a Drawback.
One hitch in the proceedings was
the Eagles inability to work in a
game with the Bears at Chicago en-
route West. Round-trip fare by air
from Chicago to the coast is $4,000
for 40 men, but If the Eagles have
to start from their home base it
might be economically unsound bust
ness.
The leagues major objective is to
draw up shooting" schedule for
their all-out war with the ALL
America Conference. Several times
they've been within a game of COM
plotting the list but simply couldn't
get that last one in the purgey.
This years card will be II games
instead of 10, with the New York
Giants getting seven home games,
the Redskins six, Philadelphia five,
and Boston four or five in the East.
Also represented at yesterdays
meeting of the Los Angeles Commit
tee we're the Pacific Coast League,
one of the Nationals three new
minor league allies, and the Los
Angeles club of the All-America
Conference.
Bulldogs May Release Dates.
If the pros succeed in crashing
the 100,000-seat coliseum, heretofore
reserved for colleges excepting
charity games-the dates probably
will be divided equally among the
three leagues. In that event it is
possible that the Los Angeles Bull
dogs, represented at New York by
Owner j. Howard Sullivan, turn over
theirs to the Rams.
The National and it's affiliates yes
terday locked and bolted the gates
on any players who actually partici-
pate in game with an All-America
team by outlawing them from all
leagues for five years. That means
a number of players in the Pacific
Coast loop who jumped NIL con-
tracts automatically will be barred
next season. The Rams and Bull
dogs will be friendly neighbors, hav-
ing reached agreements on players
and territorial rights.
San Francisco won the right to
the next franchise granted by the
National, with Los Angeles second
in line, but it may be a long time
before either moves up the ladder
because of the Nationals decision
at this meeting to limit its roster to
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