MIXING  'EM  UP

By: Gordon Mackay

THE PERFECT FOOTBALL MACHINE-
 
     Those four words, more than any language of
ours, any canvas of the word picture, describe the Pottsville Maroons, the professional football team
that is runner-up to the Chicago Cardinals, national champions in the pay-as-you-enter game.
     These warriors, all of them stars, some of All-American vintage when at college and better now,
just formed the 100% football eleven.  Their
defense was impregnable as the score of Frankford indicates.  They rolled up 49 points, rolled them
up in impressive decisive fashion.
     The writer has gazed upon some great football
teams in his time but never has he seen a football
eleven of one day look so formidable, so close to perfection as did the Maroons in their battle on the
coal impregnated soil.
     Nothing was overdone by those gladiators,
nothing failed.  Their forward passing was a thing
with which to conjure.  If Oberlander handles the
aerial attack better than Ernst, once of Lafayette,
then Obe is the greatest forward passer the game
ever knew.  He would have to be that to defeat
Ernst in his work at Pottsville. 
     Through the line the attack was varied and
merciless.  Pottsville had its greates day, Frankford
one of its most ineffective.  And the Pottsville
Maroons, playing as they did on Sunday, would
have defeated any football eleven in the country,
bar neither college nor pro.
                Two Real Champions
Likewise the invasion of Shibe Park by the Maroons
on December 12 when they play the Four Horsemen
will definitely settle the controversy as to the
respective merits of the college and commerical
football.

    Notre Dame's great machine of 1924 will
be intact for this battle.  Surely no eleven this
season excelled the Four Horsemen and Seven
Mules in their labors of 1924.  Certainly Harry Stulhdreher and his minions have suffered no diminution of their talents, because they have
kept right in touch with football.
     The Maroons, as we stated, are without a
superior in their zone of gridiron endeavor. 
Hence the two best representatives of the
college and professional game will be embattled,
and victory  should give the successful school
a fine talking point over its rival.  Likewise it will serve as a splendid indication of the trend of
football, as to whether the play of the campus
or the marts of trade is the better.
     It should prove the most interesting game
of the season, not the greatest drama.  Red
Grange is Red Grange, but he is the lure that
draws thousands who troop to the field to see
him play.  But on December 12 at Shibe Park
the thousands who wander thither will see the
TWO BEST ELEVENS representative of the
different systems of FOOTBALL involved.
     Needless to say thousands upon thousands
who have read of hte deeds of the Four
Horsemen will want to see this quartette ride
the range.  But do not forget that Crowley,
Laden, Don Miller and Harry Stuhldreher were
not ALL that Notre Dam had last season.  They
had a nobby center named Adam Walsh, Collins
and Huntsinger were very good ends and the
rest forming an ensemble that was majestic in its might.
     This contest, viewed from the standpoint
of real championship football ranks higher than
any gridiron controversy of the season staged
here.  It is the perfect college team, approached
only this season perhaps by Dartmouth, against
a pro team 100% efficient.

Philadelphia Inquirer- December 2, 1925