Cleanup

While Army was beating Navy 28-to-6 last fortnight in Philadelphia, spectators sucked away on 130 different brands of whiskey and the Army's side outdrank the Navy rooters 3-to-2. To the general post-season cleanup of football information these facts were added last week by Calvert-Maryland Distilling Co., which had dispatched one J. Gold to Franklin Field to count the empties after the crowd had gone. Of course J. Gold found more of his employer's bottles than any other brand. Other items in the wake of one of the best football seasons in the history of the sport:

Three Smiths. Continuing the Walter

Camp tradition, Collier's announced its All-America eleven, five of whose players came from the South, three of whose players were named Smith. The selections:

Ends--Tinsley (Louisiana State), Moscrip (Stanford).

Tackles--Smith (Minnesota), Spain (Southern Methodist).

Guards--Weller (Princeton), Smith (Ohio State).

Center--Lester (Texas Christian).

Quarterback--Smith (Alabama).

Halfbacks--Berwanger (Chicago), Wilson (Southern Methodist).

Fullback--Grayson (Stanford).

"Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame and Ohio State.

On the strength of a protest from Notre Dame's Father John O'Hara, Professor Owen apologized, "if any statement of mine is untrue." To newshawks he observed: "Keep your eye on that 'if.' " For the next day's papers. Professor Owen waded into the Rose Bowl game, which he characterized as a $1,000,000 "racket."

"Ability." Meantime at Atlanta, the Southeastern Conference shed a flicker of realistic light on the problem of professionalism by agreeing as follows: "Athletic ability should receive consideration ... in the assignment of scholarships. . . ." But the Conference was quick to hedge this frank position by resolving that "such assistance shall never be granted primarily as a reward for athletic services" and that it would include only expenses for books, tuition, board, lodging.

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