The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-09

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FEATURE YALE
FOOTBALL PLAN

New Haven, sept. e-When the
lid Is pried on the Yale football sea-
son Saturday at 3 in the Bowl
against Muhlenberg college, Head
Coach Howard Odell's teen age
team will have three-pound per
man weight advantage over the
Cardinal and Gray grid warriors Of
Alvin (Doggie) Julian.
The Bulldog line will average 1856
pounds, while behind this forward
wall will be one Of the heaviest
backfields Of an Eli team within re-
call, the mean weight per man being
an even 100 pounds. The team av.
erage is 1888 pounds.
The hackfleld Of the Mules that
will start the contest is 10 pounds
lighter per man than that Of the
Yales, while the line averages 1877, q
single pound more than that Of the
Blue average. The overall average
Is 1876.
At the same time the Yale team
will be one Of the youngest to play
In the Bowl-an average Of 1877
years, with the squad babies being
the guards, Tiger Smith and Mac
Whiting, a pair Of lS-year-old soph-
ignores.
Streamlined
The Yale team will also be one
OF the tallest and the average
height Of the ll-man lineup Is
Just shade over six feet. The
top man is six-foot three Inch Wal
ter Brown at left end while next is
Wayne johnson, ex-Harvardite, a
tailback who stands just an inch
less. Tackle Ed Strype and Smith
are the only two men who are un-
der six feet.
The Mules will present a smaller
club with only o single man, Joe
Shanosky, O towering tackle who
stands six-feet two, over the 72-inch
mark in the scheduled starters.
Although Odell's club Of Brown,
Harry Oberhelman, Whiting, Smith,
George Hudanish and Strype in the
forward wall, and Johnson, Blake
Walker, Bob Pickett and Jimmy
Hopes in the rear line ranks will
weight about the same as last years
outfit, the l943 edition has much
more speed.
"There is no doubt" said Odell,
that could put q team on the
field this season that would be a
bunch of heavyweights, but our new
streamlined system modification Is
dependent on speed and deception.
Our second club line will be the
bruisers."
He was referring to Dolph
Schwenk, tackle who weighs 2l0;
Enrico Cipolaro, o 2l0 pound guard;
Bill Powell, 200 pounds Of center;
Fred Miller and Bob White, the
former a 2i0 pound guard and the
latter q 200-pound tackle.
Although Odell refused to be
pinned down on the question, this
may well indicate that he will use
his second string line for wearing
down purposes, and on the other
hand use this outfit for defensive
stands.
From the Muhlenberg camp comes
word that the Julian outfit Is well
primed for the clash and reports
that Davie Grifflth, q power-packing
back, Is running wild" caused the
Ellis to devote major portion OF
Yesterdays practice under torrtd
summer sun and saturating humid
ity to q defense designed to stop
this former Moravian star.
The Ellis also worked out on both
offense and defense punt formations
with burly Bob Pickett and Ray
scooter" Scusseu bearing the brunt
OF the kicking burdens. Both ap.
pear to be highly satisfactory in this
department Of the game.
Today the Yale squad will under
20 a scrimmage session with the
down the line Orange shirted squad
using Muhlenberg plays and the
varsity Blue eleven on defense. To-
morrow they will engage IN only
light work and will taper on Satur-
day with q brief signal drill.