Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-30

Colts Owe ItAII
To Redskin Chief
BY MORRIS sIEGEL

THE RECORD OF REDSKIN team improvement over
the last years is barely visible compared to the record
of Redskin fan improvement This season provides a
glaring example
buck patron boasts percentage of 800 for the schedule
to date He has scored seout decisions in three of the five
encounters with the D. C. Stadium box office.
The team has won only once here this year. The
ticket buyer heavy avorite to make it four out OF
six for the Baltimore invasion The team isn't
The best advice from the observer who roots more
from his wallet than his heart is that 1t Will be the Colts
by six.
IN THE TWO NoN-sELLoUTs here this year, it's
been awfully close Only few thousand customers made
the difference Again. the team in its defeats at home
didn't come as close.
Baltimore victory at best conjectural What isn't
is whopping payday. With another full house almost
cinch the Colts NAV have to alert their squad help
carry the loot back to Baltimore for their three-hour
courtesy call here The pot probably will go as high as
$4,000.
The Colts their presence here not so much to the
National Football League schedule, which booked them
into town. to George Marshall their arch enemy
without his objections which later became approval
his terms, the Colts still would be pinng away for
franchise .....
Marshall whipped Baltimore into frenzy with his
jbes and insults He did it for purpose To create
rivalry If and when he decided the Colts ready to
mngle in the NFL.
MARSHALL MADE EN- sweat it out for three seasons
before he gave the that he would not interfere with
Baltimore's re-entry into the NIL.
There several little Marshall conditions attached
Of course Thered be slight service charge-$15O0OO-
threeyear period; the Colts radio and TV net
works had to be confined to Timonum Dundalk Pmlico
and York. Pa but could not conflict with the Redskins
rule of the Dixie network.
There were other considerations too before Marshall
agreed to allow the Colts to violate the Redskn 75me
territorial rights
The Redskins would pay only four per cent as their
part of the rental in Baltimore Other teams are charged
is per cent? Additionally Baltimore would be dropped
into the Western Division, which came as surprise to
mapmakers, who always considered Baltimore east of
Washington.
But Marshall wasn't interested in mapmakers or
geography With the Colts in the other division the Red
skins wouldn't have to farther than Baltimore
alternate years for of their two games with
Western opposition As any commuter knows it is not
quite expensive trip San Francisco Angeles
MARSHALL ALSO HAD it arranged by league con-
stution that the Colts and Redskins would meet YEARLY
He left it to the NIL to arrange Washingtons other
Is games but the Baltimore contest his private prize
Before finally giving the Colts the okay Marshall
Sc ticket they didn't know how to behave at
something sanity pro football game and thought
they in the right company with minor league fran
chiseS in both baseball and football.
He also told them to out and get football before
they did anything else Well they managed to latch
to football and they turned it over to Johnny
Unitas they did something with it.
They've bagged two NIL championships, neither re-
Gently in the 10 years since Marshall granted them equal
rights. This is two titles than the Redskins have
in the span.
If Marshall meant to create a rivalry he did More
than 100000 have paid watch the neighborhooc
clubs butt heads the r. 10 years. George had this ir
mind all along.