The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-09
H, s. FORWARD PASS New York Sun Says the Local Eleven Showed Great Skill
 at New Play, BETTER THAN N. Y. TEAMS Manual Training School smarting Un- der Crushing Defeat--Locals Play
 Stamford Saturday.
BETTER THAN N. Y. TEAM!

Says the New York Sun of Novem. Der &: The coaches of the Brooklyn teams refuse to accept tho poor show, ing of the Manual eleven against New Haven as indicative of the former strength, or rather weakness. Bras mas Hall beat New Haven by scorq of to 0, and Manual confidently ex pected at hast to do as we'll. It li, assumed upon pretty good ground; that Manual must have been iD ( slump and that better things will b9 swiftness of the New Haven attacl carried the Brooklyn team off It's fec from the first and they seemed unabl to recover from their first surprise The one department in which Man ual was particularly weak was tackl ing, and Coach Dickler has been dl recting good part of his attention tl this ever since the game. New Has ven showed a skill in using the for! ward pass which has not been de{ veloped by any New York schof team. This play was worked for diS tances of 30 and S5 yards and wer with the precision of & machine"
 New Haven's pride, as the N. H. I s. eleven is designated by the Net York World. has been putting forth brand of football, that has brougA much praise to the New Haven higl school The local contingent by play ing remarkably strong ball again Brooklyn teams has created quite stir amongst the interscholastl leagues of New YYrk. Although tN local athletes were defeated by Era mus by to score, due to the ei tended walt before the game. th{ showed that they were still in the ras when, under proper arrangement! they trounced the Manual Trainii High, considered as strong as EraR mus, by an,1S to 0 score.
 Before that contest New Yof papers were predicting an easy VI. for the Manual school and when tA Elm City lads completely swept thd off their feet and walloped the Broos lyn school severely, the excuse of ts school Is that the team must hal been on the throes of slump. It VI only an exhibition of the local higl usual star playing, which failed
 show itself against Erasmus, that VI witnessed by the Brooklyn people al that alone was responsible for ths overwhelming victory.
 The article in yesterdays NJ York Sun about the skill of the M Haven contingent in performing tht forward passes. has resulted forf great part, from the spectacular fl ward pass of Muse. The colored ef of the local eleven can hurl the p skin with great speed for 40 var The ball travels in spiral fashion with great accuracy every time
 athlete attempts 1t. Aside from the team has been coached continu ly on their passes and every man alert and ready to perform his part the play. The New York teams hl
 had hard work breaking up tn l loi Wdiu PdpoCoB diu SoLblutl cal students the best at it.
 Manual Training showed quite
 reversal of form Saturday when tI
 turned about and also secured ans
 to victory, besting the Commerl
 High eleven. Erasmus also admit
 tered crushing defeat to the C} mercial school. which Is scheduled meet the local high ThanksgiV day. Erasmua> kept up its good ord Saturday, tk winning over Tos send Harris by 46 to score.
 The local players will probably ,d more start work on the gridlron [ week, after they had made up { |. deficiencies. A brilliant finish is pected for the local lads, AS they K return to the game with a venged g and make up for lost time. Stam
 High will be at Yale field, Saturdal
 Bergin played at quarter for Pril ton, Saturday, while Messlnger Y Bacon performed on the Yale Fri { man against Princeton 1912. three are N. H. IT. S. graduates.