New Britain herald., 1926-11-09
ALL-MW BRITAIN MEETS
 HARTFORD ON THURSDAY
Bitter Rivals to Clash in First Game Armistice Day Afternoon and in Second Thanksgiving Day Morn ing = Biggest Football Sensation of the Year in This Section-Unable to Switch Date of Game Both Teams Ready For GruelIng Fight

The Hartford Blues, George F. Mulligan's entry in the National league of professional teams and Captain Eddie Barnikow's All-New
 Britains, will meet Thursday after noon in the mammoth Velodrome in East Hartford, in the first of the
 series of two games. The contest will be the resumption of the foot
 ball feud of years standing between Hartford and New Britain. Both cities boast of the best teams of re-
 cent years, and the meeting should bring out great gridiron battle. The followers of the teams have been "hot" all season for a meeting, and for time it looked as though this could not be arranged. How ever. several matters were straight
 ened cut amicably by the opposing managers last week, and so the big game is on. The teams will meet for Inc second game of the series on Thanksgiving morning, at the | NeloGrome. After somewhat dis corcerting start, the Mulligan Blues
 of Hartford, seems to have their winning stride, recent victories over the Brooklyn Lions and the Canton Bulldogs attesting to this opinion of the followers of the team.
 The Hartford Blues are coached by Dr. Jack Keough. a member of the University of Pennsylvania coaching staff. and regarded as one of the keenest of football mentors in the cast. The team having grasped the type of football instlled by Coach keough, seem to be off to great cleanup season from now un- til the snow flies. The ends of the club are Grafton O'Connell. formerly of Boston College, and Cowboy" Webbcr. one of the few foot ball ends who sports top lip adornment. The tackles are looked after by Nichols and Wcrwaiss, the latter New
 Haven boy.
 One of the guards Bull" keenan, the largest football player in cap tivity, who tips the Fairbanks at some over 300 pounds. A New Brit ain boy who sported the football togs of the Nutmegs and the All
 New Brtains for years, will play against his "buddies' Thursday, in
 the person of Red" O'Neil, who
 learned football while with the
 Marines in France and later cap- tained the Connecticut Aggies for
 two successive seasons. O'Neu. is center, and has the distinction of displacing Gildea. former Holy Cross star.
 The Blues have a backfield that
 most any team in the country could
 feel proud of. At quarterback there lis Corsan. 2 member of the Brook lyn National league (basebalD and
 Shrimp" Foley, star for four years at Suffield and Syracuse. Brian, of Grove City, a kicker de luxe, Joe
 Manning, last years captain of Fordham and Lou smythe, a veteran
 of many a campaign in the National league. and today one Of the hard est crashing fullbacks playing the
 game. Manager Mulligan has pro- vided his club with a swell array of substitutes among them Hank Zehrer. former captain of the New
 Britain high school team and last
 year with the All-New Britains, and Vic. Radzevich of Torrington who played quarterback for the All-New Britains last season.
 Manager Daley and Owner Peter
 Perakos of the All-New Britains
 have gathered a galaxy of football
 players that top anything seen in
 these parts in several seasons. The
 exhibition showed Sunday against the Sub Base team of New London i proved revelation to the home