Sport: Different Game

West Point's Coach Earl Blaik, boss of the best college football team in the U.S., has long had views of his own about the game as played by the professional football teams. Last week he tucked his views under his arm and rammed the pros' line head on.

In an interview published in Collier's, Blaik blasted the "showmanship" and the "big fat men" in professional football. Said he: "If a pro team were put into a league with good college teams it would have ... to play the way the colleges do, or it wouldn't...

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