Evening star., 1951-09-28
On the Air
It's Austere
But It's
Football
By joy cormodY

rOOGDall on Ine auSUeflLy scale
prescribed by the National Cole
giate Athletic Association will take
over the air lanes tomorrow.
In the excited words OF an
nouncers and the exciting images
jof television's cameras. a number
Iof the Nations major teams will
be unveiled to take care of the
first Of a long series of autumn
Saturday afternoons.
The plan to ration football on
television will limit the total num-
ber of telecast games to two, and
not more than one of these to
any single major city.
Washington televiewers will see
the Pittsburgh VS.. Duke contest,
starting at las over WNBW, with
Announcers Mel Allen and Bob
Stanton peering under the player
Ipileups to explain anything that
I is left unclear by the image on
the screen. The fact that Wash
! lingtonians might have a deeper
/ interest in the Navy-Yale game,
the Middies being virtually a local
team, is factor without influence
on the NCAA.
That body is dividing the games
on a sectional basis and if you
don't think it is standing pat, take
look at what New Havenites will
Iget. What they will get is the
Pittsburgh-Duke game. same as
we do, and if they want the other.
they will have to get out to Yale's
bowl in person.
This is how it is. apparently.
when you set out to partition
anything from small, conquered
countries to Saturday afternoon
football games.
Pittsburgh, however, is luckier.
1t gets the local game on its
television screens and If this
should tempt New Haven to secede
from the Union-well, that would
be a bigger story Sunday then
the Yale-Navy game.
While NBC is distributing tele-
vised football on this rationed
basis, CHS will be doing a color
broadcast of still another game.
This is the big intersectional
clash between California and
Pennsylvania, which goes on the
air at 2 pm. and will be telecast
to nine cities. only seven of which
plan to put it on the air. It will
be brought to Washington, kind
of key city in radio and television.
over closed circuits to special
viewing posts. Baltimore will get
the game on the same basis.
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Radio More GenerouS-Radio.
being older and less competitive
i in the judgment of the NCAA,
will be able to handle football on
q UlOTG SGIlSIUuS SCdlc.
Red Barber who launched the
football roundup program - a
country wide scamper from one
stadium to another-starts his
1881 season tomorrow. Barber's
trick is to spot game callers in a
dozen or more of the big game
centers and to keep the Nations S
radio receivers humming with
highlightS, scores, and the cheers
of ecstatic fans.
He will come up tomorrow with
California Pennsylvania; Michi-
gan-Michigan State; Georgia
North Carolina; Southern Meth
odiSt-O Ohio; and Villanova-Army.
| the latter a game that will have
a special quality of drama by
virtue of the Army's spectacular
de-emphasis of football.
\ A number of other games will
get into Barber's roundup in the
course of the afternoon.
California-Penn also will be
! covered by NBC and ABC, with
the latter being called by Harry
Wismer and WMAL's dashing,
durable Jim Gibbons.
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The Stars Roundup - For
those who cannot devote their
Saturday afternoons this early in
the season to football, The Eve
ming Star and WMAL will col
laborate tomorrow night on the
first Of the seasons comprehen-
sive summaries of the days grid
iron results. Reporting directly
from The Stars sports depart
ment, Henry Muslin will give the
complete scores of all games, plus
the highlights of the major con-
tests
The time is 7::45 to 8 pm, over
station WMAL.
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