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PAGE FOUR 7«dov / l Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (IP' —Every day, in every way, your modern athlete gets bigger and better—which surprisingly enough is why there has been such a terrific increase in football injuries. Jesse Harper, who coached at Notre Dame before the alumni had a subway, took one look at the Irish last Sat urday and said they made the Four Horsemen look puny. Bob Mathias walked all over Jim Thorpe’s individual re cords in winning the Olympic Decathlon title. AH of which points up the theory of Jim Lee HoweU, coach of the New York footbaU Giants. “We’ve always had big boys but, like in basketball, as a group your athletes are bigger today,’’ Howell explains. “Not only are they bigger but also they are able to move more quickly. “This means that they hit harder—and something has to give.” ADMITS GREAT CHANGE Howell admits there has been a great change even since the days when he was a pro end in the late 30’s. “My wife never saw me play,” he explained. “So recent ly I obtained some pictures of some of our old games. Now, J always thought I was a pretty good player. I never knew] I was such a poor one. We weren’t the players then that they are now, I’ll tell you.” The greatest difference, he insists, is the blocking de partment. “In my day we moved into an opponent and then start ed to drive them out,” he illustrated. “Today those big boys take off like they were shot out of a cannon. They drive into an opponent, sharper and better than we ever did. You don’t find the brush blocking much any more, either. It’s ‘boom’ and somebody is on the ground.” Another factor, he concedes, is the great amountt of downfield blocking in which the blockers pile into the de- j fensive men under a full head of steam. COLLEGE PLAYERS BETTER “Then there is the factt that the college players are bet ter now, too,” he added, “and so much bigger and faster.” Nor will Howell, the one-time Arkansas star, hold still for the popular conception that pro football lacks the spirit and enthusiasm of college play. “We played San Francisco a game this year and didn’t get a single InMttv* he , said.-“H?hen we had a 15-minute scrimmage and*los tHrte nren'with injuries.* 5 p “Your pro player today Is even “more determined to make good than the collegian,” he insisted. “Even the ones who have it made play like tigers and I’ve had guys cry be cause they wanted to get Into a game so badly.” TRie combination of big, fast athletes giving it the “old college try” whether they are collegians or pros thereby causes most of the physical damage, LHowell held. When that immovable objects collides with Irresistible force, something’s gotta give. 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SEC DOMINATION In six meetings between the two conferences so far this season, SEC teams have racked up four wins. Only Clemson. which beat Georgia, and Duke, with a win over Ten nessee, boast victories over SEC foes. Georgia Tech beat Duke 27-0 to hand the Bme Devils their second straight loss. Vanderbit blasted Virginia 34-7 asd Tennessee maul ed North Carolina 48-7 last Satur day. Michigan Still Tops; Duke Drops To 15th NEW YORK OP! Michigan’s “thrill a minute” Wolverines, who score their football victories with a script out of an old-time movie melodrama, topped the United Press ratings today for the fourth week in a row. Oklahoma beat out Maryland for the No. 2 ranking by a slim mar gin, and Georgia Tech, West Vir ginia. and Texas Christian moved into this week’s top 10 selected by the 35 leading coaches who make up the United Press rating board Notre Dame's 21-7 victory over Navy and upset defeats suffered byr Aubtrifr, y'Sot|thft7r - California and Texas A&M caused the shake up in the top 10. The Middies drop ped from fourth to 10th, giving UCLA. Michigan State and Notre Dame an opportunity to advance one notch each to the respective 5, 6 and 7 rankings. Three Top Teams For the second w’eek ini a row, ✓a comparatively few points sep arated the three top teams. Mich igan’s comeback power, which overcame a 14-point halftime def icit and produced a 33-21 victory over lowa before a nationwide television audience, helped Coach Bennie Oostarbaan’s Wolverines ‘'widen” their lead from last week’s six points to 10 this week. This was the fourth game in the past five that the Wolverines were called upon to come through with their best football in the second half In order to preserve their per fect record. As a result, 15 coaches picked Michigan tops in the country. Okla homa received only seven first - place votes compared to eight for Maryland, but the Sooners attract ed more votes for succeeding places and edged the Terrapins, 291 points to 289. Michigan’s total was 301 points. First - Place Votes Fourth - ranked UCLA had three first place votes and fifth ranked Michigan State received the re maining two. Points, based on 10 for a first place ballot, nine for a second and so on down to one for a 10th place vote, were distributed; UCLA 221; Michigan State 211; Notre Dame 202; Georgia Tech 117; West Virginia 77; Texas Chris tian 75, and Navy 53. Georgia Tech, West Virginia and TCU made the biggest Jumps th ; s week as they knocked Auburn, Southern California and Texas A&M out of the top 10. Georgia Tech moved up five places to the No. 7 ranking; West Virginia, mak ing the season's first appearance in the select group, jumped three spots to No. 8; and TCU advanced m pailt mooan. innm, h. a Duke and Virginia face more woe this week as the Blue Devils meet Navy in Baltimore and Vir ginia goes to Pittsburgh to meet the Pitt team that handed Duke its first loss as the season. The one conference game on tap sends North Carolina against South Carolina in the Oyster Bowl at Norfolk. Clemson, a 19-13 winner over Wake Forest, meets Virginia Tech at Roanoke. Va., while Wake For est plays host to William and Mary*. North Carolina State which beat Furman 33-7, will go after its third straight win against Boston University at Boston. DEVILS HAMSTRUNG Halfback George Volkert scorel twice id the first six minutes to lead Georgia Tech against Duke. 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Games Next Weekend Next weekend’s games most like ly to shake up the top 10 are Mich igan State vs. 14th-ranked Purdue and Navy vs. 15th-ranked Duke. Most of the other leading teams should be victorious. Michigan con tinues Its Big Ten schedule against Illinois; Oklahoma seeks Its 26th consecutive triumph In a Big Se ven game against Missouri; and Maryland will be out to make Louisiana State Its 13th straight victory. Only 19 teams were mentioned on the coaches’ ballots and for the second week in a row there were not enough teams for a “Second 10” group. Ohio State took over the No. II ranking, trailed by Tex as A&M. Auburn and Purdue. Duke and Southern California tied for No. 15, with Mississippi, Miami, Fla. and Army rounding out the week’s list. to be Paul’s son. Paul also happeu to be business manager of at Lehigh, and between the coaching chores, he keeps an eye on the ticket sales, athletic finances and the like. Lehigh Winning Streak Paul stepped in as backfield coach in a hurry this past summer as an aide to Bill Leckonby when Harry Dockham resigned. All that’# on his mind this week is Lehigh's five-game winning streak as it readies for VMI at home, plus the gate, and how are the ends doing? For the record, young Short is doing all right by dad and Lehigh tradition. lie’s a 20-year-old junior, a six-foot, 175 pound stripling, and a big reason why the Engineers won five after dropping the sea son “s opener to Cornell. The kid is the big man in the pinch. He’s caught 16 passes for 261 yards and two touchdowns. He’s the guy they throw to when the game Is close and the lift is needed. He put on quite a show when Lehigh bumped Gettysburg from the unbeaten ranks in a terrific comeback. He caught five passes for 76 yards. Two set up touch downs which enabled Lehigh to overcome a 12-point deficit in what was regarded as an upset in some circles. All-Time Great The kid is following a dad who was quite a football player In his WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMftfeR own rlghtTPop was one all-tlm* greats, a quarterback du tag the early 1930’a. the team pun ter and a fine broken field run ner. , As an old footballer, Pop remem bers if hat happens out there. winces a little when Austy takes a hammering, or even when n, makes a tackle or snags a pass. “Sure, he’s Just a member of tin squad.” pop reflected, “but I guess that’s only on the surface. We»i. he’s my kid, and I’m proud of hlmt.” In other leading Eastern games next weekend. Cornell la at Brown Dartmouth at Columbia and Prin ce to nat Harvard in the Ivy Lea gue: North Carolina State is at Boston University, Colgate at Buck nell, Rutgers at Labette, Duke at Navy, Syracuse at Penn State. Notre Dame at Penn, Virginia at Pittsburgh, Army at Yale and Muhlenberg at Temple. Dayton is at Holy Cross on Sunday. More than a fourth of the trucks In the United States are farm-own ed. 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