The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-01
STEAM ROLLERS TO
MEET ANNEX AGAIN
(New Haven Journal-Courier.)

(N6W haven JOurnal-COur1eT.)
BY outbidding the management lof
the American Chain Co. eleven at
Bridgeport and by offering the largest
inducements ever given to a semi
professional team to play in New
Haven, Manager Michael F. O'Connor
of the Annex football team has ar
ranged for the Providence Steam
Rollers to play again in this city Sun
day, the contest to be staged at the
Annex field.
Negotiations were started by the
American Chain Co. team of the Park
City to play the Steam Rollers in
Bridgeport Sunday. and when Man
ager O'Connor heard of this he imme-
diately got in touch with the Provi-
dence representatives for a return
game here this week. He was imme-
dtately informed that the Steam Roll
ers would not come to New Haven
unless they were guaranteed $500
with privilege of SO per cent. of the
receipts. Manager O'Connor decided
that as the eleven is unquestionably
the best semi-pro team in the East
and as the Annex aggregation in his
opinion are yet still able to win the
New England championship, he ac-
cepted the demands. and as a result
the New Haven football fans will
have another opportunity of seeing
one of the best football games to be
contested in this city in years
1t will be remembered that the
Steam Rollers have already beat the
Annex twice, once in Providence by
the score of 9 to 0, and then again in
this city by the score of 6 to 0. The
team which defeated the Annex con-
sisted of a set Of ex-college stars,
three of whom were All-American
choices, and in one of the finest
games ever pulled off here, the visitors
could only roll up a to score.
However, the Annex figure that as
a result of the game in Bridgeport
Sunday, when the New Haven boys
tied the Chain company team, which
two other New Haven elevents could
not do, they are in better condition
| now than ever before, and when the
Providence team arrives here next
Sunday the New Haven players ex-
pect to defeat Pollard's charges,
thereby winning the New England
championship.
In preparation of the game Coach
Stanwood. ex-captain of Colby, and
star tackle Of the, Annex team, wit
give a detailed lecture this evening
| at practice, and it is expected that
this should result in a general i'm
proven1ent of the combination. Stan
wood believes thu Annex eleven to
have the material, and bases his as
sumption on the brand of football the
Four Corner lads put up against the
strong Steam Rollers a week ago
Sunday at Lighthouse Point, and also
i the manner in which the Annex came
back IN the fourth period in Bridge
port Sunday In the contest against the
| Park City Chain team, thereby tying
the score.
Ragged tackling at times and fu1nb-
ling and the general faults of the
players will be gone into at length,
but Coach Stanwood will direct most
of his ATTENTION to improving the
aerial attack. Until last Sunday the
Annex attempted little forward pass
ing, and when one was occasionally
pulled off it went wrong.
At the end of the third period last
| Sunday Coach Stanwood insisted that
the forward pass be used frequently,
and three Of them were attempted.
! and netted the Annex considerable
! ground During the entire game be-
fore this, as was the case in all other
games, the Annex have INDUCED in,
straight football of line buclcing ma
ture and have unjustly imposed too
much work on Bradford, Klaproth.
Stuh1man and Dunn.
The Annex backfeld, Judging from
the way 1t ripped and tore Its way
through the American Chains of
Bridgeport in the last quarter, has
ben developed to a praiseworthy de-
gree. It now, makes up one of the
NEST ground gaining machines in the
state, but Gtanwood believes there is
such a thing as overworking back
field, and with a man like Dave Dunn
to- throw forward passes there Is no
reason why the aerial attack should
not he perfected.
| Game next Sunday.