Judge, 1931-09-26 · page 11 of 40
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# Judge Magazine Football Satire Analysis This page contains two satirical pieces about American college football culture circa the 1920s-30s. **Top cartoon**: A woman in domestic attire manages household chores while holding a football, captioned "She's a sap! Married and still working!!" This mocks the era's gender expectations—the joke being that a married woman should have quit her job, yet she's still active/involved (here represented by football interest). **"Forecast of the Football Season"**: Rex Deane's column satirizes predictable football season tropes: dominant teams winning by enormous scores, Notre Dame's consistent strength, coach Rockne's prestige, Columbia's unrelated rowing success, references to "Daddy" Alonzo Stagg, Hollywood's inevitable football hero film, scalped Yale tickets, and the mass production of "All American" players. The satire skewers sports media clichés, institutional hypocrisy (colleges condemning "overemphasis" after lopsided wins), and cinema's formulaic sports narratives—all presenting football season as a predictable, manufactured spectacle rather than genuine competition.
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~ acannon os FRI O NEMEC “She's a sap! Married and still working!!" Forecast of the Football Season Coursans will start the season off with a 65-0 victory over some col- lege whose name doesn't really mat- ter. Stanford, U. C., Army, Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard will do like- wise. Notre Dame will nose out its first slight margin and the boys Irish are slipping. zain be referred to as the Mighty Ator There will be a controversy between Pop Warner and two other fellows. ‘The president of Siwanoy / tural Institute will come out fl edly against overemphasis in football, all this after Siwanoy has taken an 89-0 shellacking from Wabash Theo- logical Seminary. There will be at least three colleges on the Pacific Coast who will be re- ferred to as the Sun-kissed ns, Western Mastodons and California Comets. Notre Dame will beat the Army and a cartoon will be published sho’ ing a shadowy head of Rockne ga down in approval at his boys. rere will be a player called Priz- xwsevlilz on the Fordham team. Columbia will lose its first big game and everybody will be busy pointing out what a swell rowing record she has, There will be numerous references to Alonzo Stagg, calling him the Daddy of Football, the Grand Old Man of the Pigskin, Foothall’s Patri- arch, ete., and Chicago will drop all of its big games. Notre Dane will beat U.S.C. and all the Eastern sport writers will try and make us believe that South Bend is part of the Atlantic seaboard. There will be at least a hundred broken gin bottles on the road to New Haven. There will be a movie made in which the hero will win the game in the last minute of play and then go over to the nd stand and kiss the girl. Despite having played four grueling quarters, the hero’s hair will be unruffled. His pal will stay back in the hospital and listen in without running a temperature. There will be at least three hun- dred All Americans wandering around the country by Xmas. Tickets will be as hard to get as ever and several Yale undergrads will be accused of scalping. —Rex Draxe “T'll be home and get dinner right away, darling; I’ve been visiting a sick friend!” 9 comicbooks.com