Boston Yanks Offer Davis Contract To Play Pro Football in September

Eddie Davis, the iron man of last fall's football team, may be playing right tackle for the Boston Yanks when next September rolls around. Last month after watching a re-run of the Harvard-Yale football game movies, Clipper Smith, head-coach of the Boston pro-football club, came up with a fat offer calculated to make Davis a Yank lineman when the 1947 National Professional Football League opens up.

Smith, who drafted Yale's Fritz Barzilauskas in the National League pool this fall, came over to the Indoor Athletic Building to view his prospective charge in action on the celluloid, but emerged with some new ideas from an afternoon's session with the films and some of the Crimson coaches.

Davis Faced Fritz in Line

The next day he phoned up Davis, and proffered him a contract. Davis's main opponent on the cold afternoon of November 23, 1946 was one Fritz Barzilauskas.

After considering the proposition for the last three weeks, Davis, who graduates this June, has still not definitely decided whether or not to accept. "I don't think pro-football is the career for me," was his reaction yesterday, "and I doubt very much that I'll become a Yank."

All-American in 1944

210-pound Davis, probably the steadiest man in the line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career.