New Britain herald., 1924-10-22
Speaking s of Sports

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 Well. another ysriden player Is reported as deserting and coming back to the New Britain eleven. The latest acquisition is O'Leary.
 The boys are practiclng faithfully for the Waterbury team Sunday. and If they continue to improve Mulli- gan will indeed have a blue team when the final whistle blows.
 Included among the 10000 boys who will see the Yale-Brown game as guests of the university will be 6 good sized delegation from this city.
 Kelly of the Giants is rater the most versatile player in the National league. In the recent world series he played the outfeld. second and first base against the Nationals and did a good job of 1t. He Is also dangerous batsman.
 Penn State loses five stars of last year in Wilson, Bedenk, Schuster, Frank and Palm. There was no better running back In the east last year than Wilson. Several times he saved Penn by long runs through a broken field.
 Harold (Red) Grange, star back of the Illinois eleven, was picked last year for 1923 All-American football honors. There was no ob- iection. There could be none. In the Illinois Michigan game Saturday. Grange displayed what an All American football player is. In that game Grange scored five touch- downs. Today Grange is the out standing football player in the country. Lawrence Perry. noted football expert, is withholding final judgment on Grange, he says, until he sees what Grange can do against a pair of good ends, but the major ity of football fans are ready to rate Grange with the super-stars of the game.
 In the game with Michigan, Grange made four touchdowns in less than 12 minutes of play, he broke away for successive runs of ninety, sixty five, ffty-fve and forty-fve yards for touchdowns, and he carried the ball in twenty-one plays for 4o2 yards. 5
 Grange is twenty-two years old. He made the All-American team in his sophomore year. This is his second big time season. Last year, he made a notable record, for in seven games. he gained 1,2eo yards and twelve touchdowns. This rec ord never has been equalled in the Western Conference. Yet. he is in position this season to better his own mark.
 Grange scored two touchdowns against Butler a week ago Saturday, making total of seven in two games.
 When the football rules commit tee decided to eliminate the tee last winter, they expected to speed up the games, but now that the season of 1924 is well on its way there are any number of coaches ready to go on record in opposition to the new rule. An effort will be made at the close of the season to bring about the abolition of the rule and substi- ute the old one. Coaches agree that the rule makers, in changing the kickoff rule, have eliminated the finest feature of football. Until this year, the kickoff was made from the forty-yard line in the kicker's territory. This means that the ball had to travel sixty yards to crosA the opponents goal line. Kickers with power and drive in their legs did the kicking. Some kicked the ball high in the air for distances of from forty-five to fifty-five yards. This gave their teammates an opportunity to get down under the punt and bring the receiver in his tracks.
 Under the old rules, the receiver would fall behind his interference in running back the bali, spectacu- lar play.
 With no tees this year, most of the kickers are finding 1t impossible to send the ball high in the afr. A low kick travels fast and this is 6 handicap to the kicker's side. The players on the team. kicking off have no time to get down the field under present conditions. Fast and clever receivers are finding it easy to make runs of some distance after kickoff this season. In Saturdays games, two players took kick-offs and ran the remaining distance for touchdownS
 One expert suggests that as the rule now stands the teams might just as well toss coin to see which one will put the ball in play from scrimmage on it's own twentyyard line to start the game.
 The Albany City bowling league will be reorganized at a meeting Sunday afternoon in Odd Fellows temple, Merwin J. Broughman, sec retary, announced today. Whether there will be any changes in the rosttr of clubs, the secretary was unable to say. There are reports that the G. Y. NJ. team, which won the championship last season, will not re-enter the league, but I have