The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
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BY HENRY McELMoRE

New York, Nov 14-Knox plays Bradley at Galesburg Saturday, and Knox men throughout the world await the outcome anxiously.
 Not until the word Knox blanked again. comes in will the Knox men who are tea-planters in Ceylon, elephant trainers in Bombay and vice-presidents in New York, be able to return to their tea-planting, elephant-train- ing and vice-presidenting with any degree of aplomb.
 For the Knox eleven is in the middle of a sensational losing streak. Not since Princeton and Rutgers played the first game of football in 1869. has any team compiled such an amazing record of invicible futility. Last week the men of Knox juggernauted their way to the 25th consecutive de- feat. The last spot on Knox's record was placed lthere in October 1881 when the team fell into an unex- plainable slump and defeated Be- lott To. Since then Knox has not won, tied or even scored point.
 Naturally, there has been great deal of talk concerning the Knox system" but, according to my mid-western operative, there is no Knox system. The teams brilliant record is entirely dependant upon manrpower.
 Give our team the wrong sort of players" a Knox alumnus here told me, "and we won't lose game in 15 years. If Knox has any sus- tenn at all, 1t is the stress laid upon the center and guards. The guards and center must be extremely fast on defense in order to pull out of the line and open hole for the ap- positions ball-carrier and inter- ference, and slow and sluggish on attack so as to clutter up any az gressiveness on the part of our won backfield men.
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 T will admit,' the old Knox man continued, that deception plays a rather important part with us. l would say that much of our success in failing to get past our own 10-yard line in three games this season, was due to the clever way in which our backs handled triple fumbles, and our refusal to allow the linemen to know which back was carrying the ball or which way he planned to run.
 It is no secret, the old grad told me, that the z points scored against Beloit in 1891 almost brought about a sweeping coach ing cnangge change.
 We were all pretty sore about that victory" he said, "but calmed down a bit when convinced that it was a mistake"
 It seems that the play which scored the touchdown was No 39," for many years Knox's most dependable ground loser. Rival coaches had seen it hundred times, but never could seem to de- wise defense that would prevent it costing Knox anywhere from five to fifty yards. In the Beloit game, as got it, the quarterback found himself in tight spot. With two more downs, he had but SO yards to go for a first down. So he called old ''No 39," confident 1t would save the situation.
 Something went wrong. Some say the left half stun bled and ac- cidentally blocked an opponent; others insist the center forgot and made a decent pass from center. Whatever the cause, the right half, who was carrying the ball. sud- denly found himself past the line of scrimmake-out in the open territory entirely strange to him. For the first time during his play ing days, he was loose with no tacklers round his neck. He grew panicky. and before friendly hands could stop him, had run madly up the field for a touchdown.
 Rumor has it that, shamed by the thing he had done, the half back left school in few days. and is now digging for peat in Ireland, in an effort to forget.