Post by Coach Campbell on Nov 5, 2002 12:16:58 GMT
Grange established himself as one of the all-time greats of professional football before he retired in 1935. Just before hanging up his uniform for good, Red wrote a letter to Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, containing some remearks that might be of interest to fans who may still believe that a good college team would be a match for a major league squad. It stated:
I say that a football player, after three years in college, doesn't know anything about football, Red wrote. Pro football is the difference between the New York Giants baseball team and an amateur nine. College players not only do not know how to play football, but they don't take as much interest in the game as the pros. In college you have studies to make up, lectures to attend, scholastic requirements to satisfy. In pro ball you are free from all this. You have nothing to do but eat, drink, and sleep football and that is just what the boys do.
Pro football is smart. It is so smart that you can rarely work the same play twice with the same results. Competition is keen. There are no set-ups in pro football. The big league player knows football, not just a theory or system.
Taken from Roger Treat's, "The Encyclopedia of Football"
Coach Campbell
I say that a football player, after three years in college, doesn't know anything about football, Red wrote. Pro football is the difference between the New York Giants baseball team and an amateur nine. College players not only do not know how to play football, but they don't take as much interest in the game as the pros. In college you have studies to make up, lectures to attend, scholastic requirements to satisfy. In pro ball you are free from all this. You have nothing to do but eat, drink, and sleep football and that is just what the boys do.
Pro football is smart. It is so smart that you can rarely work the same play twice with the same results. Competition is keen. There are no set-ups in pro football. The big league player knows football, not just a theory or system.
Taken from Roger Treat's, "The Encyclopedia of Football"
Coach Campbell