OCR Text |
Show Chases Football by Day, Billiard Ball at Night Besides being captain of the Ford-ham Ford-ham university football team and the greatest defensive center In eastern football, Tony Slano manages a billiard bil-liard room in a recreation hull at Fordham to earn money to support himself while In school and his mother and four brothers and sisters at home In Walthain, Mass. And since Tony Is one of the most popular students the New York city school has known, his billiard room Is a great hangout for the hoys. The reason Slnno rates so highly as a defensive player is because of his ability to diagnose plays, according to MaJ. Frank Cavannugh, his couch. Like the boxer who watches his opponent's op-ponent's feet, the Fordham captain watches carefully every back on the opposing team for a give-away movement move-ment Invarlnbly Tony detects the back who moves a foot, turns tils head, and for that man alone he plays. Consequently, when the luckless halfback half-back Is given the ball he finds Tony Slnno In his path and the Fordham captain Is one swell tackier. ' Major Cavanaugh says he can connt on one hand all the times Sluno has missed a tackle this season. He's like the Royal Northwest Mounted In that he always gets his man. A career In law is Tony's aim, and after graduation gradu-ation he plans to coach to earn money for a course In law school. |