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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 NUTMEG ELEVEN i!EADY FOR STAPLETON GAME—NEW BRITAIN BASKETBALL TEAM TO HOLD FIRST PRACTICE SUNDAY MORNING—HIGH SCHOOL MUST WIN REMAINING GAMES TO STAY IN TITLE RUNNING—BLUES BATTLE MERIDEN MOHICANS QUAKERS WILL BE HARD TO STOP EXPERTS UNABLE TO PICK GRID WINNERS THIS WEEK One of Feature Battles Is Clash Between Georgetown and New York University Elevens—Yale and Dart- mouth Also Scheduled to Battle It Out On Satur- day—Cornell Invades New York to Meet Columbia —Pittsburgh Runs of Against Syracuse — Other Contests. New York, Nov. 1 (#—When it| comes to picking the winners, muN‘ of the big eastern games this weck, and not a few of the small one; have the experts throwing up their hands in despair. One of the toughest battles is that between New York university and Georgetown. Najther team has been beaten this scason, and both have, rmarkable scoring records. The Washington institution leads the country, having rolled up 240 points in five games against seven for its opponents. N. Y. U. has scored 176 points, of which 91 have been tallied by Ken Strong. With & big and powerful line, the N. Y. U. defense has halted every running attack sent against it and forced the ememy into the air to score. On the offense no opponent has been able to stop the flashy Strong or his running mates. The | same can be said of the speedy Georgetown backs, who have run circles around the opposing teams and divided their 240 points k-ll\l"llv ly among them. To complicate the already knotty problem, they have had one l’om» mon opponent and both have \\m\ by almost equal scores. On strength alone, N. Y. U. appears to have a silght margin, but on the basis of the weck's practice reports a good bit of this can be shaved off. The | Violet regulars have had trouble stopping their set of speedy substi- tute backs who have been testing them with Georgetown formations. The meeting between Yale and Dartmouth looks like another stand- off unless injuries hamper the Green team. Both have been beaten, Y by Army and Dartmouth by Har- vard, but neither defeat can be charged to any important weakness nor can much be determined about the relative strength of the teams until they scttle it on the ficld. Cornell invades New York to meet Columbia in a third doubtful struggte. . The Ithacan linc looked yery good “when it held Princeton to a lone fleld goul last week, but the | Cornell backs were unable to carry the ball over the goal line. Colum- /bla’s forward woll also has strength while the Lions' backfield has put over a touchdown or more against every opponent. Pittsburgh, beaten twice, Byracuse, which lost Dby point to the powerful team and then was held to a tie by the supposedly weaker Penn State. ! ‘Whether last week's tie can be taken as an indication of weakness on the part of Syracuse or of increased strength of Penn State will not hc decided until Baturday. Penn State, which may or may not have risen from the doldrums in the Syracuse game, takes on twice- ! beaten Notre Dame at Philadelphin’ in the east's leading intersectional contest. If the usual array of stars| were coming from South nd it would be an easy prediction that Notre Dume would win, but Itock- ne’s cohorls have been going no- where this year and there is no solid basis for comparison of the strength or weakness of the two teams. The Lafayette-Washington Jefferson game is another that mains doubtful for numerous diverse reasons. lafayette looked like & world beater until it was tud by Bucknell and beaten by West Virginia. Since then practice at Kas- ton has been a series of shukenps designed to produce a stronger team this week. W. and J. also is without a definite first team as a result of | injurfes to several of its best play- | | | | | | plays and Another int Wabash cast 1o pl ytar ago the Indiana A am tri- { Oberlin and Rocl | by the | state. | trouble in his tin | the umphed 7 to 0. The teams have about their usual strength again this son but whether Wabash can |turn the trick again seems open to question. The smaller collcges of the cast and middle west will continue ir rivalry in a game between st Princeton and Pennsylvania go west to play two other important - tersectional contes 'he Tigers n Ohio Columbus and Penn pl 3 The safest forccusts of the week seem to be that Army will defeat DePauw, Harvard will beat Lehigh and Navy will beat West Virginia Wesleyan. The second string players of all three teams are being count- ed to do most of the work in these games and unless the regulars are called out any one may produce an | upset. BLUES EXPECTING TOUGH OPPOSITION: Local Football Team Scheduled to Meet Meriden Mohicans Plenty of opposition is expected New Britain Blues football team Sunday afternoon when the Mohican cleven of Meriden comes here to oppose the locals. This wiil be the sceond home appearance of the Blues since the season opened. or the past six years, the Mohicans semi-pro teams in this scction of the Whenever they have stacke:d iinst local grid elevens, they put up stiff battles. In three encounters with th the Mohicans have emerg icus’ on two occasions while the odd gume resulted in a win for the New Diritain team. The Blues have the opportunity this Sunday .of tying the count in gumes and because of the strength of this year's te its showing in games already played, the players and their backers fee confident that the Ilues will win On the other hand, the Mohicans are a road team this year and they confident that t : the measure of the ity crew. On their roster appear the nawes of “Skip” Whitchead, | flashy. halfback and “Toots” Kitson, former Meriden high school star. The Blues cxpeet plenty of trouble from this pair. The Meriden stone wall line halfback, up lave Bues team hoasts of a nd Kyeski, Blues wil encounter plenty of | lashes, The Dlues are out to win. isn't any guestion of that. backficld composed of Rhem, Cas- perini, Fengler and Kyeski expect to have plenty of opportunitics to belt Meriden line. George Kyeski, the fullback, Is having one of his Lo rs. He has been a member of the Blue squad since 1921, Kye- ski has the knack of making his own holes even if his line fails him. Artic Westman L. Puppel, wingmien, arc a fast pair and are sure {0 stop the sweeping end runs of the Mohicuns. The Blues will There practice tonight and again Sunday morning in prepa- | vation for the impending battle. NS AT DAYTO ilans are on the Dayton nniversity this back, is one of the country HAW Tight Hawa ball team at vear. Swan best in the a from ore cigarmaker fo fifteen hurdred skilled workmen Mand made For over fifty years the same high standards of tobacco quality have S and woskmanship been maintained e e - been rated as one of the fastest | victor- | w and | The | foot- | DOZEN TEAMS IN RACE FOR TITLE Football Championship Aspire- tions May Be Wrecked New York, Nov. 1 (P—Football championship aspirdtions, sectional or national, that have taken bud in October face the prospect of a kill- ing frost, if not a few destructive | blizzards from opposition territory in November. | The array of college elevens hav- |ing title hopes of nation-wide con- lcern as they enter the final month jof gridiron campaigning, headed for ithe storm areas, has dwindled to a {select dozen or 80 of hardy aggrega- tions, 8 i They can't all weather the big blasts of November but among the foremost teams now are West Point, New York university, Georgetown and Carnegie in the east, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech in the south, Nebraska, lowa, Ohio State and 1llinois in the middle west, Utah lin the rugged Rocky Mountain area and Stanford on the Pacific coast. As it happens there are any num- ber of low pressure areas ahead of ymost, if not all of these outfits. It is pretty well known that the un- {beaten Army faces a succession of [blustery afternoons against such |teams as Notre Dame, Nebraska and Stanford before the final returns are tabulated on the cadet championship claims. All that Stanford has to do in jorder to come east for the Army | battle with s clean college slate is o trim Southern California this Sat- urday and then mop up Santa Clara, Washington and California. 1f there are any “soft spots” there, Pop Warner's men would like to known about it. The hopes of New York university or Georgetown should be abruptly scttled this week. These two scor- ing hurricanes will swirl into each {other and the shock should be felt |for some distance beyond the con- fines of the Yankee Stadium. No matter which wins, however, | it will have additional storm sig- nals ahead. N. Y. U.s remaining list of opponents includes Missouri, {unbeaten Carnegie and the Orcgon Aggies. Georgetown plays Carnegie next weck, then West Virginia, ordham and Detroit, all strong teams. Carnegic plays Notre Dame in between thesc engagements with Georgetown and N. Y. U. There will be a dispute about it it Ohio State finishes with a clean slate and wins the “Big Ten” title. The Buckeyes, after battling Prince- ton this week, play Iowa and Iili- nois, as present the only two re- | maining conference teams neither beaten nor tied. A Vanderbilt uand Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado, two of the out- standing southern conference con- tenders with unblemished records, settle their private argument next weck at Atlanta, The University of Utah Indians have stalked unbeaten through a zood share of their difficult sched- ule. On successive Saturdays they | have disposed of two outstanding | |rivals for Rock Mountain conference honors and they oppose a third, {Colorado college, this Saturday, in what may be the deciding game of the series, Tt will take a lot of master-mind- ing to pick this year's All-America quarterback, at the rate any num- ber of them have been performing {50 far. The Pacific coast has put |the spotlight on Don Williams of |Southern California. The middle west counties with at least one out- standing star in Fred Hovde of Min- nesota while the ecast contributes Howard Harpster, Carnegie captain, 1o the debate. In the south “Can- nonball Clyde” Crabtree, Klorida's quarterback, and Jimmy Armistead. Vanderbilt captain, are offered fqr consideration. Ship Stands Test of Flight Eckener Says Iricdrichshafen. Germany, Nov. | (P —The Zeppelin has stood the iest,” Dr. Hugo Eckener, command- of the Graf Zeppelin, said this iorning before driving off to his liome for a rest. “The fiight over | the ocean and back has proved the vossibility of transoceanic air trafiic. “You should have scen the steam- crs which we met rolling in the We had not the slight- | i with our engines.” | ] During the last part of the flight |the airship had fo pass through a Idense fog, the commander maid, | which made navigation difficult. | The officers were continually forced ’ ess for the position | obtained and from st trouble land this information was [hoth from land stations ships at sea Nebraska Blanketed With Fall of Snow . Neb., Nov. 1 UP—Prema- blizzards, sweeping eastward from the Rockics, had left western ka's ranges blanketed with six | fies of snow today. In many | | places roads were almost impassable. | The storm’s radius extended northaard to Sioux Falls, £ D, | here Senator Charles Curtis, publican viee presidential candidate, his first glimpse of the scason’s I | zot snow It was the worst blizzard on Ne- Lraska's records for this time of year. Fear was expressed for the Safety of stock in open ranges. LE FOR COLUMBUS Princeton, N. J. Nov. 1 (UP)— The Princeton football team will leave tonight for the Ohio State gime at Columbus Saturday with- out having scrimmaged this week. The probable Princeton lineup fol- | tows Lawler and Stinson, ends; Hockenbury and Barfield. tackles; Moore and Green, guards; Howe (C) | Center; Norman. quarter: Wittmer and Bennett, halfbacks; Miles, | fullback. The current football edition at Pennsylvania g'nning to shape up as one of the most powerful 'mmsi in the east this season. Natu attention than their teammates. a powe eleven always has some star players who get a bit more Paul Scull, man shown kicking here, is considered onc of the besf in the east. m in kicking down. Paul Mur his version of how 1l carrier and a who is reaching cven and does it s be- | buc rful foothall the young He is especially usctul to the Penn field goals phy, a halthack shown below giving a stiff arm should be used, is a nifty nice receiver of passes. Joe Olexy, for a pass. plays end for the Penn well, URGE CHANGES IN AMATEUR RULINGS | Bitter Controversies Expected to Aris¢ at Annual Meeting New York, Nov. 8 (U'P)—Several radical changes in the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union will be vocated at the forticth annual con- vention of that body at New York on November 18, 19 and 20. Among the more changes are the following: (1)—A college or university lete may clect to compete for school or club, but not for hoth. (2)—A swimmer who aceepts a position as lifeguard therchy di qualifies himself for further comp tition as an amateur. (3)—Disqualification of any ath lete who allows his name to be 1sed to advertise the goods or apparatus of any firm, manufacturer or agent either for compensation or other- wise, The efforts of the central tion of the A. A. U. with b ters at Chicago to have the written in the A. A. U. constitution may cause a bitter controversy. rule, it passed, would prevent track star or swimmer from re senting a club during th competes for his college. words, athletes wbo now have fhe privilege of competing for hoth their school and club in most sec- tions of the country, would be al- lowed to compete only for their school during their college carerrs as doubtless none would elect 19 represent a club while attending college. Eastern and western delegate douthedly will fight the legislation of such a rule fo the Jast ditch. Most of the support of the proposed change will come from the middle west where a siniilar rule has been in effect in the Big Ten Conferenc: for several years. It will be recalled that Herb Schwa University of Wisconsin shot putter, was harred from college con tition under this vule, Schwarze was nnjustly viled ont as he never actually wor Tilinois A. C. emblem. but trained and travelled with the €. athletes. The pa age of this a severe hlow to the California clubs which their athletes fromi college sfars The New York A. C., Newark A. C. Boston A. A., Los Angeles A, C. and Olympic club track and field teams are made up almost entirely of col- lege stars still in competition. The rule would not prevent a college athlete from representing a cl after he completed his collegie competition. but would apply during his four years in coll If such a rule had he last scason of 1 ho would b jurisdiction w 1 Syracuse and New York my Quinn, Holy Cross and York A. C.: Bud Spencer. Sianfor and Olympic club; Henry Commings Virginia and Newark A ¢ King, 8tanford and Olymipie elub; lee Barnes, Southern Calitornia and Los Angeles A. C.; 14 Hinim, Geor- gia Tech and New York A ("; Char- ley Borah, Southern (al and Los Angeles A. ;. and numerous others. The advantage is that it would force to develop their aihletes non college men and and youngz men. Most of pean athletes are deve manner. important ath- associa - dquar- any In other un an VA » would be castern 1 ft most of nin effe S0 com A, MVmHI P of such a role clubs rom amo working boys Euro- i in this letie lop, | merely only | | penses wer " national | azainst athletes [ [ and Olympie champion in that « | and Bob Ling Cop, his | frames and the v trule The | { | | | i i One of the t st handicaps of such a rule is that it would stifle competition amoiz the countr outstanding athleies, working hard- ships on many men who would not | able to compete unless their ex- rayed by a club, chairman of the A swimming com- | advocates the passage of the | h would bar any swimmer | a lifegua has alw who_allow rames to be used for advertis poses, but the rule now applies to those who John mittee, rule wh who ser The A. s ruled g pur only notaa'y Stanford high jumper ent MeAllister, crstwhile “Fly: dlowed their names to 1 in the cndorsement of a bran headwear after the Olympic W legislation is un- doubtedly directed at them veral Bob King, th vsed of USE HIDDEN BALL PLAY Washingion, Nov. 1 (UP)— Georgetown University will use hidden I pl mixed with a fol ward pass attack as its main threa 1inst New York Universit Lou Little, Gy own coach, Jdeveloped the hidden ball play cven more than Lou Young, Penn- sylvania coach. i | their | reeeive compenation | thae | FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Associated T Chicago — Young Jack Thomp- | son, California, stopped Danny Gor- don, Philadelphia, (2). K. 0. White, : and Owen Ariz, drow. (8). neisco — Frankie Murray, Philadelphia .ontpointed [ Imperial, Philippines, (10). Cincin Ohio — Ma e, Pa., oufpointed Irish falley, ~ Detroit, (10). Marty O'Haga, Detroit, outpointed Tiobbi McGowan, Dayton, Ohio, (6). Harry | Harris, Adrian, Mich., outpointed | Chris FFenton, Cincinnati, (6). i Cordes, Detroit, outpointed | Baker, Terre Haute \Ind., (6). B | Meyers, Cincinnati, outpointed Jeff Haynes, Dayton, Ohio, (6). Nellingham, Wash., — Jock Ma- | ne, St. Paul, outpointed “Battling | im” Ryan, Bellingham, (6). Wilmington, Cal. — Santiago Zor- illa, Panama, technically knocked lout Billy De Vos, Wilmington, (3). | By v hoenix. e Strub, | Steve s HUDDLE Middletown, Nov. 1 15ill Wood has abandone calling o his Wesle team and adopted the hudd first time this year. Seerct was held yesterday in pry for Saturday Trinit ame, signal football for the ractice paration HAVE REVIS Hamilton, N. Y., Nov. 1 (U'l') —A revised Colgate team will face Wabash fn the interscetional game iturday, Coach Abell ind cated when e made several changes in the lincup yesterday, M 1 LAY SMU university play in after Thanks- s being consid- | VANDY MAY ¥ | Southern Methodist has asked Vanderbilt to Dallas the Saturday giving. The dffer | and points after touch- | Phelps, ! Alfredo | (UP)—Coach | INUTMEG ELEVEN ALL SET TO BATTLE IN STAPLETON juries Reported. HIGH TEAM HAS TOUGH SCHEDULE Must Win Four Remaining Games to $tay in Running Yollowing the defeat last week of the Stamford High school football team by the Warren Harding High team of Bridgeport, 6 to 0, the only undefeated high school team in the state is Torrington and if this team meets defeat, the New Britain High school's claims for the state title are as good as the others provided the Red & Gold eleven wins the remain- ing- four games on its schedule. The team will have the hardest of tasks to accomplish, however, be- cause two of the teams to be met have undefeated records, and the other two have lost only one game. Adams High schodl team of Massa- chusetts, the eleven which comes to Willow Brook park Saturday after- noon has not been defeated in five starts, New Haven Hillhouse which comes here the following Saturday for the first game of the Triangular league series was defeated 7 to 0 by Hart- ford. Vermont Academy, it is said, has exactly the same eleven that de- feated New Britain last year and has not been defeated so far this | vear. Hartford Public High school, New Britain's arch rival, lost one game, a thriller, to RBridgeport | Central High by a 27 to 18 score. Coach Cassidy is drilling the team on blocking and tackling and the men are showing Probably the player who showed to Middlcton who has a clever way of laying his man out when he hits him. If this department of play is improv- ter chance in the coming games. The three best tacklers on the team at the present time are “Gun- |ny” Nelson, end; Frank Casalle, ; and Captain Louis Landino, s defensive half back. Seve eral men on the line |and many times lose ground on the tackle. Shortly before the game last week Coach of the great improvement in play shown | regular guard until the last two games. He said Potts was a strong | oftensive man and that he would give | him much opportunity to show his ability in the game. Joe came up to | the couch’s opinion in his play dur- | ing the second half. Couch Cassidy has the following !linemen and they all appear to be of | equal ability when they get into the |zames: Frank Casale, Mikalauskas, Dumin, Kuhs, Potts, Ludwinowicz, yimanski, Gwasda and O'Brien. His ckfield must be picked from the | following players: Captain Landino, | Alex Zaleski, Mike Grip, Eddic Sow- ika, Henry Kraszewski, Billy Ross, Al Middicton, Herbert Carlson and Andy Wesoly, Two of these quarter: imrm landino and Ross;: threc are fullbacks, Sowka, Middleton and Carlson, und the others are backs. Coast Guard Three members of the Kentucky football squad arc marricd. They are Squlers, an cnd: Brown, a i(:n‘kh', and Walters, a guard. improvement | the best advantage in blocking was | d, the tes wi ave pt- | um will have a much bet ) ympia varsity scored two touche i downs against the reach and grab | Cassidy spoke | by Joe Potts who has been | Local Crew Faces Most Severe Test of Entire Season Next Sunday—Staten Island Team Is Best In Many Years—Roster of Names Includes Some of Coun- try’s Biggest College Stars — McLean of George- town Joins New Britain Squad This Week—No In- Entering into real major league football, the Nutmeg team of this city faces the hardest test of the present season Sunday in Stapleton, 8. 1. when it stacks up against the fast team representing that city, The Staten Island crew has played on cven terms with teams such as the Frankford Yellow Jackets, the New York Yankees and Giants and others while it has swept aside all opposition offered by Atlantic City and elevens of like caliber. On the roster of the team are the names of some of the greatest col- lege stars in the country among these is Wyckoff of Georgia who for several past seasons one of the (leading scorers in the south. Hanson of Syracuse is another star who is expected to give the locals plenty of trouble. Manager Henry Zehrer hasn't completed arrangements yet for the trip but an announcement of final plans is expected tomorrow. He is negotiating for a stop at Berlin of the excursion train to New York from Springfield. If he is success- ful, many will mgke the trip. The New Britafn team with its record of nc. having been scored on this year so far, is confident, despite the strength of the Staple- ton team, that it will come through with glory Sunday. Last season, the “Staps” defeated the All-New Brit- ain team 7 to 0 in one of the best games played in the Staten Island city all season. The Nutmeg line is heavy and ef- ficient and is being counted on to make the Stapleton backs work plefity to make any progress at P “The backfield has shown plenty of work In carrying the ball and the {forward passing attack has .been highly developed. A large number of local fans will see the game in Stapleton whether the excursion makes the stop or not. York, (UP)—The freshman eleven in the last scrimmage before the Cornell game Saturday, but the freshmen ripped the varsity defense to pieces when they got the ball and scored one touchdown. BATTLE TO A TIE New Haven, Nov. 1 (UP)—Yale coaches, using Dartmouth plays, battled the crippled Eli varsity to & 12-12 tie in yesterday's scrimmage. Garvey and Hober, ks, Oldt, end, and Hall, guard, did not play be- canse of injuries which the coaches fear may hamper them in Satur- day's encounter with the Big Green, CONTINUES DRILLING TEAM ew York, Nov. 1 (UP)—Coach Chick Meehan continucd to drill the »w York University football team defensive tactics today In prep- jon for the meeting with the high scoring Georgetown University cleven. Using Georgetown plays the scrubs scored a touchdown on the varsity i yesterday's practice. in UNDECIDED ON BACKS Tthac Y., No 1 (UP)— Coach Gil Dobie is still undecided {on the two men who will start at halfback against Columbia Saturday, Howard Johnson will be at quarters back and Dietrich at Fullback, k and Maurice Johnson alters nated at one halfback yesterday, and Kanich, Scott und Lristol took turns at the other. Oh, Man! 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