The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-21
This Sporting World
News For Old Blues
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Hoping fervently that he has not put a typographical "jinx" on the first undefeated, united Yale team since 1923, Charley Loftus, able and alert director of sports inforn1a- tion'' at the New Haven pound of the Eli Bulldogs; has come up with a most interesting article relative to Yale'S last united, llnbeaten foot ball team, and what's more, tells us what the boys are doing now. There was big Bill Mallory, Ducky Pond, the Torrington young man who won that game in the MUD at Harvard Stadium on an intercepted pass; and Widdy Neale, Nal Stevens and the center Lovejoy, and last but not least, good old Century Milstead, one of the fastest hnemen ever saw for "bruiSer." That team scored SIX points for every ONE b wits opponents in the 1923 season and the schedule was plenty tough.
 Who were they, and where are they now? Introducing MT. LoftuS, who put the most interesting in- formation on paper:
 The current Yale football team, victorious in its seven games to date, has only to defeat the Uni- versity of Virginia this Saturday in the famous Yale Bowl to take its place among the dozen other undefeated and united Eli elevens. The last perfect season at New Haven was recorded twenty-one years ago by the great 1923 squad explained by William Memphis BilD Mallory, and defeated North Carolina, Geor gia, Bucknell, Brown, Army, Maryland, Prince ton and Harvard, scoring 230 points to only 38 by the eight opponents.
 The quarterback was Lyle Rich- eson while other backfield mem- bers were Mallory, William H. (Widdy) Neale, Newell Neidlinger, Raymond (Ducky) Pond and Mar win (MaD Stevens. Coach Tad Jones used two sets of halfbacks, starting off with heavy artillery pair, Neale and Pond, and when the enemy was worn down insert ing his light cavalry, Stevens and Neidlinger. Mallory and Pond were irreplaceable. Ends were Dick Luman and Human and Bingham sharing the other flank, Ted Blair and Century Milstead, tackles; Dick Eckert and Tex Dillard, guards, and Winslow Lovejoy at center.
 Mallory, an Army major, was re- gently awarded the Legion of Mer- it Order as the air force office operations over Italy's Pc Valley.
 Blair, now a distinguished New York attorney, is also chairman o1 the Football Y. Association and ex- ceptionally prominent in alumni af' fairs of the University his alternate is an internationally famous sur. geon.
 Luman owns a prosperous cattle ranch in Wyoming, while Richesor is sales manager of the American Radiator Company. Lovejoy is aide de camp to Maj. Gen. Verne Prich- ard in the European theater o1 operations. Neidlinger is the execu- tive vice-presiden tof the Peerless Tube O., and Milstead who re- gently saw combat service as ar Army major, resumed personnel work last month. Sub center Phi Pillsbury is president of the Pills bury Flour Mills.
 Pond, recently advanced to the rank of commander by the Navy served as head coach at Yale for si1 years, and is now in charge of the athletic program at the Georgia Pre-Flight School. Stevens, also g Navy officer, was a widely known orthopedic surgeon, before entering the service. Neale is director of the intramural program at Yale and Eckart is executive director of the Sapolin Company. -