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...glamorous ball-carriers of 20 years ago are carrying the ball again. Last week Illinois' Galloping Ghost of 1924 joined two of Notre Dame's famed 1924 Four Horsemen to form a ruling triumvirate of pro football: 1) ex-Horseman Elmer Layden, now serving his third season as $20,000-a-year commissioner of the National League; 2) ex-Horseman Jim Crowley, named last fortnight as the boss of the newly organized All-America Conference; 3) Harold ("Red") Grange, elected president of the also-projected U.S. League. Still to be heard from was Trans-America, the third...
...week, football's journeymen had all but forgotten the Sun's biffy: an eight-column headline story on a pressagent's squib that most of the Chicago Bears came from war jobs. The story had sicked the War Manpower Commission into investigating. But last week Elmer Layden, professional football's commissar, had in his pocket the WMC decision that football is the principal job of professional footballers...
...Also in Layden's pocket was a handsome set of figures: despite war troubles that cut the National Football League to eight teams, average game attendance is 23,644, up 39% over the 1942 average. The winning teams are making money...
Other Southern standouts: Mississippi State, pre-season dark horse which trampled Alabama last week (14-to-0) for its second Southeastern Conference victory; and University of Texas, led by triple-threat Pete Layden, one of this year's most versatile backs. Last week Texas trounced Louisiana State...
...Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching his Out of the Night, Pro Football Commissioner Elmer Layden fined Dodger Team Owner Dan Topping $100 for disparaging the professional league...