New Britain herald., 1930-10-30
Speaking S of Sports

or S p or | s HI Being in close touch with certain parties who are very close to Albie | Booth, mite quarterback or the Yale football team, we have taken parti- l cular notice that in all the squawk- ing that is being done by Yale SUD- porters over the unfortunate occur renee in the Yale-Army game at New Haven last Saturday, not, q word has been heard from the figure who is the center of the entire dis cussion, Booth himself In fact, Booth has nothing to say about the game except that he would have gone back into the bat tie 10 minutes after he was injured if the Yale board of coaches would have allowed him to do so. Albie is not the type that turns to squawk- ing when he takes a pumping In game.
 He has refused to say anything with regard to the game to the metropolitan press He merely says he is getting ready for Dartmouth. If Albie was a quitter, then the spot for him to have shown it was in the Harvard game of last season.
 We dare say that no football play CT in these parts suffered the trinl- ming handed to Booth in that game with better grace or with more equanimity than Albie did. He took a licking and was glad of it. He his team will win.
 It is our opinion that Booth has all the qualities that go to make d great sportsman. He has football ability and he has breadth of mind that leaves no space for the entrance of anything small. He gives noth- ing but the highest sort of praise to his opponents and gives and takes with the idea that it is all in the game.
 We cant help but admire anyone with a spirit such as he possesses and those critics of his who have taken a fling at Yale in general and Booth in particular, should bear tn mind that Albie is not responsible for whatever is said about him by his friends and admirers.
 Football fans in this city will De awaiting the announcement of the board of managers of the All New Britain football team regarding the question of whether they will be in the field starting next Sunday. This announcements is due some time. to- day.
 The proposed request that the park board place barbed wire at the top of the wire fence enclosing the football field, is tough on Young New Britain" but business move ment on the part of the team back CTS of the team.
 In these days when the "All America" football teams have line e. ups that sound like one representins; the League of Nations and even tn } Fighting Irish" of Notre Dame ccme in large measure from south ern and eastern Europe, there re- al o,,lr days when football teams were con- posed of Anglo-Saxons and Hiber- nians. And that team is Yale.
 From end to end, through the backfield, and all down the list the substitutes there is not a single play e; whose name suggests the more recent elements in the American melting pot. Nearly all appear Eng fish or Irish, with Frenchman or German here and there providing the only variety. Booth, Hare, Crow ley, Parker. Dunn, Vincent, Taylor Beane and so on down the line, wit, not a single tongue-twister except the Teut nc-soundng Uihlein.
 Not even Harvard, supposedly the most artistocratic of universities can rank with Yale in this preserva- tion of football for the direct des- condants of the Pilgrims. For ir the Cambridge backfield this year along with the good old names O. Wood, Crickard, and Mays, appear. none other than Schereschewsky!
 TO START AT FULLBACK
 Worcester, Mass, Oct 30 (UP)- Paddy Byrne will start at fullback for Holy Cross against Rutgers Sat. urday, it was understood today. Al. though veteran back, Byrne ha: not been in the regular lineup thi' season because of late start Rair and mud forced a postponement o yesterdays scheduled stiff scrim mage.