Atlanta Daily World

Lou Montgomery Not To Do Tulane Battle

BOSTON-(ANP)-New England college football practice open next week with Lou Montgomery of Boston College still the topic. Because if the ex-Brockton High School star returns to college next month, it is dollars to doughnuts that he won't be in the B.C. opening game of the 1940 season.

The game is at New Orleans, B.C. vs. Tulane. Many sportswriters have been fed the story that white colleges make their schedules decade ahead of time. This is not true. Tulane was put on the B.C. schedule only recently, while Montgomery was still in school. Moreover, several other Southern colleges were being considered by the B.C. authorities only last year in spite of protest by many Hub fans, and 1939 marked a nationwide condemnation of the B.C. policy as everyone knows.

Whether because of this fact or not, the B.C. first string quarterback, Ed Covhig, who was co-captain in the Cotton Bowl affair last season, has now suddenly quit B.C. and will enter the priesthood next month.

Another quiet and sudden move has been the B.C. ousting of the 1939 athletic administration head and a substitution which so far has not indicated any greater Christian policy than the last.

This new B.C. set-up will just about decide whether any more Negroes will don a B.C. football uniform, and in case you've forgotten, B.C. has a Negro halfback, Gil Walker, who is even faster than Montgomery but who has been diverted from football to track for perhaps obvious reasons. Walker is as big as Montgomery and he was star of B.C. freshman team.

But if Walker is kept out of football, Montgomery will have no success. In fact, Montgomery may be the first and last B.C. Negro varsity football player.