Football Matches: Nov. 7, 1927

There must be heroes. The people crave a new "Red" Grange. None has turned up. This year there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract.

Meanwhile, the hero manufacturers (the coaches) are hard at work. No one of them makes a hero purposely; they make good football...

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