Show Boston's sT T 1 Formation Should Trouble Vols V olsBy By HENRY SUPER NEW YORK Dec 12 UP That UP-That That T leT formation is in inthe inthe the he news again today today and and this time in connection with Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton college Ever since the Chicago Bears walloped the Washington Redskins ns with this ancient formation the country country country coun coun- try has gone ga-ga ga over the intricacies of a system that is 4 as old as football So last night Frank Leahy coach of the team which will meet Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- in the Sugar bowl on New Years Year's day was almost swamped when he admitted that he used a variation of this formation in seven of the 10 games that B. B C. C won Championship Trophy Leahy was in New York along with officials of If Boston oston college to receive the Lambert trophy emblematic emblematic emblematic em em- of the Eastern football championship Leahy explained that basically the Boston college was not a T formation team like the Bears who run every play from it But Buthe Butle I he le said that three or four times in n each of seven games the Eagle lined up in a T and that the formation was successful Successful Successful Successful Suc Suc- in fact for 17 touchdowns But before you go out and bet your last clean shirt on B. B C C. against t Tennessee remember that the Bear and Eagle systems are as different as black and white Bears' Bears System In the Bears' Bears T the quarterback quarterback quarterback quarter quarter- back handles the ball on every play feeding it to backfield men who are getting up steam as they pound toward the line or make end swipes In addition the Bears have a e. backfield man running laterally aUthe all aU the time to serve as a decoy or pass receiver or to fulfill any of the numerous assignments required in inthe inthe inthe the Bears' Bears odd plays run from the theT T. T The Boston Booton college quarterback is its blocking back He doesn't handle the ball The Eagles use the T formation only for p. dece-p. tion They have no backfield man manin manin manin in motion and they dont don't have plays to operate from this lineup Nevertheless According to Leahy Tennessee is going to have its hands full fun on New Years Year's day |