The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-12
PRO FOOTBALL
 'DOBROOKS' FLY
 IN 1945 SETUP

New York, April 12. UP)-The National Professional Football league executives, ending a mara thon meeting, left for home today after approving a 5o-game l945 schedule which includes one week day night game and Thanksgiving day contest. st
 The schedule of games begins on Sept. g and ends on Dec. g, span ming II weeks. Following that the annual championship game will be played between the eastern and western winners for the world title.
 Although the Brooklyn Tiger franchise was named as such after & merger with the Boston Tanks, there will be no home games in Brooklyn. All but one of the Bo- Brook home games will be played at Boston. The single exception being the game with the New York Giants. at New York's Yankee Stadium.
 Failure of the league to exert suf- ficient pressure on the New York Giant owners to permit transfer of the Brooklyn franchise to the Yankee Stadium was the principal cause for the delay of the meeting.
 Tom Gallery, general manager of the Tigers, said he would seek to make a connection with one of the three other projected profess sional leagues unless permission is granted to transfer the franchise to Yankee Stadium by the start Of the 1946 season. Otherwise the Tigers, who agreed only to a one year merger with Boston, will be without New York home, since Branch Hickey, head of the Brook lyn baseball club, has stated that he will put professional gridiorn team at Ebbets field in 1946.
 The schedule. opens at Chicago on Sept. g when the Detroit Lions play the Cardinals there. League omciais said the schedule was ar- ranged to provide maximum sav- ing of railroad passenger miles in compliance with requests from the office of defense transportation.
 The schedule by weeks:
 Sept. 23-Detroit at Chicago Cardinals.
 Sept. 25-Pittsburgh vs. Tanks at Boston Tuesday nighD.
 Sept. 30-Chicago Bears at Green Bay; Chicago Cardinals at Cleve- land.
 Oct. 7.-Detroit vs Green Bay at Milwaukee; Chicago Bears at Cleveland; Chicago Cardinals at Philadelphia; Washington at Bos- ton; New York at Pittsburgh. oct. 14.-Chicago Cardinals at Chicago Bears; Cleveland at Green Bay; Philadelphia at Detroit; New York vs. Yanks at Yankee Stadium Washington at Pittsburgh. Oct. Cleveland at Chicago Bears; Tanks vs Green Bay at Mil waukee, Chocago Cardinals at De- troit; Pittsburgh at New York; Philadelphia at Washington.
 Oct. 28-Chicago Cardinals at Green Bay; Chicago Bears at De- | troit; Washington at New YorK; Cleveland at, Philadelphia; Tanks at Pittsburgh.
 Nov. 4.-Green Bay at Chicago Bears; Cleveland at New York; De- troit at Boston; Philadelphia at Pittsburgh; Chicago Cardinals at Washington.
 Nov. 11.-Detroit at Chicago Bears; Green Bay at Cleveland! New York at Philadelphia; Chicago Cardinals at Pittsburgh; Yanks at Washing | ton.
 Nov. 18,-Cleveland at Chicago Cardinals; Detroit at New York; Pittsburgh at Philadelphia; Green Bay at Boston; Chicago Bears at Washington.
 Nov. 22.-Cleveland al Detroit Thanksgiving Day)
 l Nov. 25.-Pittsburtgh at Chicago Bears: Green Bay at New York; Washington at Philadelphia. Dec. 2.-Chicago Bears at Chi cago Cardinals; Boston at Cleve- land; Green Bay at Detroit; Phila-