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Show superstitions of coach McMillan Former Centre College Football Foot-ball Star Played Hunches. Bo McMillan, the famous and color-, ful Centre college quarterback of a few years ago, who took Charley Bachman's place as head coach of the Kansas Aggies, has a thousand and one football superstitions. At least he did have them while he went to 1 school. Perhaps, as a coach, he has found superstitions do not win games and has discarded them, but anyway he had them at one time. And how ! Bo had a blue shirt and a red necktie, neck-tie, for Instance, that he never failed to wear whenever Centre went on a trip. He put them on when be dressed to leave town and kept them on, except ex-cept for the time he wort his football suit, until he returned. Now Centre In those days took a number of long trips. The team played on both the East and West coasts. But even on trips that kept him on tlie hop for a week he stuck to that old shirt and necktie though soot lined the wrinkles of both. Bo also bad nn old belt he wore In high school do f t at Fort Worth. He kept it ' when he went to college and never went- into a game without it. Oh, yes, quite superstitious. lie even made over every pair of football pants he wore at Centre, if just to tear open the seams and sew them again himself. Centre was a much photographed team in its winning years, and not the least photographed by any means of all the men -ras Bo. However, for all the insistent attempts of the photographers photog-raphers to snap him before a game, and Insistent Is right, they never could. Bo would have none of 1L After the game, all right, but before never. lie Insisted further on being the last man to enter the park, the last man to leave the dressing room and the last man to set foot on the field. Even Charley Moran, the coach, had to precede pre-cede him. Of superstitious nature, he naturally natural-ly played the wildest bunches. One night before a big game Bo cieamed he ought to put a pair of dice on the roof of a certain high building. No sooner dreamed than done. He got up the next morning, put on his sooty blue shirt and red necktie, picked out a high building aud stuck the dice, "snake eyes" up, in a cornice. Centre won the game. |