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I’Fritz flansoit Rates Canadian Football with BestSgt. Tom FdleyWINNIPEG — Top flight Canadian football rates with anything played in the football world by a guy who should know. And the super-football game would be an amalgamated version of the American game and the Canadian. So says the same guy. His name, Melvin Fritz” Hanson the lad from Winnipeg Blue Bombers via North Dakota, who has probably left more would-be ladders sprawled on their bellies than any other Canadian football star.Twinkletoes” Hanson came up with this choice morsel not so long ago, when he pulled the same gag stars all over the world have pulled whenever they felt old age creeping in, by announcing that he was through with the game for good. Hanson is topping the ripe eld age of 33, and holds the dignified position of captain and sportsdian 'rugby season is still a few months off and it is to be noted that the list for prospective players on the Blue Bombers roster includes Mister Hanson.Western Canada football fans beam, every time they remember Hanson and as for Eastern Cana-jdian folk—they shudder. For it was the same little 150-pound mite that slipped and slithered his way through clutching arms andsweating bodies on many an Eastern Canada gTidiron whenever the Bombers dropped in to pay their Grey Cup respects. Sarnia, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa—they all had a go at Fritz. Maybe the Bombers didn’t always win but noor»c forgets the way Hanson lugged the mall.I net* Q f xrn to. But the Cana-In making his retirement” announcement Fritz predicts football will make a quick recovery I after sliding back during the Eur-1Iopean war. And he backs up his beliefs by pointing out that both Winnipeg and Regina are heading back into the football picture and the ORU is expanding to six teams and the Big Four resumes play. 'He says that Joe Krol of Hamilton, who will play his football for Windsor this fall, would be a star in any era of the Canadian game. Krol was sensational for the Hamilton Wildcats during the past two years of war time play.But Hanson also thinks that it is time Canadian football rules were uniform across the Dominion. He favors several aspects of the U.S. rules amalgamated with the Canadian version—four downs, unlimited blocking, the rouge and the kick to the deadline, forwardll passing from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage—and that, says Fritz, would be a football game.ifttt1J.1IrC
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Brussels Maple Leaf Belgium Edition
Brussels, Brussels, BE
Sat, Jul 14, 1945
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