New Britain herald., 1919-09-12
YEAR IN H. s. ATHLETICS
Teams in All Branches Will Bid
 for State HOnOrS

If the plans of Physical Director William G. Moorehead work out right the New Britain High school faces a banner year for school athletics With |splendid material in hand for every |sport, both indoor and outdoor, the director is confident that excellent re- suits will be the fruits of the bids for state honors in 1919 and 1920.
 Indications are that the football squad will encounter little difficulty in taking the triangular and state cham apionships' this season as one of the fastest, heaviest and most experienced #squads to yet don the red and gold is , in training daily at Walnut Hill park. With Dave Dunn's coaching the team ! has bright prospects.
 For basketball the school has Brink, #Bunny, Taylor and Burns of the regu- lar last years squad, as well as d %nunber of members of the second &team and many newcomers who give Hpromise of a good showing during the |8 &New Haven High schools have both &been weakened by the loss of many of their best players by graduations last kJune while the local school lost but Xtwo-Woodford and Kehoe. Most 4promising of the new men who are to Joe seen on the floor this year are Leo |Gaffney and Dalson.
 It is probable that this winter will bee the adoption of two new branches pf athletics, ice hockey and swimming. 3FNor some time past the director has been endeavoring to organize teams in hese popular winter sports, but for ack of suitable places for the holding bf the events the attempts have not been successful. The school has many excellent ice skaters and hockey players and interclass ice hockey sames have been popular for several rears Merritt Taylor a member of he school basketball team, has won 1onors in Y. M. c. A. aquatics for sev- ,ral years and should be help to the wimming class if one is organized. Burns and Hayes are capable swim *ners and their ability might easily be Utilized under MT. Moorehead's plan Q add more Iaurels to the local school.
 After an absence from the school or a year of the great national pas ime, baseball is expected to appear
 ext spring with more candidates and with better prospects than has greet d a baseball squad here in several easons. Among the veterans of other Ugh school teams still in the school
 nd who are expected to give a good ccount of themselves on the diamond
 ext year are: Burns, first base; trifffn, catcher; Bunny and Sullivan, elders. Unless a "phenom" shows up,
 owever, the pitching staff will prob bly, be somewhat weaker than in thers years.
 Though not one of the popular ports at the Franklin square institu- on, track events promise to be one of he most successful branches of high chool athletics this year. Frank De- aney of St. Josephs Y. M. A. A. is onsidered one of the fastest 100 yard
 1en in the state, and Bill Burns is a
 ose second In this length. Griffin,
 Bunny and Frank Kerin are also fast
 00 yard men and Brink should \do
 ood in the longer races. For high
 lmp1ng Doerr is expected to uphold
 he record of the local school in a
 reditable manner. These track men
 re all veterans of at least one year
 md in addition to the ones named
 here are many Boomers"