The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-23
FOOTBALL FANS DUE FOR TRIMMING
 IN NEW COMBINE
We're All Good Fellows" When Rival New Haven Managers
 Get Together"
(By Pat Sullivan)

Every year at the end of the season the fans have been treated to a lot of bunk" about prospects for a big team to represent New Haven on the grid iron and glowing pictures have been painted about the class of teams which would be brought to the Elm City to furnish op- position to the proposed "wonder team the following year.
 To vary the monotony of these stories whic hhave always served as good copy for local sport writers during the dull season between the end of the football season and the beginning of the winter sports local scribes have facts instead of fiction to work on.
 Early last week the local dailies car ried ''sensa tiona" account of what our old friend, MT. P. T. Barnu1n would characterize as the most thrilling and dramatic episode in the history of the city when the managers of both the Will Hams and Glee Club football teams com- bined to make the most formidable az gregation of pigskin chasers that ever pranched over the gridiron in this sec ton of the country at least. So that no section. of the city would feel that 1t had been slighted the promoters of this dare devil, breath taking proposition decided to name this marvellous creation the New Haven team.
 The only trouble the promoters expect ed to have with the team was to find op- position of sufficient strength to make the games attractive and not runaway con- tests. The only teams that would furnish what might have even the sernblance of a contest for this marvellous combination sporting the colors of the city of "Old Films and New Ideas" are the Provi- dence Steam Rollers," the Buffalo. Ro- chester, Akron, O., and Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs, which, no doubt, would make a very interesting preliminary sea- son. But. shades of Gordon Brown, Ted Coy and Eddie Mahon, if 1t were only possible to get a team together like these heroes led in the good old days, what a lot of worry would be taken off the mind of the promoters here, and what an event. full season 1t would be indeed.
 It certainly makes mighty interest ing story, the origin of the idea of this mighty football team although there seems to be little difference of opinion on this subject
 During the summer time or to be exact in the early part of July, you perhaps recall that we had a very hot spell of weather just around that time, the man. agers of the Williams and Glee Club teams met i'll a casual way and started to talk football. At the start of the con- versation one manager told the other what kind of a team he would have If he only had a few men playing on the other team. The more they talked the more enthusiastic they became and be- fore they knew 1t themselves right there before their very eyes was team of football players that would make every coach of a college team green with envy.
 There is no question about 1t, the pro- motors of the team did every thing pos sible to make this ''Wonder team" a sue cess and kept the secret to themselves until last week, when 1t was made pub lie. The football fans of the city read all about it and then started to laugh Well, what can you do with bunch that cant appreciate the efforts of some peo- pie to give the city a real football team to back at dollar throw with no wal going on. Then again what can you dc with people that read all the good things press agent has to say and then - ! laugh