New Britain herald., 1927-10-26
FOOTBALL DRAWS
 ANDY'S ATTENTION
He Had Been a Sub But Gets
 Into the Game at Last
(Contributed)

! '@ti -'hiS -hllu.
 ] Its too bad you had to spend last 1 Saturday afternoon catching up on i your housework and so missed See | ing out football team, the Never | wins, play the Centipedes. and ! swamp Us 2l to nothing. (This be | Ing the lowest score We could eet.) i The Neverwins have played seven games, winning all but six. and with | this record behind us our team trots i out on the field, to do it's best to l run up q score and the Centipedes ragged.
 1 The following will tell you how ] | stands as a coming Red" Grange. ! Being a sub, I wasn't called upon to do my stuff until the last half, when one of our boys makes room for me by getting himself knocked colder than a cake of ice. The end i opposing me was a fella named ''Lanky" West, so nicknamed be- cause he was a little over six feet built like stove pipe. and as grace ful on his pins as a month old colt.
 He was so tall that I has 10 look at him twice to sec if he was stand 1 ing on stilts or something. (Once the referee warned him 10 pull in his neck sos he wouldn't be play ing off-side). I soon learns that this guy is everywhere except where you'd expect him to be. Our center | has the ball, snaps it to the quarter back, the fullback finally nabs it, and we're off for about three yalNs. We plunges through center twice more but their line holds like it was made of cement and we does every thing but gain.
 We has one more try and some body tells the quarterback Give Andy the ball" What for?" growls one guy, who has no use for me since the day my flivver had the right Of way and argued his Chcvie outa one fender and headlight. He wouldn't know what 10 do with it." This crack goes over my head like sweat shirt. The signal is called for a forward pass. and as the pigskin does perfect Lindhergh in my direction I grabs it and dashcs down the field like it was nobody's business,
 I'm lodging like q jay walker in heavy traffic for about ten yards when all of a sudden l stumbles, loses my balance, and crashes head first into "LanSys'' mid section. He doubles up like he's got cramps, and waiting for him to get unfolded. 'Ianky' was pecVed and lets me know it. If you does that again." he says, looking down on me. "Tll sock you on the top of the bean so hard, and drive you down so far, that they'll need a well digger 10 reach you. and an elevator to bring you to the surfaCe.'
 "Neh" I answers. putting on my headgear in case he should take a big bluff, I'd toss you over a cliff and if wouldn't be a forward paSs. 7" The whistle blows. before I gets hurt. and this time our captain takes the ball for an end run. In the ex- citetlent I forgets that I'm supposed 10 help him with interference, and I tackles him instead. When he got mp he was fit 10 be tied and il takes the whole gang to hold him.
 What he told me, I won't mention. A b,N words which ain't never spoken when they's ladies present, unless it's your relations. We all make mis- takes, except maybe undertakers, and so I gets in the game again, in tending to live down that bonehead play. Another forward pass comes my way. and just as I'm all set 10 grab if. 'I I.anky' appears from mo- where. wraps his paws around it and legs it down the pasture like an ostrich.
 He was as hard 10 stop as q boot leggers car on q back road and tears through our gang, spilling 'em right and life, for rows of life size dummies. leaving 'em sprawled out and looking as foolish as an old maid caught in the act of Warblmg q love song. Being faster on my pins than the old grey mare in her girl hood days I races after him and Is within yard of him when ] meets with interference.
 I gets bowled over like an ashcan in wind storm and goes down like a fire escape. The ground was up- holstcred with everything but four leaf clOvers. When I wakes up, dawn had arrived with another day, as the movies is still saying, and I spent all of it in bed, fumbling with court plastcrs and liniments.
 Gazing into the mirror with on" glimmer the other being decorated with ''shinar"D I decides that foot ball is a great game, for the other fella. And the next time l play it'll be from the side lines. where I may not carry off any honors, but neither will 1 be carried off the field and how.
 Yours most respectful,
 ANDY DALE. NnlII uU yIynnUrn AT vyrInn