The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-28
YALE AND COAST
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 Boston, Aug. 3s-CUP)-The New England Football spotlight beams brightest on Yale. Holy Gross and Coast Guard Academy this season as l2 colleges prepare Co climb on the eridiron merry-go-round and i6 others sit idly on the sidelines. conceding that Uncle Sam at last has them yelling Uncle.
 Once again. schools with service trainees figure to be near the top of the list while those relying on l7-year-olds and t-efEers will de- pend on the "old college try" to carry them through.
 At Dartmouth, where a star-stud- ded Marine contingent had the site uation well in hand last year. there is nothing but a corporal's guard left. Coach Earl Brown like the looks of some candidates from the July class but they won't be eligible until Nov. |. by which time the Big Green will have faced Holy Cross. Pennsylvania and Notre Dame. The game with the Fighting Irish. on their first New England invasion, will be played Oct. ia at Boston's Fenway Park.
 Brown has a new coach. Charley Engle, and hopes for some new tale ent. Once-mighty Boston college and Harvard will pass out 90 or 60 uniforms. but both schools have vowed to keep the sport on an "in- formal" basis for the duration.
 Three Best
 Not SO at Yale, Holy Cross anad Coast Guard.
 Coach How1e Odell has five of his i943 linemen back in uniform. so the Ellis frontier no longer will be an open thoroughfare for enemy call- carriers. Among the veterans are Mac Whiting. who at 10 is the youngest football captain in Vale history. and Blake Walker. & Navy V-l2 student from Oak Park, I'll, whom Odell calls "the best football player Yale has had since Clint Frank"
 For Aibie Booth in his first season as Yale's backfiield coach, the out- look is not quite so roseate. Gone is the spectacular Scooter" Scussel. the University of Connecticut's cor- tribution 10 the Navy pool, and gone too are his hard-running cohorts O. i9S3. But if the 0netime Mighty Atom" can uncover breakaway runner like Himself. his headaches are over.
 Holy Cross again looms as a t0p- flight contender for sectional hOp- ors. despite the loss of Tackle George c0nnor and halfbaek Stan Sullivan of Andoyer. brother of two famed Crusaders. Ted Norasky of Erie. Pa. and Jimmy Lehman, a Boston College transfer. as It's triple-threat backaelders. The line win be big and fast as was last falls. though competent reserves are few and far between.
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 The surprise package for Neg England fans viii be Lt. CmdT J. s. MefTlmans Coast Guard eleven which has a squad of toughened vet- erans and a schedule to match. Down Neg London way. they have no thought Of upsetting mighty Army. but they'll he gunning fo: Yale, Holy Gross. Dartmouth ana Brown.
 MiliiaIy-minded Norwich uniyeT- Sity gtll compete on a small scale, while Tufts. Rates, Worcester Tec!l and the University of Connecticut will be heard from later in tones varying between baritone and first tenor.
 Foremost among the "gaF casual ties" are the legend-encTusted 'Ilt- tie Thrae"--Amherst, Williams and WesleyaD-where the boom of the punt and ghiz Of the pass glll be heard no more for the duration. Others missing from action" in- eluoe B0gd0in, Colby, GpFingfleld, Trinity, American International, Providence. Niddlebury, MaSsachu. Setts State, Boston University, Northeastern, New Hampshire, Yer. mont aaaA Eak..aa