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West Point's Coach Earl Blaik, boss of the best college football team in the U.S., has long had views of his own about the game as played by the professional football teams. Last week he tucked his views under his arm and rammed the pros' line head...
...have ... to play the way the colleges do, or it wouldn't stand a chance."* Blaik churned on: "I don't learn anything from pro football. I know that if I could not develop a team which would play harder, faster and with greater coordination than the pros, my career as a college coach would be limited...
...Davis, "Mr. Outside" on Blaik's great wartime teams and now, after resigning his commission,* a halfback for the Los Angeles Rams, added the crusher to the pileup. Said Halfback Davis: "In pro ball you meet a great team composed of 33 great players each week. Since the pros take the cream of the crop each year from the college ranks, it is only natural to find much better teams in pro ball...
...safe prediction, as a college team could not play a pro club without endangering its amateur standing. Closest thing to a test: annual games between picked college seniors and top pro clubs. The college All-Stars have won ten, pros...
...General Hershey or in favor of any other specific plan at this stage of the discussion. The problem is exceedingly, difficult and any answer to it will be open to serious objections. I don't know what the answer should be and was simply trying to point to pros and cons and suggest an alternative policy which also has serious drawbacks...