They Said It

? Murray Warmath, Minnesota football coach who lost 10 starters by graduation and saw three promising sophomores quit after a few days of practice: "They didn't quit because they thought they wouldn't play. I think they may have quit because they knew they would play."

? Fred Hutchinson, Cincinnati manager: "Baseball should make some changes. An interleague schedule should be the first."

?Joe Froh, Rice end, on what department of football he's best at: "None, I guess. All recessive genes, no dominant characteristics."

?Bob Devaney, Nebraska football coach, on the new substitution rules: "Now we have to assign a coach getting $10,000 a year just to handle the substitutions."

?Del Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees, after they had cinched the pennant: "When we won with Stengel in 1949, I got 292 congratulatory telegrams. This year I got six."