New Britain herald., 1926-09-18

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 Everything is all set for the open ing of the 1926 professional football | season here tomorrow when the All 1 New Britain team takes the field | against the New Haven Blues. Coach | Dave Hayes has the team working hard for the first game and it won't l be his fault if the players don't come through.
 Owing 10 the fact that many of the football fans in this city are unacouainted with Coach Hayes ! connections with football, we take this opportunity of informing them about what he have learned of the coach.
 | played end on the Notre Dame team under the tutelage of the great Knute Rockne. He was a star on that eleven and rated as one of the best ends Notre Dame ever had. After his graduation. he was as sistant coach to knute Rockne and under the able leadership of the
 
 he learned all he knows about foot ball.
 Last year, Coach Hayes played with team composed of former Notre Dame players against the fam ous Pottsville pro team in Phila- delphia. Although specific reports of the game are lacking, it is said that the game resulted in q victory for the Notre Dame team by v to 0 score. Hayes played an end position.
 To those who have witnessed the coach in action, it is apparent that Coach Hayes knows more football than most of the football players in these parts have forgotten. He also has the knack of teaching it to the | men on the team oi which he IS ln !, charge.
 Last night, he made them all sweat but the most impressive thing C a sessions is the fact that every player i and candidate on the team, respects i Hayes and recognizes his gridiron knowledge.
 He started off last night by giving | the team a 45-minute drilling be- fore the black board He figured . out plays and he now limits the . number to eight. He told the team that if the players have the eight ! plays down to perfection, he will be | satisfied.
 He also declared himself on the ] matter of stars. "They are no good ! to this team unless they can prac- tce and I want them here every | time that the team is called to- gether." he said. He is of the opin- ion that man might be a football | star but if he can como to New Britain only on sunday morning In 1 complete ignorance of the plays to be used in the game, he only serves to disrupt the teamwork and flinders more than helps.
 Give me a crew of mon, Is Of them. if that's all you can Cct, and if they want to play football and can como to the practice sessions. l will guarantee that New Britain Will havo a tcam," was the way he put it.
 Joe Rogers. center and last years captain, delivered himself of chest full after Hayes was through on the same subject, He said that two years ago, there was assembled together what was supposed to b2 bunch of "ehoemakars' for team here and it was the best team the city ever had. There weren't any stars on the team either.
 Joe Is full of pep for this year and after he got through speaking, Tom Humphries let out short "He's right" so it seems that all the players are agreed that Hayes has the right dope.
 Tomorrow's game will start promptly at 2:SO o'clock and the fans who want to see the game should be there early to get seats.
 Peter Perokas, the theater baron has forgotten vaudeville and motion pictures for the time being and is now all for football. If this sea- son is successful, Peter says that next year, with the permission ot the park board, he will put bleach- CTS all around Memorial Field. Peter might go as far as to build stadium of his own and without a doubt, he would become the Tex RiCkard of New Britain.
 It's funny thing that a man who didn't know a football from an ele- phant a few years ago, could have become such fan within a few short years. More power to Peter and we hope that he will have great I.t sTcCess this year. Tomorrow, Vicing with the foot ball game fer popularity, is the . third game of the kensington l C,rbin Red SoX series in Kensing- 7 ton. The second game is being ( nlaved todaY and much hinges on ,