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THE FLATHEAD COURIER PAGII

ARE football players today larger

or smaller than old-time line-

ups? A firm of experts, that deals

In such vital statistics for a matter

of record, sends inthis query. We haveno accurate figuresat hand, but wedoubt that modernfootball carries anymore weight thanthe old-time paradeonce offered.One reason is that

every year thegame demandsgreater speed andquickness, whichisn't found any toooften among the behemoths andmastodons.You might think the modern game

had the bulge in weight when yourecall such men as Cal Hubbard,Muss°, Joe Stydahar, Al Blozis, WeeWillie Wilkin, Turk Edwards andothers from the pro ranks.

But these were the pick of a lotthat was both massive and active,two elements needed in any profes-sional line.These can be listed as the gam-

boling mammoths, picked from theentire football map.

But when it comes to averagecollege weights, there were morethan enough big men from 30 or 40years ago-many of them too bigfor the modern passing game.

Looking HackLooking back a few decades. I

can't recall any heavier squad thanHurry-up Yost once had beneathMichigan's banner of Maize andBlue.They were on hand nearly 40

years ago.In this list, at various times, I re-

call the following fairly husky speci-mens-from 1901 to 1906-Germany Schulz-Center-6 feet 4

inches-240 poundsCurtis-Tackle-250 pounds.Octy Graham-guard-230 pounds.Rheinschild-tackle-215 pounds.Neil Snow at end weighed 200 and

Willie Heston was around 190.Schulz, who backed up the line

and tackled at either end and allover the field, Was the most activebig man •I ever saw. His closestrival was Cal Hubbard.

The old days, also, were full ofgiants-Glass of Yale, Edwards ofPrinceton, Fats Henry of W. and J.,Gordon Brown of Yale, Babe Whiteof Syracuse, Heffelfinger of Yale-in addition to Michigan's crushingman power.

And no one has ever accused Min-nesota of playing lightweights, yearafter year.

Rockne's FavoritesKnute Rockne's two favorite No-

tre Dame teams included no giants.

These were the Four Horsemenoutfit and the 1930 squad.

I've always thought his FourHorsemen and his Seven Mules

were closest to his football soul, forthe reason they happened to be oneof the lightest big-time teams foot-

ball ever knew.The average weight of the Four

Horsemen in the backfield wasaround 160 pounds.Elmer Layden at

fullback was 162.Harry Stuhldreherwas 155. Crowleyand Miller around160.Adam Walsh, one

of the best of cen-ters, was in thegeneral neighbor-hood of 180-maybeless.Rip Miller, Na-

vy's brilliant linecoach, was a 180-pound tackle.

Elmer Layden

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Grantland Rice

Pounds and SpeedThe 1930 Notre Dame team was

probably a stronger outfit. Itpacked many extra pounds-andstill had speed. •

Joe Savoldi was its biggest back,

but after losing Savoldi around mid-

season Rock still had Marchy

Schwartz, Marty Brill and a few

others left-enough to crush a fineSouthern California outfit.

On that team Rock had a midget

guard by the name of Metzger, who

ranged somewhere from 157 to 165

pounds.Rockne rarely had men in action

above 200. He wanted speed, quick-

ness, agility.My guess is there would be no

great weight change in football over

a long period of years. But this isstill a guess.Boston college had one of the

heaviest teams in the country

through 1942, with a massive line,

but it couldn't handle the greater

speed of Holy Cross and Alabama.

Weight in football, is still unim-

portant compared with speed andquickness.But that doesn't mean football

still can't use a flock of big fel-

lows who know how to move around-Mel Hein, Bulldog Turner, Muss°,Wilkins, Stydahar, Henry, Blozis,or Hubbard.

Big, fast men always will be the

answer to a coach's prayer. And

that is true of more sports than foot-ball. Speed and size are essential to

modern basketball. But here speed

Is necessary, it's usually the smaller

man who fills the bill.

Washington, D. C.

ARMY VS. NAVYThe Selective Service system isn't

advertising it, but there has been

some fierce rowing behind the

scenes over the induction standards

of the army and navy.Though the army has liberalized

Its physical and mental require-

ments to increase the number of

draft eligibles and likewise keep thelinduction of married men at a mini-

mum, the navy still clings to the

higher standards in effect while itwas taking only enlisted men.

Virtually all physical require-ments are higher for the navy, but

the biggest difference is in the men-

tality tests for the two services.Navy induction doctors won't passa man unless he has a fair I.Q.,

whereas army doctors are requiredto approve lower standards.Result is that thousands of induc-

tees who express a preference for thenavy are turned down and find them-selves in an army uniform instead.The fact that the army has to takethese navy "castoffs" is bitter medi-cine to war department highups; andBrig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selec-tive service director, made a strongprotest about it behind closed doorsrecently to the War Manpower com-mission's management-labor policycommittee.The standards for both services

should be uniform, Hershey de-clared, adding that if the navy'sstandards were brought down to con-

form with those of the army, itwould help offset the need of induct-ing married men, especially thosewith children.

The navy has been turning dowo a

large number of single men for

physical or mental reasons. Hershey

pointed out."How has the difference in stand-

ards affected the army?" the draft

director was asked."It's affected us plenty," explod-

ed Hershey. "The navy selects

whom it wants and the army gets

all the lower element."

The committee agreed with Her-

shey, promised to recommend to

WMC Boss Paul McNutt that he en-

deavor to have the navy's standards

lowered.• • •

FRANK NAVY TALK

Vice Admiral Fred Horne, assist-

ant chief of naval operations, has

been holding some quiet blackboard

talks with the house and senate

naval affairs committees, and these

talks have been a real step toward

congressional-executive co-operation.

Horne, by his frankness and willing-

ness to admit navy mistakes, made

a better impression than any other

navy man appearing before con-

gress.Horne was high in his praise of our

naval officers and men, but frankly

admitted that the navy was caught

off guard in the Savo Island battle

of August 9, just after the marines

landed at Guadalcanal. He said

there was no excuse for this defeat;

that a board of inquiry was now

investigating; and there probably

would be heavy penalties for the

guilty.Horne said that apparently the

captains of the cruisers sunk had

not ordered their men to battle sta-

tions. He also revealed that an Aus-

tralian admiral that night was in

command of the "screening force"

of cruisers and destroyers sup-

posed W be protecting the main task

force.Horne admitted. that the Austra

lian officer and Admiral Kelly Turn-

er, chief of the Allied task force.

knew a Jap scouting fleet was in the

vicinity, but didn't figure it would

risk an attack. The commanders

calculated that the earliest possible

time the Japs could reach Savo is-

land was after daybreak next morn-

ing.Therefore, the Australian admiral

left his flagship, the Canberra, and

spent the night on Admiral Turner's

flagship 25 miles from the scene of

battle. No orders were given mean-

while to Australian and American

officers under Turner and the Aus-

tralian, and they were caught com-

pletely off base when the Japs struck

at about 1:50 a. m.Japs Cornered in Aleutians.

On the more optimistic side, Ad-

miral Horne reported the United

States had sunk a great many Jap

cruisers, and that despite the defeat

at Savo island we had been definitely

superior in operational strategy.

In the Aleutians the Japs are so

completely bottled up, Horne re-

ported, that we probably could wipe

them out at any time. Our sub-

marine patrol has been especially

effective in these waters, with the re-

sult that the Japs are desperately

hard up for food, aviation gasoline

and other supplies.Horne also made no attempt to

minimize the seriousness of the sub-

marine menace.• • •

CAPITAL CHAFF

Interesting question: Why is it

that army air crashes during train-

ing and operations right here in the

U. S. A. are military secrets? Could

it be that some persons are trying

to ptotect themselves from public in-

dignation?e. One of the roads running through

the woods around Ft. Benning, Ga.,

is labelled "Burma Road," another

"Chungking Approach." But most

popular among soldiers is "the Road

to Singapore," because at the end

they hope to find Dorothy Lamour.

/04 TiSEWING CIRCLE

yES! These are clothes you canmake of flannelette fbr the little

stranger yourself. We've keptthem very simple so that even ifyou haven't sewn much before youcan make these. Bonnet, sacque,wrapper, sleeper and bunting arein one size only-but that size isbig enough for a baby of any ageup to six months.

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Pattern No. 8324 includes 5 pieces. inone size only, far infants to six months.Bonnets. sacque, wrapper. sleeper andbunting require 5% yards 36 or 39-inchmaterial. 6i yards ribbon binding.

J SNAPPY FACTSABOUT

RUBBER

In Zambezi, Africa, carts used bythe natives have tires made ofelephant hide, which serves th•purpose of rubber.

In Bulgaria natives paint pictures oftheir enemies on their tires so theycan be regularly splattered withmud, as a gesture of contempt I

Cars and trucks for transporta-tion account for 56 per cord ofthe Army's rubber requirements.

Cord tire construction, the type com-mon today, first made rapid inroad.on the cord-woven fabric tire in1915. Low pressure balloon hzezmade their appearance in 1924.

Cryptostespla Is a new word forthe rubber lexicon. To FloridiansIt is the technical name for the11.4•xicon morning glory, whichhas been recognized as one ofthe most promising rubber-pro-ducing plants.

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Keep the Battle Rolling

With War Bonds and Scrap

Plenty of Variety.

YOU'LL be tempted to makedickies in several colors to

wear with this smart jacket suit.If you do you will find that theone suit will seem different everytime you change dickies. Thesimple, comfortable lines of bothjacket and skirt are ever so be-coming.

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Pattern No. 8341 is in sizes 12, 14. 16,18, 20; 40 and 42. Si7,e 14. with shortsleeves, takes 3% yards 39-inch material.Send your order to:

SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.530 South Wells St. Chicago.Enclose 20 cents in coins for each

pattern desired.Pattern No Size

Name

Address

Make a definite place aroundthe household to keep instructionbooklets that come with appli-anc&s, then when directions arefleeced they can be quickly found.

• • •

Your lipstick will stay put muchlonger if you pat a little face pow-der over your lips before applyingit for a firm foundation.

• • •

When making pastry, use pas-try flour made from winter wheat,as it makes pastry more tenderthan bread flour.

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Cotton placed in the fingertips ofyour rubber gloves will keep sharpfingernails from cutting throughthe rubber.

• • •

If adhesive or gummed tape be-comes too stiff to use, soften itwith two tablespoons of warm wa-ter and half a teaspoon of glyc-erin.

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If the string for tying packagesfor mailing is dampened beforeusing, it will stay in place becauseit shrinks as it dries. Excelsioris excellent for packing glass orchinaware if it is dampened asit clings closer to articles.

A pinch of salt added to hotstarch will give a high gloss.

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When knitting, don't leave yourwork in the middle of the row-this tends to leave holes in thework.

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To slip a cactus, break off slipsat the joints. Break off three orfour, as they do not always root,au014;stick them in fine sand. Keepthem wet and in a warm placeand they will root in about threeweeks. These will make nice giftsfor your flower-loving friends.

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Lemon juice, salt and strongsunlight are cures for stains onwhite materials.

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If you've spotted a little leak inthe roof, get after it immediately.If water is beginning to seep intothe cellar through a crack in thecellar wall, don't put it off untilsome future time. If you havenotited a brick that's beginning towork loose on the chimney, lookup the stone mason's telephonenumber, and don't let it stopthere, either; get him on thephone.

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The Questions

1. What job does Hideki Tojohold in Japan?

2. Wh'at year contains the offi-cial birthday of the Dominion ofCanada?

3. What is the meaning of "sta-tus quo ante"?4. What vice president of the

United States was a violinist andcomposer?

5. What is the name of a dockused for holding a ship for clean-ing the bottom?6. Who and on what occasion

sent the message "Stars andStripes nailed to the Pole"?7. Two of our states were origi-

nally instituted as palatinates;which ones were they?

H ‘oti NE THE

RUTH WYTIFISPEANT

WICKER CHAIR WITHPADDED COVER

TOP OF OLDPHONOGRAPHCABINETCUT OFFI ABOVEDOORS

LEGS 7I1KAREGUGCur OFF

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NEW'1-•• TOPCOVERED• WITH

ARTIFICIALLEATHER

cO MANY readers have written" me to ask what could be madefrom old phonograph cabinets, andit is only recently that we havefound a really satisfactory answer.This smart reading stand withdeep green leatherette top hasgood proportions and is made froman old oak cabinet rubbed downwith sandpaper and then waxed.In the next article we will showhow the lid of the old cabinetwas used.The new top of the reading stand

is made of old lumber and thecover is tacked in place with brasstacks to match the knobs of thedoors. The old sound box at thetop now houses a small radio andthe old record compartment keepscurrent magazines neatly sepa-rated.

False Imprisonment

That the legal term "false imprisonment" has been given wideinterpretation by the courts is il-lustrated by a New York case ofa few years ago, according to Col-lier's. A gentleman, upon failingto purchase a ticket to a ballgame, tried to leave the parkthrough an entrance, but wasswept backwards by the inrush-ing crowds for more than an hour.So he sued the club for false im-prisonment and was awarded $500.

NOTE: Today's article is one of morethan 30 conservation ideas in the newBOOK 9, of the series of home-makingbooklets available to readers. Directionsfor making the padded cover for the wickerchair; and directions for the "Link ofFriendship" rug are also in BOOK 9. Justsend name and address with 10 cents anda copy will come to vou by return mail.Address;

MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARSBedford Hills New York

Drawer 10

Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 9.

Name

Address

8. At what temperature willmercury freeze?9. What is meant by 39 gauge

stockings?10. What is the difference be-tween a postal card and a postcard?

The Answers1, Premier.2. The year 1867 (July 1).3. The state existing before.4. Charles G. Dawes,5. A graving dock.6. Commodore Peary, Septem-

ber 5, 1909, on discovery of NorthPole,

7. Maryland and South Carolina.8. At 38 degrees below zero F.9. Gauge means fineness of

knit; 39 gauge is relatively coarse,51 gauge is fine.10. A postal card has a stampprinted on it, a post card (illus-trated) has not.

One thing a soldier is afraid ofis a display of emotion. That'swhy his slang so often sounds de-rogatory. For example, he refersto the silver eagles on his colonel'sshoulder straps as "buzzards."But when he speaks of his favoritecigarette, he says: "Camels."They're first with men in theArmy as well as with Sailors, Ma-rines, and Coast Guardsmen. (Ac-cording to actual sales records inservice men's stores.) A gift of acarton of Camels is always wellreceived. Local tobacco dealersare featuring Camel cartons tosend to any member of our armedforces. Hint for the day: Send"him" a carton of Camels.-Adv.

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Love of EternityLove is the emblem of eternity;

it confounds all notion of time;effaces all memory of a begin-ning, all fear of an end.-Madamede Stael.

FAMOUS NO-SUGARALL-BRAN MUFFINSEASY! DELICIOUS!They really are the most delicious

muffins that ever melted a pat of but-Ur! Made with crisp, toasted shredsOf KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN, they have atexture and flavor that have madethem famous all over America.

Kellogg's All-Bran Muffins2 tablespoons % cup milkshortening 1 cup flour% cup corn syrup % teaspoon salt1 egg 2VA teaspoons1 cup Kellogg's baking puw(letAll-BranCream shortening and corn syrup

thoroughly; add egg and beat well.Stir in All-Bran and milk, let soakuntil most of moisture is taken up.Sift flour with salt and baking pow-der; add to first mixture and stir onlyuntil flour disappears. Fill greasedmuffin pans tst-o-thirds full and bakeIn moderately hot oven (400' F.)about 30 minutes. Yield: 8 large muf-fins, 3 inches in diameter, or 12 smallmuffins, 21,4 inches in diameter.

Sugar MoneyCubes of sugar are used for

money by certain isolated tribesin Colombia.

FEVERISH

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IN THEARMY BOMBERSQUADRONS

they say:

"LAYING THE EGGS"for dropping the bombs

"BROWNED OFF"for bored

"PIECE OF CAKE"for an easy job

"CAMEL"for the Army man's favorite

cigarette

FIRST IN THE SERVICE

With men in the Army, Navy,

Marines, and Coast Guard, the fa-

vorite cigarette is Camel. (Based

on actual sales records in PostExchanges and Canteens.)

CA/kin

IT CAMELS FOR

ME_THEY'VE GOT

WHAT IT TAKES!

YOU BET!THEY'RE PLENTY

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