THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE
Detroit, Oct. 24.—(UP)—When I had tea with Millard Fillmore in 1856, and discussed the platform of the Know-Nothing party, I never dreamed I would live to see the day when two football players would chase the presidential candidates of two major political parties out of the public mind.
Probably neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Willkie would admit it, but until Michigan and Pennsylvania get through with their game here Saturday afternoon the only two names attracting any serious attention are Tommy Harmon and Frank Reagan. You can shout the name of either Roosevelt or Willkie on the busiest corner here in town today without halting a pedestrian, even for a second. But just mention Michigan's great back, Harmon, or Pennsylvania's four-star heller, Reagan, and you'll find yourself surrounded by more articulate arguers than a traffic cop can clear away in an hour.
The excitement over the coming clash between these two great backs, both of whom are being compared to Grange and Thorpe and Harley and Nevers, is not confined to Michigan by any means.
Newspaper writers from all over the country are checking in with new typewriters and old adjectives. Every radio announcer without a frog in his throat, is already on the spot. There isn't a ticket to be had, and football fans are running back punts and sweeping the ends in
every hotel corridor and room in town.
Looking at the game soberly, which few in Detroit are doing, I can't help feeling sorry for Harmon and Reagan. After all they're just boys and what a spot they're in. As a lad of 21 or 22 how would you have felt in the same position they're in today? They are going to face, day after tomorrow, upwards of 70,000 persons, each of whom will be there looking for miracles. Listening to the radio, and expecting even greater miracles, will be uncounted millions. And on Sunday another vast multitude will pick up the papers to see who was the hero and who was the goat, Harmon or Reagan.
Under such circumstances it will be nothing short of a miracle if the two boys hold on to the ball at all. In a game like this one bobble can make you a bum, one misstep and your reputation is sullied. Under this set-up how would you like to try to catch a hard, quick pass, or handle a drifting punt in a wind, or be responsible for the strategy that meant winning or losing.
I can tell you what would happen to me under those circumstances. My heart would fracture three very important ribs before the kickoff, my stomach would do a swing version of "Till Never Smile Again," and my nevous system would become a medical phenomenon.
When the spotlights hits you as hard as it has Reagan and Harmon,
Two Sturdy K-State Seniors
When Coach Hobbs Adams sends his Kansas State College eleven against Kansas University here October 26, he can depend upon these two seniors to give the Jayhawks a tough afternoon. Not only is Chris Langvardt, halfback from Alta Vista, Kas., one of the team's leading ground gainers, but he does a formidable job of calling signals, blocking, pass catching and punting. Wallace Swanson, 185-pound end from Sharon Springs, Kas., is rated one of the best winger in the Big Six conference. He packs plenty of power and is an excellent pass receiver. The Kansas State-K. U. football classic will be homecoming at Manhattan.
no alibi does you any good. You teammates may have an off day but no one will notice that and excuse you. You may have an off day yourself, or be suffering from a crippling ailment, but that won't be taken into consideration by the public or the critics.
In short, when you're a Harmon or a Reagan, and the showdown comes, you're either a ball of fire or the fizzled figment of somebody's imagination.
The more I think of the spot they're in, Tommy and Frank, the moe I'm glad I stayed at my concertina while the other boys worked out on the parallel bars.
As soon as colder weather sets in, the K.U. Hunt Club will hold its first monthly meeting, Gayle Mott, proprietor of the stables, announced today. Many students have been wondering why the meeting has not been held.
BEAT KANSAS STATE ! . .
K.U. Hunt Club Awaits Orders From Weatherman
Joseph Chesky, president, said that the club house is in readiness; and that any time the weather man wants to cooperate, he will call the first meeting.
"The club is open to anyone who knows how to ride; and we hope to have a large turnout this year," Chesky said.
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James W. Wallace of Mound City and an alumnus of the University, has been appointed to the position of U.S. assistant district attorney to succeed Gordon Sloan of Topeka. Mr. Sloan resigned last June to enter private law practice in Astoria, Ore. The appointment went into effect Tuesday. Wallace was graduated from the Law School in 1934.
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