The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-18
This  World
Yale Has the
 "Con1n1oE1 Touch"
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

just two letters, "IF" which includ- ed this line: If you can walk with kings, nor lose the common touch2"
 Perhaps it was just the prospect of @ balmy, sun-warmed afternoon watching 8 half-hundred Yale foot ball boys scamper around the ele- gant architectural masterpiece that is The Bowl; perhaps 1t was the group of Old Grads, one of them a three-time All-American player be- fore the turn of the century; now 78 years of age; perhaps it was af- falable, able Charley Loftus, the publicity chief for Yale sports or it might have been the sight of the first colored football player of Yale varsity history running out of a quickly line, 30 yards to a touchdown in 8 scrimmage game; but whatever it was, there was apt reason to believe that Yale now has gained the common touch"-ap- peal to the general public, the sports writers and the "townies", the latter being guys who never went to col lege, and on any Saturday would like to hear that Yale team had been Swamped 80 to 6 in football, 24-0 in baseball or that some of its swim ming team needed artificial respira- tion followed a submerging at the hands of Olneyville Boys Club.
 Waterbury was well-represented
 at the football drill and barbecue
 arranged by Ted Blair, current
 chief of the Old Blues" for there
 was Dan Parker of the New York
 Mirror, w. P. O'Donnell of the
 Republican, Chick Kelley of the
 American and your reporter; while
 last but not least was Fritz Bar
 rilauSkaS out there in the Yale
 varsity line, opening holes in the
 red-shirted Harvard" line for Levi
 Jackson, the New Haven born
 Negro boy who carried the ball three times, scoring two touch- downs, one on a run of 80 yards,
 the other 45. On the longer run,
 the line work giving him a chance
 to get under way was superb; and
 he, when seemingly trapped" and
 about to be brought down, whirled
 out of the mass and was away, outracing the opposing secondary
 on touchdown gallop that was
 stopped by Coach Howie Odells whistle; though the whistle did
 not stop the electric impression
 and audible comment plus great
 big hand" of applause for Levi
 the Eli of Yale, almost certain to
 increase Saturday attendance by
 thousands over the seven bowl
 games of 1946, barring injury and
 unforeseen circumstance.
 Old, middle-aged and young
 men, Yale football greats since
 1897 were eye-witnesses to the colored boys performance; some of them commenting that Jackson,
 a hard-running, speedy, opportun-
 ist of the Larry Kelley type may
 be key backfield figure to a truly great Yale team. There was w. w.
 (Pudge) Heffelfinger, who came 1,600 miles from Minneapolis to see what Yale had in football this season, named here as 8 sample trio of the football men who were
 wel-pleased and well-entertained during the afternoon and evening.
 Speaking on the radio, Heffelfin- ger gave out with the surprising comment that it was a Hartford newspaper editor, Whitney, by name who had the scheme" as Fudge called 1t, to nominate an All-Amer- ican college team each season; which became national event each De- cember; as editor Whitney spoke of his idea to Walter Camp of. Yale, the latter having been credited by millions with originating the AL American selection plan. Camp fol- lowed through with A selections every year since helping MT. Whit ney originally; while an All-Amer- ica football board has been set up since the death of Walter Camp; in- cluding famed coaches such as Glenn s. (Pop) Warner who origin ally coached the Carlisle Indians of Jim Thorpe's day; Bill Alexander of Georgia Tech; Knute Rockne of Notre Dame (before his untimely death) and Dr. Jock Sutherland, be- fore the latter deserted Pittsburgh for the professionals.
 Larry Kelley, famed paSs-catch-
 ing end of the 1941 Yales, met up
 with a couple of other Yale ends,
 who wore cleated shoes before
 Kelley was born. They were John
 Reed Fitzpatrick and Frank But
 terworth, grid-scarred veterans of
 the flying wedge" days when
 Heffelfinger was as easy to handle
 as Stalin and Molotov; while
 Century" Milstead, one of the
 fastest 200 pound linemen Yale
 ever played; "Dud" Charlesworth,
 "Cobbles" Sturhahn, Fay Vincent,
 Widdy Neale. Bill Webster, Winnie
 Lovejoy, and Eli Cutler; Torring-
 tons Johnny Hoben, level-headed
 quarterback from a town that
 gave Jim Hogan, one of Yale's
 greatest linemen to the New Hav-
 en University; Ted Lilley, of Wa
 tertown, whose boy figures prom
 inently in Yale wing plans this
 season; and Chet LaRoche, Ralph
 Bloomer and Newell Neidlinger-
 were all on hand at the liveliest
 Yale football party of years.
 Scattered around the bowl were spectators of many walks Of life; who, with a half-dozen New York sportswriters and radio men, were duly impressed with what they saw; all part and parcel of an unusual audience at Yale football drill; but live evidence to the fact that Yale despite it's ivy-shrouded traditions of the past has added to its cheering section plenty of people who will be glad to see Odell's boys play this lc Nf &bay,o for e