The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-04
Three Callahan Boys Are Football Captains
Tim Reelected at Yale, His Brother Mike Will Lead Princeton Eleven and Young Arthur Is Chosen
 As Pilot of Lawrence Eigh School

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 4.---Johrl Timothy Callahan cf Lawrence, Mass. was unanimously reelected Captain fof the Yale football eleven for next fall at an enthusiastic meeting of the -6 players who toon the gridiron against Princeton and Harvard this fall at the Y Club last nlght. CaIla- nan will be a senior next year. He prepared for Yale at Andover land made the team his sophomore year here, playing centre on Blacks eleven, which defeated Harvard and Princeton. In the spring of his sopho- more year, 1917. with the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the navy. late; winning q commission as an Ensign He served abroad and in South Amer ca and was iu ti.e navy two, years setting out just in time to return to college this faII, when he became Cap tain.
 Captain Callahan combines with his playing ability great personal popu- lariJy, and the announcement of the election last night met with the ap- proval of the entire university. He is q high stand man in his studies and in all ways IS an ideal Captain.
 I'm Callahan was the first junior football Captain since Hinkey.
 Yale will lose only four regulars from this years team by graduation Garter Galt. right guard, who play ed on ''Cupe' Blacks eleven, as wen as this years team; Babe Allen, the veteran right end, who played with the late Alex Wilson in 1915, as well as this year; Joe Neville, who scored the touchdown which beat Harvard i'll 1916, and Jim Braden, the plungin3 back, who kicked two goals from the field against Princeton and one against Harvard th.s fall.
 Substitutes of varsity caIibre who will not return are Barclay Robinson the end, and "Chet'' La Roche, the emergency quarterback of 1916, whose splendid work in the Princeton and Harvard games of that year marks a bright spot in Yale football annals.
 Returning will be a strong nucleus to help Capt. Callahan bring back the formber prestige of Yale on the grid iron. Some statistics sent out by the Yale News with the pre-war classes of members of the team led to a misunderstanding as to those who would or would not return.
 Some, for instance, were given as of the class of 1918 and others of the
 
 the only degree any member of the team except Braden, Neville, Allen and Galt could get next June would be a so-called "war degree"
 These war degrees were given in large numbers to men who did not come back, but those who did want to finish their courses and the uni versity encoura ges the men to try for a real degree instead of a war de- gree.
 So the veteran forwards who will be eligible next year include Spider Retnhart, the left end; Dickens and Walker, the tackles; Johnnie Acosta, the left guard, and Capt. Callahan and Bill Calvin, centres.
 Then there will be "Fido'' Kemp ton, quarterback; Thorne Murphy, quarterback and halfback; Bob Lay and Mae AIdrich. halfbacks, and Fred Webb. fUllback.
 Yale men were particularly eIated over the announcement that Thorne Murphy, son of the late Mike AIur- phy, would return. He is one of the best drop kickers ever developed here, and only an injury to his ankle in the Boston College game kept him off the team when 1t faced Princeton and Harvard.