DUCKTRACKS
By Charles Peterson
Emerald Sportswriter
Members of the ancient and honorable football coaching
brotherhood made a rush for the crying towels and a dash for
yon wailing wall this week as they regarded in collective horror
what can happen when you get too good, or when people even
suspect that you might be too good.
Frank Leahy, unlamented coach of the vanquished Notre
Dame Fighting Irish, has for years been the idol of those coaches
who would have the opposition believe that their po’ little fellas
are hardly a match for Podunk High, much less the big, bad be
hemoths they’ll lock horns with come Saturday. Of course, on
Frank the prophesies of doom wore a little thin after 39 defeat
less Saturdays, and were generally passed off with a “who do
you think you’re kidding” attitude. After his Purdue debacle,
Leahy’s predictions may be treated with more respect, but we
imagine his pessimism will far outstrip any possible tragedy.
Elsewhere, the Gloomy Gusses and Weeping Willies of the
profession are out to convince anyone who will listen that their
grid mastadons couldn’t possibly be as good as they looked last
week. Joe Kuharich, USF mentor whose forces massacred Ne
vada 66-6 last Sunday, complained that his boys were unable to
develop any “continuity of offense.” Now, that’s a pleasant
sounding little phrase, but if he really means it we’ll eat these
\jTords.
We Can't Win
Then there’s Howie Odell up at Washington and Lynn Wal
dorf down at Cal, both of whom are spending large portions
of their time in warning all and sundry that their undefeated
aggregations will be fortunate to escape with their lives when
they collide with Oregon State and USC respectively this
week. There may be a grain of truth in these statements, it is
true, but only because of the ever present possibility of upsets,
which seem to occur no matter what the coach may say.
Waldorf remarked that the Trojans really “have the horses”
despite their loss to Iowa and tie with Washington State. That
reminded us of a remark in Greg Gregory’s Oregonian column
which he had lifted from a column by Maxwell'Stiles in the Los
Angeles Mirror. Seems Stiles was disgruntled over the men of
Troy’s loss to Iowa, and remarked that while USC had the
horses all right, they were using the wrong end of the horse in
this one.
Color, Yet
We see in the papers that color TV has been given the green
light by the Federal Communications Commission. Beyond
doubt this step forward for the TVers will cause another stride
to the rear in sports attendance figures. Hardest hit will prob
ably be the colorful outdoor sports, with football taking the big
gest lumps. And you can’t blame the fan, who only too often
parts with his coin to witness a somewhat less than thrilling spec
tacle of the 66-6, 55-0, or 42-0 variety.
Down in the Lone Star State, which tries unceasingly to be
biggest if it can’t be best, they’re trying out an innovation this
Saturday which outdoes anything in the way of football pro
motion we’ve run across in a long time. This latest bit of chi
canery concocted to bring out the public in large numbers will
be an afternoon-night doubleheader featuring four of the major
^college teams in the Southwest. Scene of the festivities will be
\ihe Cotton Bowl in Dallas where Texas and Oklahoma will
meet in the afternoon while Southern Methodist and Oklaho
ma A. & M. clash in the evening.
The gent who was behind this extravaganza is probably bust
ing his buttons over this collection of talent, for all four are un
defeated (A. & M. has one tie) and SMU, Oklahoma, and Texas
rank two, three, and four in the weekly Associated Press poll. All
star games excluded, this will probably be the greatest collection
of collegiate grid talent ever seen on one field on the same day.
Traveling Circuses?
Whether this represents the dawn of a new era in which col
lege football will show their wares wherever the biggest crowd
can be collected, we would hesitate to say. Certainly the game
has been feeling more and more in recent years the pressure for
a winner which can come about consistently only through big
budgets, big crowds, and big stadia.
It’s this preoccupation with the economic side of the sport
which prompted one writer to paraphrase thus a well-known
bit of wisdom:
And when the One Great Scorer comes,
To write beside your name,
It’s not whether you won or lost,
But how many paid to see the game.
That just about washes it up for this week except for our
weekly fling in the predicting business. Last week we had one
fight, none wrong, no ties. Percentage to date—1.000. For this
week we'll say Oregon again, this time by three, 28-7.
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