Show Boston Finally u 5 Signs gns Myers as Football Coach By BILL KING NEWTON Mass March 14 uPI uPI- Apparently determined to engage the closest possible analogue for forthe forthe forthe the departed Frank Leahy Boston college t today day will formally signup signup sign signup up Dennis E. E Denny Myers as its head coa coach h for the next two years Myers a successful line coach at Brown and Yale has much the same same background Leahy had when he came here from Fordham in 1939 and directed the Eagles through two of their most successful successful success success- ful football seasons the last of which was climaxed by a Sugar bowl victory over Tennessee For the past month ever since Leahy stunned Boston colleges college's delirious admirers by requesting his release from a new year five-year contract contract contract con con- 1 tract to answer Notre Dames Dame's call it has been taken much for granted that Myers would be his successor It took all that time however I before the Boston college authorities authorities authorities ties saw fit to announce Myers' Myers appointment which they did last night During that interval the B. B C. C officials deliberated over a alist alist list of odd 60 applicants I Myers like Leahy is a midwesterner midwesterner midwesterner mid- mid westerner for he was born in Algona Algona Al- Al gona Iowa 35 years ago He as Leahy was was' wasa a linesman during his playing day a guard and tackle on the University of Iowa elevens from 1927 And Just like his predecessor here Myers started his coaching career drilling linesmen at at West Virginia in 1932 The new B. B C C. coach first attracted attracted attracted at at- attention in eastern gridiron gridIron gridiron grid grid- iron circles when he accompanied Earle Greasy Neale to Yale in 1934 When Tuss placed him on his Brown staff in 1936 the Bruins had not made a single point against a major opponent opponent opponent op op- the previous season From th then n on however Brown teams W were re among the nations nation's highest scorers |