Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1926 — Page 8

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S'l^^MfiimiifimniiiiniiirnminffliiiiiiiißiMiinniiinraiiniiuiii TIRRIN’ the DOPE By VEDDER GARD

r~]o seldom do the men who I I make possible the long runs in football receive the credit that Is their due. The back who carries the ball gets all the glory usually. Undoubtedly he deserves much credit, but his team mates, who chop off the opposing secondary defense frequently are unmentioned. The coach knows, but the public sees only the results of the good blocking. It sees only the darting figure of the man with the pigskin. This is only natural. In the kaleidoscopic flashes of a football play there is too much action to concentrate on much else but the ball itself. Even a trained observer has only one pair of eyes and everything can not be seen. It was with much satisfaction that we noticed in Walter Eckersall’s account of the Notre Dame-Army contest that the man who umpired the contest gives two linemen a place along with Christy Flanagan in the play that brought victory to the “Irish.”

Eckersall says that Miller, left tackle, and Voedisch, left end, helped make Flanagan’s sixty-three-yard run for a touchdown possible. The two of them, sweeping over from the left side of the line, “took out” Wilson and Harding, who were in a position to nail the Notre Game half back. Rockne’s back fields from year to year are considered great. Any number of Important games have been won by the “Irish” because of long runs which come suddenly, unexpectedly, in contests which seemingly were deadlocked. The answer is superb blocking. The ball carriers are fast and know how to run. No credit should be taken from them, but any time one witnesses a Notre Dame game he can not help but be impressed by the savage, ruthless interference. great football team excells In this feature. That’s what makes It great. Theoretically each play is a potential touchdown. If every offensive man “got” a defensive player the man with the ball would speed to a touchdown. Thfe odds are always against such a thing happening, of course. But a team that gets the greatest percentage of its opponents out of the way is going to win. Back of the flash and sparkle of Notre Dame is fundamental football. They should give Rockne the nickname of “Bed.” His grid principles go right down to bed-rock. • * * (TIN Interesting question was I I raised Sunday In the Washington Park clubhouse by "Gaumy" Neale, former Washington and Jefferson tackle who Is now playing with the local J. J. C.s. There was an argument concerning the best scoring play to use when within a yard of so of the opponents’ goal. | Usually a line smash is tried. The big tackle thought that this in many instances was a mistake. The opposing team usually piles in on such a play—the secondary defense swarming into the center of the line to aid the forwards. A plunge off tackle or through center is expected and the backs play in dose. Neale was of the opinion that an end run usually is the attack having the best chance of success. On an end run, with only such a short distance to go, the end usually Is in close. He is about the only man to be taken out of the play for a short gain. In last Saturday’s college games Yale scored its only touchdown on an end run when two yards from the Princeton goal after two line smashes had made only a yard. Ohio State scored its last touchdown against Michigan on a seven-yard end run by Eby. We are inclined to believe Neale Is right. There are too many pileup plays close to the goal line. It gives the defensive team too much chance to concentrate its power. • • * SHE Indiana high school basket ball season is under way at a mid-season clfp. Many one-point decision arguments last week-end started the fans on their goofy way in a hurry. Vincennes opened its $125,000 gym with a 39 to 38 victory over Mitchell. Some 4,500 spectators saw Bedford trim a fine Martinsville teem, 35 to 34. Frankfort nosed out Montmorencl by a single tally and Greencastle downed Shelbyville, 30 to 28. Hartford City and Elwood also were in the one-point winner class. This city had one of the lucky ones. Manual managed to scrape out a victory at Mooresvllle, 25 to 24. What struggles to start things off! And they’ll keep it up all winter, with the colleges adding their bit to the excitement. * * * SHE old question of the Importance of the extra point after touchdown was brought forcibly to mind by last Saturday’s college grid results. There were a number of tie games and several important ones decided by one point. The great Michigan-Ohlo State battle was won by the Wolverines when Half Back Clark of the Buckeyes failed to drop kick the point that would have tied the score. Benny Friedipan of Michigan booted both points after touchdown and sent one over the bar from placement from the forty-three yard line. But, speaking of golden toes, how about Carey of Cornell? He kicked three points after touchdown and added one placement from the field. The score was 24 to 23, Cornell. Carey’s toe made six of those points.

NOTRE DAME’S SCHEDULE STRONGEST OF UNDEFEATED TEAMS

THE ‘WHY’ OF GRID SCOUTING Brown-Ya!e, Navy-Michigan Upsets Prove Value of ‘Gumshoe.’ Bv Time s Soer.inl NEW YORK, Nov. 15. —The morality of scouting In college football is in question, Yale, Harvard and Princeton, once the “Big Three,” have agreed to eliminate it. Coach McLaughry of Brown scoffed at the suggestion and dropped in at the Yale-Durtmouth game a few weeks ago. What he saw enabled him to teach his team hov. to beat Yale a week later. Before the Michigan-Navy game, scouts from Annapolis looked over the Wolverines and brought back such adequate details of the “Friedman to Oosterbaan” plays at Ann Arbor that the Middies were thoroughly coached in defense against this doughty pair. It would seem to be a question of what each individual institution expects to get out of the game of football. If a college aspires to victories, with consequent prestige, , gate receipts, increased attendance and alumni support, then it will favor scouting. If it regards football as a sport. In which the character of the players as well as their physique is to be developed, then there are other things besides scouting which might well be eliminated. A short time ago, we had motion pictures—slow motion and otherwise —as a means of scouting. There was some outcry against this, although in reality it was merely efficiency applied to a recognized system.. If a college hires the best support It can afford to get the most victories out of its football material, It would seem that scouting would he part of the coache’s job, Yale, Harvard and Princeton are in a position where their academic prestige iind alumni support are independent of football success. Other institute ns are not. TIGHT BILLIARD RACE Hunter and Rubens fan Tie Leader by Victories This Week. The week’s schedule in the State three-cushion billiard tourney is as follows: Tonight—Rubens vs. Jones. Tuesday Hunter vs. Merriken. Wednesday Spivey vs. Vogler. Thursday (3 p. m.) —Sharts vs. Black; (8 p. m.) Cooler vs. Black. Friday— Kepner vs. Sharts. Ramsey is leading at the present time with five games won and one lost. He is closely pressed, however, by Hunter and Rubens, who have won four and lost one. Ramsey does not play this week and so has no chance to better his standing. Hunter and Rubens can tie Ramsey by victories. STRONG MARMON SQUAD Local Factory Organizes Basketball Club—Collegians on Team. The Marmon Motor Car Company will have a strong basketball 'team including a number of well-known college players. Among the collegians are Harold Harmeson and Chester Rigsby of Purdue and Royse and Colway Os Butler. Other players: j Emil Harmeson, Bob Stehlin, Paul j Chapman, Allison, Lugar, Stewart, Hockorsmith and Dixon. D. H. Giffin has been named secretary; R. J. Stenlin, business manager, and H. Harmeson, playing manager. The team will play on the road and at home. Call Drexel 3679-J or address R. J. Stehlin, plant No. 3, Marmon Motor Car Company. LAST EASTERN RACING Bv United Preen BOWIE, M&, Nov. 15.—Fall rating entered its flnqj stage in the East today, with the opening of the last meeting of the year here. The meeting runs twelve days.

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Record of Rockne’s Hoosier ‘lrish’ Machine Stands Out in Summing Dope. Ry Frank Getty NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—The football fates are fashioning the crown that symbolizes the mythical chanv | pionship of 1926 to harmonize with flaming red—the predominant color of thatches at Notre Dame. Os course, the brains that have steered the “fighting Irish” to the top of one of the most scrambled heaps in football history are incased in a skull which boasts practically no hair whatever —unless Knute Rockne invested in hair tonic since Saturday’s 7-0 victory over the Army. But both Notre Dame’s captains are nicknamed “Red” and it was a youngster of Celtic extraction named Chris Flanagan, who should be redheaded, who sprinted 63 yards to bring about the downfall of the Cadets in the season’s most important intersectional game. A Master Coach In the twilight stage of a season marked by more sensational upsets than any within memory, Knute Rockne has cqme to be recognized once more as the greatest football coach in the country. Where fate kept tossing the dope Into the discard one Saturday after another, Rockne’s husky Irish kept their slate clean and went on winning. Only once this season has Notre Dame been scored upon, and the “Irish” revenged themselves for a solitary Minnesota touchdown by beating the Gophers, 20 to 7. Had not Chris Flanagan galloped for a touchdown at Yankee Stadium Saturday, and had not the Notre Dame line and secondary defense checked the Army backfleld for the first time this season, ij might have remained for the Service game at Chicago on Nov. 27, to have determined the football championship of 1926. Besides Notre Dame, six elevens stiU retain clean slates for the season. The following, like the “Irish,” have not been beaten or tied: Navy, Brown, Alabama, N. Y. U., Lafayette and Stanford. A comparison of the schedules and records of these unbeaten teams awards the palm to Rockne's men. Even if the Navy, after a fortnight’s resf, defeats the Army at Chicago, the Middies cannot claim to have ac(Continued on next page)

ROCKNE TEAM DOES IT STUFF AGAINST ARMY ‘lrish’ Victory Puts Spotlight on Hoosierdom —I. U. Downs Mississippi A. and M. Butler Crushed.

By Dick Miller The national football dope bucket was jarred a bit Saturday, but a thump was not very surprising. While It was thought by many that Army would defeat Notre Dame, the point of doubt rested In enough heads to make the game more or less of an even affair. The boys who wagered on the Irish wished Saturday night that thejl had taken more, as the final score, 7-0, rolled In. Christy Flanagan got away on one of those favorite end runs behind perfect interference and left twelve chalked lines behind as he galloped sixty yards for the onlv score of the game. The final count was 7 to 0, Notre Dame. The staunch Irish admirers believe the Army will defeat Navy at Chicago, and Notre Dame will go to the coast Dec. 4 to play University of Southern California with a chance for national title claims. Getting back to Hoosier soil today, we find most of the collegiate teams

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A Sad Cadet Bv United Preee Nr~ IEW1 EW YORK, Nov. 15.—A sad young West Point i__J Cadet who had been assigned to the press zox Saturday to tell the reporters the names of the Army players who were trying to defeat Notre Dame, remarked when he had heard that Tommy Hamilton had won a game In the last mlnpte for the Navy: “That’s two games they won on luck. They didn’t have a right to beat Colgate and they can’t shout about stealing that game from Georgetown. They got luck. But they ought to play a team like Notre Dame. Luck and fifty players wouldn’t help them.”

GENE IN VAUDEVILLE Bu United Frees NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Gene Tunney is to undertake an eight weeks’ vaudeville engagement, following his return from a vacation in Bermuda.

at the last week of practice. The gridiron curtain falls next Saturday. A few teams have Turkey day assignments. Indiana has a bit more confidence since the 18-to-6 victory over Mississippi A. and M. at Bloomington Saturday. The Southerners, with a good record for the season, played splendid football, which gives the Crimson supporters more confidence as to the outcome of the conflict next Saturday with Purdue. The Boilermakers sent a good little team, Franklin, home under a crushing defeat, 44-0. Franklin, green, but possessing a strong line and a lone set of back field performers could not stand the pace rs the substitutes and regulars that Jimmy Phelan marched on and off the field. The resul> more than anything else points out the power of the Purdue reserve, although * Cotton Wilcox was the man who scored about half the points. (Continued on Next Page)

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J. J. C.s (Indianapolis). 14; Richmond Tigers, 6 ironton. Ohio. 15; Kokomo. 0. Detroit Panthers. 0; Dayton Triangles 0. Pottsville Maroons, 13: Duluth Eskimos, 0. Buffalo, 13: Hartford, 7. Chicago Bears, 10: Milwaukee Badgers. 7. New York Yankees. 24: Boston Bulldogs. 0. Chicago Bulls. 3; Philadelphia Quakers 0. v Brooklyn Lions. 10: Canton Bulldogs, 0. Los Angeles, 0. New York Giants, 0. Santa Clara. 41: Marines. 0. Cleveland Bulldogs. 6: Columbus Tigers. 0. Kansas City. 22: Providence. 0. BACK IN 1922 Chicago hasn’t defeated Illinois in football since 1922. That year the Maroons, boasting a fairly strong eleven, whipped the Zuppke aggregation 9-0.

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COLLINS RELEASE SURPRISE By Billy Evans. Veteran American league Umpire. The greatest shock of my baseball career. That’s what I received when I read the wire report that Eddie Collins had been deposed as manager of the Chicago Wh)te Sox. Big league managers are usually let out because the owners of the club regards them as failures. Eddie Collins has been a big success from the day he took charge of the Chicago club up to his finish, the win ning of the 1926 city series. I rate Eddie Collins the smartest ball player I ever came Into contact with. There Is no question about his being the greatest second baseman of allttme. His managerial career has been equally successful. If I were the owner of a big league ball club I know of no pres ent day pilot 7. would prefer to Collins to handle my players. Certainly there must be other rea sons for his passing than managerial ability, for he possessed that to a marked degree. Perhaps It was financial. Ray Schalk, his successor, is smart, popular, aggressive, and if he can handle men, and I think he can, he should be a success. I have always thought Schalk would be a great manager, hoped some day he would be given the chance, bbt I hardly looked for him to succeed Collins. Yes, sir. This life of a big league manager is a mighty precarious one.

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