| Show Booth Becomes Record t Tiny Yale Star Ends Athletic Career Forced to Hospital Cot Editors Editor's Note This is the first of or ofa a I. I series of three stories on Albie Booth star stu Y Yale le athlete B By Edward J. J Neil Associated Press Correspondent NEW YORK Dec 3 Albie 3 Albie Booth the dynamic mite is resting in the Gaylord m at Wallingford Conn toda today bound to a hospital cot for perhaps four four v mon months hs his stor t book career now now C Conly only a matter of Yale athletic rec rec- I His is the story t I of a town small-town b I h 1 t i made boy who good in his hi own J L neighborhood 1 i New Haven high high- 1 D school idol who who i Ii i stepped into Yale's r i i big league all 14 t JI ji pounds of him J t tand and instantaneously I f J I d do o m J Jevery every team foot- foot Booth ball aall baseball or basketball on which he tie played Albie is the greatest broken field runner the finest leader in Yale's modern football history a car ball back whose sudden scoring splurges are rivaled only by feats of the gridirons gridiron's great pair of redheads redheads redheads red red- heads Grange of ot Illinois and Cagle of of Army Yet in his three sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- years although he captained the football and basketball teams and was a star on the baseball nine Albie Al Al- bic bie never made an America all eleven Always some injury or some illness such as the pleurisy and Bronchitis that now have ended his Yale forced him to the sidelines sidelines side side- lines stopped him as Ben Ticknor did just short of the goat goal Yet in his three years in the Yale backfield Booth probably generated as much pu publicity li ty as either cither Grange or ir Cagle He had the thc same spark of lo ional al leadership the dash and spectacular ability to to function best in ina a crisis the nerve nerve of ot a winning ball player No halfback in recent years has ranked ahead of him as a money player playe THREE HIGH SPOTS Three high spots blaze through Booths Booth's career two of ot them in a pair of magnificent scoring outbursts the third in the last few minutes of ot the I Harvard Yale Harvard Yale game came arne last o of his ca ca- ca reer when he dropped back just an ar ordinary ball all afternoon am and kicked the field goal that gave the Elis a 3 0 victory As a sophomore he leaped overnight overnight overnight over over- night into national fame tame by tearing Army apart in little more than a period pe nod to score 21 points after the Cadets Cade with Red Cagle in the ascendancy ascendancy as as- as had gained a lead of ot 13 0 Booth went into that battle batUe late in the second quarter a newcomer to major league football but you could see the big Blue line suddenly come to life the backs realize their blocking jobs for the first time as the cocky mite then scaling all of ot pounds led them into action Twice 1 he headed the charges that wound up over the Army Anny goal and then to top off oft a display that left Cagle lookIng look look- ing like an ordinary back he ran back a punt 80 yards for a touchdown touchdown touch touch- down and kicked drop his third extra extra ex ex- tra point BREAKS LOOSE Harvard beat him as a freshman held him again his sophomore and junior years and it was not until Dartmouth came along this fall that thai Albie broke out in another touchdown touchdown touch touch- down rash that looked as as though it must have been done with mirrors Stopped through the first period Booth broke away with a kickoff in the second quarter to run 85 yards ards for lor the first of oC three touchdowns he scored within 5 minutes Then as the ball game suddenly I turned into a scoring madhouse he I caught a pass from Dartmouth's 35 yard line and ran for another score and burst 54 yards from scrimmage to a third touchdown He left the game then with Yale leading 3 19 and he did not go back again when the great passing combination of Bill Morton and Bill BUl McCall tied the count 33 The climax of ot a great career came in the Harvard stadium two weeks ago Against the same background of frustration the Crimson had painted for him three straight years faced with a scoreless tie to add to three previous defeats Albie played his final card It was getting dark and there'd be no more opportunities Albie fell back to Harvard's 12 yard line The pass came back true Straight through the center of the goal posts he drop A few minutes min rain utes later he trotted of off a college football field for the last time a chunk of oC the Harvard Har goal posts in his hands |
