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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-11-20, Page 7IS Tfl tin t SPQR S COLO II &melt 9etiodoto 4 It is only fair and right that those who sparkled in the hookey crusades of other years should get the preference as the roll is called to puce the greats of the game in their niches in the Hall of Fame, Perhaps the moderns wll chafe at this. They may wish to see honored those of their own era, pass, There are now 42 names listed for the Ball, of which number 32 are players, the other 10 selected because of their contributions to the game in legislation, rules, or equipment. This agent has at last Otte preference, in the names to be included in the next group names by the Committee. That is the late George Hainswurth, who in Itis playing day's with Canadians compiled ,a seasonal gosling record quite unlikely to be equalled in these days when the rules are designed .to place the accent on scoring. - - Flainsworth, in thiel writer's opinion, was nue of the greatest goalers of all tune- Like that other great Canadian gaoler the late Georges Vezina, who preceded hint bey many year:, Ilaimworth was ice -cool in the nets, almost mechanical in his perfection ,aril in his complete lack of what Wright be called "showmanship." Ex- pressionless, unexcited, he just stopped pucks, blocked the heaviest drives without the flicker of an eye -lash, Once, after this agent complimented hint on one of his many shut -out games, Hainsworth remarked, as if annoyed with h'm- self: "I'm sorry I can't put on a show like some of the other goalers. But I just can't do it. I can't look excited because I'm not, I can't shout at other players because that's not my style. I can't dive on easy shots and make them look hard. I guess all I can do is stop pucks." He did very well indeed, at that chore, In the season of 1928- • 29, facing some of the game's greatest snipers, such as Nels Stewart, Ace Bailey, Bill Cook, Carson Cooper, Harry Oliver, Cooney Weiland, Frank Boucher, and others of that unforgettable quality, little Ilainsworth scored 22 shut -outs in a 44 -game schedule, was scored on only 43 times in the- regular season, an average of slightly under one goal per game. No record has ever closely ap- proached this. Undoubtedly this little fellow, who hailed from the great hockey incubator, Ontario's Kitchener district, was one of the all- time greats of the nets. And yet, curiously, he never made the all- star teams of his era, for Charlie Gardiner, "Tiny" Thompson, and Roy "Shrimp" Worters were names to conjure with when, in 1930-31, the selection of all-star teams began. Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto. Colwell DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG. ONTARIO When people of my generation complain that our football has become far too Amercanizcd- end that Yankification has re- moved a whole lot of interest from a once -grand games -the 'usual retort from the modernists "'Aw, you're too old to keep sap with the times" or words to that effect. They also point to the huge crowds attending games in the Big Four and West- ern Senior League, forgetting that these are strictly pay-on- ----erthe-line outfits, dominated by American coaches and players, and ballyhooed by our sports writers in a manner that sickens anyone who believes that Can- adian kids should have a chance iks play a Canadian game on Can- adian soil. After all, when we go to see the Hamilton Ticats, the Toronto Argonauts or the Winnipeg Blue Bombers we are paying to look at - pretty much - a second or even third-grade American team. The proper basis of com- parison is not what any of the above-mentioned teams would duo to Canadian outfits such as Toronto Varsity or Western University- -but how they would fare stacked up against, say, Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears or Los Angeles Rams. To read some of the maga- zine articles that pour across the border, and to listen to the super -heated broadcasts that wend their way north, one a Red Yacht Races -Russians like yacht races, too, as seen in the .above picture; Seen enjoying the sport Is a group of Soviet sail- ors, competing in the Lenigrad competition of the all - Union races. Their fin -keel boat has just taken the wind, moving them ahead in the contest off the port of Leningrad, in which over 470 sportsmen took part, would imagine that Yankee foot- ball is some sort of a super - sport, played exclusively by supermen, But nowadays, even down\there, some folks are be- ginning to think that football is degenerating into a pretty dull affair, ' Few men have written more books, articles, short stories and essays based on American sport than John R. Tunis, and most of them have been highly favorable and en- thusiastic. Now -for a change - hearken to a few paragraphs taken from an article in the New York Times' by Mr. Tunis, en- titled "The Kick is Out of Football." Hearken -also remem- ber the next time somebody suggests that we give Canadian football back to the Canadians. Take it away, Mr, Tunis. "Seine time ago Robert M. Hutchins, then boss man at the Unive;sity of Chicago, predicted that in twenty-five years the Yale Bowl would be an archaeological ruin. If the game of football gets any more boring to watch, the Bowl and other stadia in the nation Will resemble the Forum in Rome long before 1975, "The reasons why football is such a dull game today are many and varied, but most of them can be traced back to the coaches and the rule -makers, who are in many cases the same people. They have taken the kick out of the game for the ancient gra- duate. n. "No doubt the mauves of the coaches and parliamentarians are praiseworthy -removing some of the risk for the players, and so on -but the effects of their labors from the spectator's view are calamitous in two ways: they have complicated, systematized, broadened and otherwise altered the game so that the fan is utter- ly confused about what is hap- pening on the field, and they have ruled out or abandoned some of the greatest moments in the game so that it has lost much of its drama, " e , "First, consider the elements that put the spectator into a state of confusion, in addition to any normal size haze he may have acquired from a flask. Many ot these new aids to confusion are connected with the two -platoon system -one squad of eleven hus- kies performing while a team is on the offensive and a different eleven on the defensive. Sup- pose Princeton is playing Old Nostalgia. Nostalgia fumbles. What happens? • 0 "Nowadays eleven robots swathed in armour and all look- ing exactly alike trot out onto the field to represent Old Nos- talgia, while eleven others shuf- fle off. nit goes McChesty, our dynamic passer, N.O. 45. (Or is he No. 54?) Off goes Van Flana- gan, Nostalgia's great open-field runner, In come a lot eV guys named Joe. And, of course, to add to the confusion, in come eleven new players for Princeton. The worst of it i$ that we ease to sou McCliosty and Van Flana- gan scorn oat Princeton, Alas, they may not appear on the field again uptil the end of lute third quarter, 5 0 e "This sort of thing may assist the coaches in building a`winning team (although, unfortunately, Old Nostalgia keeps on losing as it always did) and help the tele- vision announcers, but for the old grad, by nature -a hero wor-• shipper, it's .no fun, The two- platoon system has been the death of hero worshipping, When • your hero lfappens to be Mc - Chesty, No. 45 (or is it No. 94?) • you'll be able to adore hint only on rare occasions. Even then, you know exit Ily what he will do. Shortly he will toss a for- ward and Van Flenagatie will catch it, Or try to. "The chances arc tl:(1t when Nostalgia at I::st recovl,rs the ball,- and Van Flanagan and. Me - Chesty r'etur'n to pias, you won't even recogn'' hem.IThe tact is you 'odont seri enough of any player to know hien by sight. To- day a minimum of forty•e'ght men are involted in every game. When Princeton :darted against Columbia in New York this sea- son they fielded a team of fifty, nothing unusual. "What's become of the Mighty Atom? Or the Galloping Ghost? Or the Four 1-Iorsemen? Where are our heroes of yesteryear? They've vanished since the two - platoon system was invented, and as a result, what used to be football personalities have nolo become an assortment of num- bers. How can the old grad wor- ship a number? 'Come on, you • 53, conte on for dear old Nostal- gia, come on 48, soon to be re- placed by 37!' e "Another factor making for the confusion of modern football is that nobody can possibly under- stand or keep up with the rules. This even goes for the coaches. Otherwise. they wouldn't change them every twelve months. One of the eternal charms of small boat sailing is the knowledge that nothing has been radically chang- ed since some Phoenician invent- ed the keel about the time of Dido of Carthage. The rules of baseball are almost the same as they were at Cooperstown. Chess has scarcely altered since the days of Ghengis Khan. "But football coaches keep picking away at their game every year like a gang of small boys dismantling a model T Ford. • "As compared with tootbail, baseball is an open book. The rules are not changed every Tuesday and Thursdry to suit the manager of the St. Louis Browns. The spectators see the field, the play, the players. Jackie Robinson is not so completely swathed in armcur as to be un- recognizable. Three strikes are still out as in the days of Abner Doubleday. You may not, it is true, understand the nerebrations of the Great Mind standing in the shadows behind third base. But what he is thinking will be plain soon enough..I1 it's a hit-and-run play, you know when it happens. You can see it too. But in football it's probably a bidden ball play and you have to listen to the radio announcer to find out what happened. "Here is the point where we come to the second category of the things that are wrong with football today -the reduction in its dramatic quality. Bit by bit, the coaches, who make the rules to suit themselves, have whittled and pruned the garnr down to size. Many plays have vanished or are largely neglected. Once there was the drop kick, the quick kick, the onside kick. One rarely sees them nowadays be- cause the coaches have taken the kick out of football. "These plays didn't hurt any- one and they added 'c the color, the excitement and the variety of the game. What happened to the point after touchdown? In the old days, this was one of football's most exciting plays. When the ball crossed the goal line, it was brought out fifteen yards from he spot and kicked at the resultant angle, Today, regardless of where it crossed the line, the ball is centred be- fore the goal posts ea the three - yard line. Your B0 -year-old grandmother could kick a goal after touchdown nowadays. But remember the time when the player who was on his way to a score at one side of the grid- iron had to think about the point after touchdown, so he struggled toward the goal posts, keeping his feet somehow, lunging, plunging with four mastodons on his back to the centre of the field? That's out. "Anyhow, the fact is that the game has lost some of its dra- matic moments and our heroes are gone. The triple -threat man who ran, passed, kicked -and tackled too -usually all amazing- ly well, went out with Frank One•PAan "Navy" '- Harold Charles Green, above, is a one- man "naval" force for Queen Elizabeth 11, The veteran barge- man handles oil problems of water transportation for the Queen, as'he did for her father, King George VI, Green, who bears the title 01 "Queen's Wa- terman," will wear this ornate costume at the Coronation cere- monies in London next June. Merriwell. Today yoei star is an offensive or defensive specialist. There's no such thing as our hero winning the game with a long drop-kick it the last darkening feverish seconds of play. Pro- bably there'd be no place for omen like Ker Strong or like Charlie Brickley, wht kicked five field goals against Yale on a single afternoon. Larry Kelley, ..the great Eli captain, would merely be an offensive left end today due to play twenty-eight minutes in the 1-larvard game. , e e "The old grad has the feeling that something has gone from the game he knew. The coaches tell him that today football is bet- ter played and mor • efficiently played. No doubt, but efficiency has replaced individuality. Pro- bably everyone does whatever he does much better than it used to be done, but there is no health in it. Albie Booth was an indi- vidual in the way he walked, ran, kicked and threw a pass. From a plane 1,000 feet above the Bowl you could tell Booth clown there on the field carrying the ball. Those players don't seem to exist today - So Bruch for Nur. Tunis. W e started off by saying that our football had become much too Americanized, and we'll finish up on the same note. Here is the whole thing in a couple of nut- shells. 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