The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-23
Close Race In Public Parks Baseball League
Tim HOPES TO
BE'KEY MAN OF
43 YALE TEAM

New Haven, Conn, Aug. % 49, We
always knew that couple of
pounds made a lot Of difference in
boxers and jockeys, but take 1t from
Townsend w. (Tim) Hopes of
Derby, N. Y, Captain of the 1913
edition of the Yale University grid
machine, 1t also makes a lot Of diff
ference in football players.
Tim should know, too, for the
past six weeks has been hustling
under torrid sun in summer prac-
tice trying to sweat off a few
pounds he has put on during the
winter.
Hopes is the boy who last fall in
the season finale against Harvard
snagged a pass late In the fourth
quarter and snaked his way 48 yards
down the sideline to give Yale a
spectacular to victory over the
crimson warriors.
Tins big boy-six feet tall and
all of it football player-but con-
trary to popular belief he doesn't
think that the more player weighs
the better he is.
my Sophomore year." he says, II
was as slow as an old war horse
and as matter of fact I was that
way at the start of last year. I al
most ate my way right on to the
bench"
Good Advice
That was until Head Coach HOWE
Odell and backfield mentor Judson
A. Timm took Hopes and told him
he could be lot faster if he would
shed few pounds.
Tim figured the 1876 pounds he
packed helped him to batter his way
through the line which was true
enough, but once he got into the
open he was easy prey and time
and again was pulled down from
behind.
Then Tim began to go on diet
and pare his poundage, and once
he started to knock off the extra
weight the results were easily no.
ticeable
BY mid-season against Brown he
slashed through an off-tackle open
ing and galloped 30 yards before he
was dragged to the gryound.
1T was then realized" he said,
that those few extra pounds made
a lot of difference. Ten pounds may
not seem like much, but put that
much on your back and start to
run and see how much it slows you
down."
Tim Whitfield himself down to
1873, which he considers his best
playing weight - enough heft to
smash through opposing lines and
at the same time light enough to
be able to really step once he was
In the secondary - and received the
biggest thrill Of his college career.
1t was on a bitter cold day last
autumn when Yale was playing
Princeton at wind-swept Baker
Bowl IN New York. The Tigers were
leading 6 to 0 by virtue of an early
game touchdown.
Tim tucked the ball under his
arm and started out on an end run
Jaunt when he noticed that the
Princeton end had drifted out
slightly so he cut in fast and romp-
ed So yards to score standing up
and without a hand being put on
him. What was more than that. he
kept opening up the gap between
him and the Tiger defenders as the
chase went on.
Hopes, a 21-year-ol lad with an
infectious smile, is in his Senior
year at Yale and is enrolled in the
Marine Reserve Training Program.
The first thing he is going to do
when he Is graduated Is to help get
the war over in a hurry but then
ne wants to 60 to law school.
He was born Duluth, Mimi, but
1ive years later his family moved tc
Crosse Point, Mich, and for eight
years he attended the University OF
Detroit school. It was there az 3
gangly kid without coordination b,
self admission he got his first tastt
of fotball - and he loved it.
Big Feet
His family later moved to Eas
Aurora, N. Y, and he played TO,
Two years on the local high schoo
team. He says his feet were too biz
and he was too clumsy to be back 81
they made him an end, a post ht
held down there and at Andoye,
Academy.
He was an end when he came te
yale, and he says that he really
ddn't know anything about foot.
pail until that year he came unde,
the Watchful eye of Preache,
Franklin, Captain of the 1888 Van
derbilt team, who was then a mem.
per OF the Yale coaching staff.
The next year Spike Nelson, who
was the Blue Head coach at that
time, needed big back so HOPES
was singled out for the Job and in
spring practice showed up well.
During the summer he went to
Nassau, had tea with the Duke and
duchess Of Windsor, and must have
slowed away too many crumnets
because then he returned to school
the weight had slowed him down
81 CdLly.
Football Isn't the only thing Tim
ukes-he goes for tennis, golf, rug
oy ana sWimming-but he still likes
football best. On the campus. he is
one OF the best liked youths to ever
attend Yale. He's a member of
Deita Kappa Epsilon, Torch Honor
Society and Skull and Bones.