The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-14
EAGLES, HOYAS. FOOTBALL GAME.
 WILL BE 'MURDER'
Not Too Tough Schedule Played By Either;
 O'ROurke Safe
BY JOE WILLIAMS

BY JOE WILLIAMS
 New York, Nov. 14.-The mos conservative estimate of the clasf between the Boston College anc Georgetown football Giants on Sat. urday we have heard is that it vii be murder.
 Already the boys have exhausted all the words descriptive of pre-. historic violence and Colossiar physiques. Sedate Boston, scene ot this World War III, is in a statt of terror. Every effort will be made to save women and children first Evacuation plans were completed weeks ago.
 All eight teams, the Boston foul and the Georgetown four, art packed with dynamite. In this situ. ation pygmy six-footers, weighing scant 200 pounds, merely leat cheers, carry water buckets or play piccolos in the band. This is I1C place for anemics, the undernour. ished or midgets.
 MT. Nal Stevens, New York Uni. versity coach, went through an en. gagement with Georgetown anc came back in whirling daze "1t's like something you see in z nightmare or a horror film. I makes you wonder why people de. plore such trifling things as war.
 MT. Herb Kopf, Manhattan coach had a similar ordeal against Bos' ton College The closest got to the action was from where I sat on the side lines, yet I an bruised and battered all over. Fivt times during the game I had tt call time out for myself"
 In firm, literal sense this i the big game on the casts card, tht battle of the Brobdingnagians, thu melee of the monsters, the grappl' of the Goliaths. (You go on iron there0 Both teams are undefeated Georgetown hasn't lost game since the Grover Cleveland administra' ton, and that was probably a typo. graphical error.
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 Even critics close to both teams can't make up their minds as tt the winner. Critics are often like that. Even when they have minds The author of these lines who t known, along with Stagg, Yost anc Warner, as the grand old man o. football, likes Boston College, mainly because of Charlie O'Rourke, refu' gee from the Balkans. He figure! to be the best passer on the fielt and a pass may win the game.
 How's anybody going to breal through those lines or run thos' ends? Without passing, the twt lines are likely to stand in on' place all day long, skulls pressed against skulls, oaken shoulder! steel cord legs inbedded in frozer turf, and over all a fierce jungle symphony of grunts, snorts anc agonizing screams. It ought to b' nice place for Frank Buck t spend the afternoon.
 A fellow could write a million words about the supermen on botf teams but to us Mons. O'Rourke i the phenomenon of all the pheno' mena, and because he weighs onl! 158 pounds, and is six-foot splin' ter. Just to think of him in scrimmage with these hairy manec elephants is enough to make vol feel i'll.
 "Why back of that line and thos' blockers he's as safe as a babe II a mothers arms" treasures MT Frank Leahy, the coach.
 1l1t ka1 NHs Notre Damer, a recent member O the Fordham coaching staff, ant distinguished as the sculptor of thu seven blocks of granite, is the mar of the hour (Eastern Standard Time) of Boston. He can hav' anything he wants there including free parking space on the Com mon.
 "The life and habits" of MT. Leahy run serially in the newspapers. Le him come down with head colo or suffer a hangnail and reporter' and photographers storm the home for bulletins and pictures to keG an affectionate and anxious com. munity fully informed. N
 You'd think he was some sort o. king" comments the bewildered Mrs Leahy. why when he was a Fordham nobody knew he wa around"
 Well, it couldn't happen to a nicel guy at that MT. Leahy is still or the youngish side. He played m der Rockne in 1880. It took hin eight years to get a break and no body who knew him when is sur prised he is doing well, He has tn stuff you like to find in coaches character, intelligence, manly charn and an enthusiasm for youngsters and of course football know-how.
 Nobody in the east knows fo sure just how good either Bostol College or Georgetown is, notwith standing all the available physica evidence. This is because neithe team has played a mans size schedule. Certainly not like Min nesota, for a random example.
 This being so, it is going to b difficult to sell either as the to- team. That honor will go to Cor nell if the big Readers go througl untripped. and who's going to tri em? Besides tripping is illegal Cornell gave Ohio State thorougl smacking around. There's beel nothing like an Ohio State on eithe the B. 0. or Georgetown schedule That one game will be the tine