New Britain herald., 1924-11-12
s e akin 2 of Sports

1 SPS onAA&$ { l of Sports { sssssssyssssssvssssssssst The All-New Britain management IS frantically endeavoring to get a new backheld lineup for Sundays game with Bridgeport, One new back Of known quality has been secured and now the man agement seeks quarterback. reaiiz- Ing that Tullys absence has shot has backfeld to pieces. Last night a telegram was sent to far off Shreveport, La,, in an effort 10 sign up "Bo" McMillan for Sun days game.
 The famous "Bo", AlI-American quarter n few seasons ago, is coach- ing Centenary college which plays Boston college in Boston this Sat- urday.
 The management has offered "Bo" good sized lump of coin to remain over the weekend and take the as- signment here.
 However, there's nothing to indi- cate that McMillan will even answer he query, !
 Bridgeport High lost to Stamford yesterday 13 10 3.
 New Britain High now claims to be all set for Hartford Saturday. Hartford is all set too, but fears 1t may be 'set" further since report cards are given out at the school to- morrow and 1t is feared that several Star players may be declared in eligible because of scholarship diffi- culties.
 IL is hoped here that such will not be the case as New Britain wants to beat Harford's best, and not a team of subs.
 Trinity closes her football season Saturday with Middlebury on the Hill top.
 Au-Hartford is the latest football outfit, it being a combination of the Meriden and Hartford outfits with the following in the lineup:
 Scgretta, Blanchard, ends; Lilly, Hunt, Heldt, tackles; Millerich, Gre by, Whitcficld, guards; Pjura. Holm- sren, center: Brennan quarterback; Hickey, Carpenter. Stuedtner, Brad ford, Yensick, Lamereoux, Ed Lan- dcrs, backs.
 Walter Hapgood Of the Rochester club is trying to purchase the Bridgeport franchise in the Eastern league.
 Wcsleyan grads and undergrads are up in arms at the consistent los- ing of the team and loud wall for new coaching methods has been sent up.
 Football is getting harder to fig ure than what a woman will do driving a new, slistenins black fiv- ycr in trafic.
 Back in the days when men were men and only the soprano singers wore knickers, football machines cattcred down the road of prophecy with some respect for form and the feelings of red-nosed alumni.
 The Big Three were the main works. Princeton, Yale and Harvard played football. What the boys played in outlaying districts was nothing but a cheap imitation, q shoddy substitute designed to snare the rural smacker.
 When Walter Camp stsrted the vicious practice of assembling an All-Amcriea eleven he bought a commuters ticket between Cam bridge aud New Haven with a 1o- minute stop-over privilege at Nas- sau, N. J.
 One year player appeared on Walters All-America who had not twisted a vertebra or pulveized a mclar for one of the Rig Three. This created a bigger sensation than the aage debut of Eva Tanguay in flesh colored tights.
 Back in 1906, about the time when the plain people in the hills were getting reconciled to modern plumbing. someone decided to cross football with basketball, the result Of which was the forward flip.
 This piece of piCskin Burbanking did more to put the big and little colleges on an even footing than all the high-salaried halfbacks, non- studying tackles and free-board ends that ever loated through the winter semester.
 Right away the pass reduced the baby elephants and the trained sea COWS to a minus value and elevated the nirnble ankle and the sure catch to position of ornate, it not gaudy, importance.
 Little teams that hadn't been able to merit an agate line head in the weekend sporting news began crowding the ship subsidy bill and the Roosevelt campaign of page one.
 Nowadays the unexpected is the
 and -ARGAY ts