The Question: Why Are Small Towns And Cities Usually - 11.07.55

	November 07, 1955 The Question: Why Are Small Towns And Cities Usually Better Football Towns Than New York? (asked At A Meeting Of The N.y. Touchdown Club) Jimmy Jemail

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JACK MOHR
Vice president N.Y. Touchdown Club
" New York used to be a good football town. Then the Army-Navy game moved to Philadelphia because we have no good stadium, and Army and Notre Dame called it quits. NYU gave up the ghost and Fordham couldn't make the game pay. So the great mass of fans in New York lost interest."

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The Question: Why Are Small Towns And Cities Usually Better Football Towns Than New York? (asked At A Meeting Of The N.y. Touchdown Club)