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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
25
A veteran coach outlines ideal quarterback traits including voice energy and confidence. The piece argues quarterbacks are born not made, with leadership, fairness, courage, and strategic nerve shaping game decisions. It illustrates split-second choices under pressure and the need for clear, practiced signals and field sense.
Yale football coaches ordered no scrimmage ahead of the Tufts game. The two varsity squads conducted only signal drills and dummy runs with formations practiced, no tackling, and pauses for coaching on errors.
Federal and state officers arrest five or six men for night shooting and shooting from moving motorboats or sailboats in Quincy and Dorchester bays. Complaints by sportsmen followed a bay incident in Quincy Bay last week. Penalties in 1919 laws range from 26 to 100 dollars and may include confiscation of guns.
Jack Curley launches a boxing and wrestling circus in New York with Cuddy and Curley’s gang operating regularly promising a strong year for the traveling ring and events.
President Harry Frazee, still owner of the Boston Red Sox, arrived in town yesterday and dismissed circulating talk that Congressmen Gallivan or a Boston syndicate would take over the club. He called the rumors the same old yarn resurrected each fall and spring.
Frazee says Babe Ruth contract from last spring stands and will not be contacted before his California departure. He warns unhappy players are liabilities and would trade any man to strengthen the Red Sox, while considering actions over the World Series receipts and the winter meeting agenda.
A meeting of the Mystic Valley Interscholastic Football League officials at Winchester High School resolved a protest from Watertown High School regarding Melrose High School and decided to replay the Arlington Winchester game at Spy Pena Athletic Field in Arlington on Tuesday afternoon November 18. Charles L. Curtis presided.
Coach Charles Whalen sends Tufts Eleven toward New Haven to meet Yale in the Bowl tomorrow at 3 pm. Doc plans three elevens for practice and substitutes to study Tufts play against a strong opponent. Key players include Tom Thornton and Owen Keefe as Tufts prepares its new shift and open play approach.
Fred Fulton an American heavyweight knocked out Gordon Coghill of Australia in the third round at Holborn Stadium. The bout was billed as a 20 round contest.
Tufts faces Yale with a strengthened lineup as Ernie Martin moves to fullback and Bill Mitchell and MacNamarra's absence reshapes the backfield. The squad, eager and deep, hopes to avenge Yale’s recent defeat and prove their strength on Pennell Field.
The Lexington High School girls field hockey team will host Winthrop at Lexington Athletic Field at 3 30 this afternoon. Captain Annie Moakley will play fullback as Lexington aims to influence the 1919 Greater Boston championship race. Coaches Glen Warner Al Sharpe and Speedy Rush are noted for dynamic seasons.
The varsity lineup is altered with players moved across positions and new starters named. Kenneth Hamill shifts to center while Galvin remains at guard, Callahan expected to miss the big matches against Brown Harvard and Princeton. Cornell pride hinges on beating Dartmouth later in the season.
Bridgeport Connecticut reports Billy DeFoe of Providence battered Frankie Britt of New Bedford prompting promoter Billy Hogan to scratch Britt for his Oct 27 bout with Benny Valger of New York. Harry Carlson of Brockton, the New England lightweight champ, steps in as Britt’s replacement. Britt previously split from manager Ray Cass of Boston who had boosted him to the big leagues.
Tonight the first wrestling tournament of the season is set in the Mechanics building. Main matches include Stanislas Stesiek vs Helmar Johnson and Renato Gardini vs Mort Henderson with two other bouts Mike Nastor vs Orest Vadell and Nick Karavas vs Steve Graf under catch-as-catch-can rules.
Princeton's harriers will be captained by W. M. Forseman this year. Forseman has shown excellent form in cross country and is one of the distance men on the track team.
The U.S.S. Utah will play the U.S.S. Delaware at Boston College field Newton on Saturday afternoon. The winner advances to New York to compete for the North Atlantic fleet championship. Admission to the game is free.
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