The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-26
.TUCKEY FINDS
 COLLEGE COACH. "TOUGH" JOB
BY BY JOSEPH NOLAN (RneclAl Co The DemOcrat)

Special to The Dem0crAtD
 Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 26.-Dlck Tuckey, Naugatucks one-tlrne ale everything athlete, used to think professional football was tough but he knows today that 1t can't hold Q candle to college coaching for nerve. tracking days and sleepless nights.
 Tuckey, Q Navy Chief Specialist, stlll acts as If his tummy were filled with butterflies after watching his heArdless Harvard proteges eke out O iO-l2 victory over Tufts, and then wallop Bates 4S.6,
 "Belleve me-" he said, 'eVery time the other team opens hole in the line or fools our backfield on 0 pass, I'm ready to give up coaching and try something easy--hke run ming the Boston Marathon back ward"
 Certainly, Tuekey couldn't find any fault with the way hiS shifty backs picked holes In the Bates line, could hep >
 "Thmt Bates club was easy" he explained, "beeause they had no re- serves, l secuted them the week be- fore against Coast Guard and they ran Into the same difficulty, As long ns the first string swere fresh they made real game out of 1t, but after that it was c rout.
 Super pnsser
 "TuftS was altogether different, md the less said about it the bet- ter, EVerytime that fellow George Feldman of Tufts faded for pass I was ready to do the ostrich act I thought I'd seen everything In forward. .passing technique from Sid Luekman and sammy Baugh in the pro league, but that Feldman Is tops"
 The only trouble with Harvard football, according to Tuekey, Is that when Saturday rolls around the fellows who have been red.hot all week in practice are on scholas- tie probation and have to watch the game from the bench,
 We have some mighty good boys on the ragged edge enthusiastically" he said, but If we keep improving as we have there is chance we may get through the season un- beaten without them. Only Wor. eeRter Tech and Boston College are in front of us now, md I think we'll be able to take them"
 With Rams, Redskins
 After playing at Manhattan col. lege, Tuckey held down baekfcld assignment for two years with the Washington Redskins and another year with the Cleveland Rams be- fore enlisting in the Navy.
 He played semi.professional foot' ball With radio promoter Ted Col- ljnS' club on Long Island, md had on offer to play this season with Collins fiedglLng Boston YNnks ih the National Professional League However, the Navy turned thumbs down on his gridiron activities, even on c part-time basis.
 At 20, Tuekey is only slightly above the 200 pounds he lugsed around in pro football competition Ills baekAeld proteges delight m Kidding him about grey hairs In his blond mane, but his smiling reply cuts them short: 1T got those last Saturday watching you tumble on the 20.yard linel"
 Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 20, (up)-- Halgback Marvin Jenkins, whose long runs have paced Harvard to victories over Tufts and Bates, mas been placed on scholastic probation ard will not play Saturday against Worcester Tech, it was learned to' day. ,u
 fine ie.yoar.old track and football player from Pelsin, Ill., is the filth naval trainee to be declared in- eligible for football ot Harvard Jen' kins may be roInstated In time for the Beston College clash Oct, '