do more than double duty, a_half-dis-
abled captain was forced into play when
he should have had a chance to recu-
perate, and even ordinary matches be-
came dreaded bugbears, as a result of
allowing the material to become cen-
tered in too few men.
When Dr. Hartwell-came up, the first
of November, he found a disorganized
team with a very flimsy backing of
material, and not enough toughened
and willing second eleven men to fill
the breaches if the needed rest were
given to University men. This year
the coach will find an even greater
paucity of men and a much shorter
season than last year before a vital
match. The Harvard game comes on
the 13th of November, and it is hard to
see how Yale, even with the greatest
efforts of her most willing coaches, can
make up for the steady diminution of
promising men that has been going on
for three years. Fortunately the new
material is more promising and gives
hope that if properly handled it may
provide for the future.
“THE PLAIN FACTS.
To place before Yale men who are
looking forward to the Harvard and
Princeton games with the usual inten-
sity of interest, the plain bald facts of
the situation, is simple. Yale was
overwhelmingly defeated by Princeton
last year. For the first time it became
the humiliating experience of Yale men
to be actually sorry for.their team, to
lose, long before the end of the game,
anything like hope of victory in a be-
numbing sense of pity for the hope-
lessly outclassed eleven who were strug-
gling to prevent total annihilation.
This year we renew football relations
with our old friends and rivals, Har-
vard. There is never a time when we
do not zealously desire to win, and yet
it seems as though this were the espe-
cial occasion when we wish to put a
strong team in the field, because we
wish to retrieve the defeat of last season
by Princeton and begin a new page of
football records with Harvard by a vic-
tory. To have a chance of these desires
being consummated, means the most
devoted work of the entire University
and the alumni. ,
Yale’s needs are imperative and there
are many who are ready to help. But
a pell-mell rush of candidates, odd
weeks here and there of numbers of
coaches—these cannot do it all. Yale
must once more be governed by a sys-
tem—some system—one might almost
say any system, so long as it is a sys-
tem and a stable one—before she can
begin to retrieve her losses. Plans that
are well-laid but last only for two or
three weeks and then give way to new
plans of similar duration, discourage
candidates, befuddle their senses and
leave them, in time of emergency, at
the mercy of the ruthless one-two-three
of method. When a man goes into a
big match he must have learned to do
many things almost mechanically, in
order that his wits may be exercised in
other ways than in trying to remember
where he ought to be in the play and
what he is expected to do.
THE YALE COACH.
.At this writing there is great hope
that Mr. Butterworth, one of the best
coaches and most dashing of players
that Yale has ever had, may be induced
to take the charge of the team for the
entire season. The only possible sal-
vation of Yale’s football interests lies
in that line. Sporadic attempts by one
man and another for short periods of
two or three weeks and no set plan
laid down and followed throughout a
season, has been for the last three years
Ssapping the very life of what has been
in the past a wonderful football school.
Last year Dr. Hartwell, who stands at
the very top of coaches in knowledge
and ability, took the team for the last
three weeks of the season. But even
his ability was so handicapped by the
general deterioration and the lack of
system that had prevailed, that he must
many times, in looking over his men,
have felt almost a despair of getting
satisfactory results in the short time
allowed him. A revolution in method
is the only hope, and still more is the
only chance, not only for anything like
respectable play this year, but for any
results in future years. Nothing less
than a return to steadfastness of pur-
pose and design can avail anything, no
matter what the material, and with such
a return even mediocre material may be
so brought up as to furnish a nucleus
for something like the old successes.
WALTER CAMP.
bp. gh ee SS = ALUMNI
BRIGHT PROSPECTS,
Harvard’s Football Season Opens
Well.
Cambridge, Sept. 28.—Although Har-
vard will not open her doors to the
students until the middle of this week,
the football instructors have been hold-
ing two sessions daily on the Soldiers’
Field gridiron. In response to the
preliminary call for candidates, thirty-
four men presented themselves to Cap-
tain Cabot for the first day’s practice on
Monday of last week. This number has
since increased to fifty, and when Cap-
tain Cabot gets an opportunity to look
over the men in the entering classes
other available candidates will be added
to the squad.
As usual, Harvard will open the sea-
son with the brightest prospects. Her
team of veterans—heavier and more
experienced than a year ago—is already
*talked of as likely to prove a famous
eleven, and certain it is that the con-
ditions seem to favor the Crimson.
But first the coaches.
This list of head coaches in Rugby at
Harvard during the past four years
includes W. A. Stewart, Dr. Brooks,
Lorin F. Deland, Robt. W. Emmons,
2d, and B. G. Waters. This season
Cameron Forbes has been added to the
number. Mr. Forbes has not been
prominently identified with the devel-
oping of University elevens at Harvard,
but he has been in close touch with the
Harvard football world of late years
and has coached several of the class
elevens successfully. He is said to be
an excellent organizer and well capable
of directing the campaign against Yale
this Fall. His assistants will include
the more prominent of the recent play-
ers. Already ex-Captains Waters and
Emmons, W. H. Lewis and Joshua
Crane have helped in the work and Dr.
Brooks has also taken a look at the
material. Trainer Lathrop will again
have charge of the physical condition
of the players, and it is understood that
he will have more authority in this mat-
ter than last year. The handicav of
poor physical condition, from which
Harvard teams have suffered in their
big games, has awakened the authori-
ties to a realization that greater pre-
cautions against injury or overtraining
must be taken. ,
The system of developing the team
will be changed in one important par-
ticular. Whereas it has been the cus-
tom here of late years to constantly
change the composition of the eleven,
giving a large number of men an
opportunity to show their ability and
determining upon the final make-up
of the eleven only a short interval be-
fore the important games, this year the
policy is to pick the first eleven at the
start and to make changes only when
some player on the second eleven shows
superiority entitling him to replace one
of the players on the University. The
unusually favorable conditions this Fall
make the plan feasible.
The men who have been chosen for
the team are, with two exceptions, vet-
erans in their positions. The list and
their weights are as follows:
Name and position Weight.
Capt. Norman W. Cabot, ’08, 1. e. 167
Sie Was Wheeler, M:i'S.) deta A 222,
George W. Bouve, ’08, I. g....... 214
Ait. Dotcette,.Li..9.,:Chwiaeess 218
Netto Shaw, °O8/ 1s @.455.05.54 203%
Malcolm Donald, ’99, r..t........ 18214
Jonn Moulton: 08,0 8: Guat. 173
F449, “Cochrane, 00,0. BD. 444 643 152
R. W. P. Brown, ’08, r. h. b..... 150%
Jo As Sullivan, L$. 1h. bias 401856
Percy D. Haughton, ’99, f. b..... 185%
Four of the members of last year’s
team are missing from the list. These
ate: F. Shaw, center, Dunlop and Cap-
tain Wrightington, half-backs, and
Beale, quarter-back. But, with the ex-
ception of quarter-back, there are ex-
cellent men who participated in impor-
tant games last season to step into the
vacant places.
THE HEAVY LINE.
The strength of the eleven promises
to be in its forwards. Harvard has a
line which in weight and experience
will compare favorably with the splen-
did line that Princeton presented last
season. At center, Doucette has divi-
ded honors with Frank Shaw for two
years and knows his duties well. He
has 218 pounds to help him in a push.
Norton Shaw at one guard has played
for three years and weighs over 200,
while Bouve on the left of center tips
WW HEKRLY
the scales at 215 pounds and has had
two years’ practice on the _ second
eleven. Donald, right tackle, made the
University eleven in his Freshman year
and Wheeler at right tackle has played
more or less on the University for two
years, although incapacitated early last
Fall by an injured knee. He is the
heaviest man on the team, weighing
222% pounds. Captain Cabot and
Moulton on the ends are both heavy
men for the outside positions and
played in the same places last year.
Such an array of veteran forwards has
seldom gratified a Harvard captain at
the opening of the season. The list of
substitutes for positions in the line in-
cludes not a few experienced men,
among them Lee and Swain, who
played the tackle positions against
Princeton last November.
_ Behind the line the material is rather
light and this fact has induced Coach
_ Forbes to try Haughton, who has for-
merly played one of the tackle posi-
tions, in the _ full-back’s position.
Haughton, as first base on the ball nine,
showed a good deal of life, and
it is hoped that his weight may
be utilized for bucking the line.
Brown, who played full-back last sea-
son, and Sullivan, who was Captain
Wrightington’s understudy, should
make an excellent pair of half-backs,
although the former’s speed is limited.
Cochrane, the present favorite for quar-
ter-back, is unusually light, but active
- and generally accurate in his passing.
With so much beef in the middle of the
line, Harvard can well afford to play a
light quarter this year, if only one with
sufficient quickness can be secured.
THE SUBSTITUTES.
The names and weights of the men
who have been chosen as substitutes for
the line men and those who have learned
the University formations and signals
are: Lewis, right end, 162%4; Lee, right
tackle, 18214; Burden, center, 199%;
Swain, left tackle, 177; Richardson, left
end, 143%. The substitutes behind the
line are: Dibblee, 155; Cozzens, 161;
Livermore, 149; Wadsworth (quarter),
159; and full-back, Sawin, 155%. Knox,
151, and Brine, 145, are also in the race
for these places. The substitute guards
are not yet settled.
The first game of the season will be
with Williams at Soldiers’
October 2d. The rest of the schedule
is as follows:
October 6. Bowdoin at ‘Cambridge.
October 9. Dartmouth at’ Cam-
bridge.
October 13. Amherst at Cambridge.
October 16. West Point at West
Point.
October 20.
bridge.
October 23. Brown at Cambridge.
October 30. Cornell at Cambridge.
November 3. Boston A. A. at Cam-
bridge.
November 13. Yale at Cambridge.
November 20. Pennsylvania at Phil-
adelphia.
Newton A. A. at Cam-
J. Weston ALLEN.
Field on —
HATS, TOO.
When furnishings are from Chase
& Co. they are generally counted,
- ipso facto, O. K.
The same reputation we are confi-
dent will attach to our
=HATS=
We don’t talk much of bargains,
but we beg to observe that the CHASE
Hat at four dollars is good value.
We know about hats, and what
they cost. Nothing better than this hat
is made in America. That’s a fact.
Very choice English hats, too.
Drop in on—drop a line to—
CHASE & CO.,
- NEW HAVEN HOUSE BLOCK.
Practice at Princeton.
(Correspondence of THE WEEKLY.)
Princeton, Sept. 25, 1897—-The Uni-
versity team lined up for the first time
this season this afternoon. The work
of the past week has been mainly in the
line of light practice, such as falling on
the ball, catching and tackling.
The scrub and University lined up,
however, this afternoon and played two
fifteen minutes halves. The scrub team
is not as strong as that of last year, but
the University showed excellent form.
About fifty men responded to the call
for candidates, and from these Captain
Cochran selected the following as the
preliminary Princeton eleven: Lathrop,
l-e3 Holst: Edwards, 1. 2: Boot
ec Crowdis. rf: dillebrand, 2 £;
Cochran. 25> - q. b.; ~ Kelly,
ru. b.* Bannard, { and Wheeler,
{f. b.. During the practice, Burke and
Palmer were both tried at quarter-
back, Ayres at full, and Reiter and
Reed as halves.
Reiter has so far shown the best form
back of the line, while Holt’s work in
the line gives evidence of equalling that
of Church. The line is chiefly remark-
able for its weight. Booth and Lathrop
will probably retain their places while
Edwards will give way to Armstrong,
last year’s guard. The quarter-back
question is quite a serious one, but it
is more than likely that Baird will
play the position, surrendering his
place at full-back to either Ayres or
Wheeler. Bannard is not up to his
form at this time last year.
The men are being coached by Mr.
Moffatt, ’84, George, Church, 8&8,
Wheeler, John Poe, and Captain Coch-
ran. Moffatt holds the position of head
coach, as he did last year. The first
game will be against Lehigh next Sat-
urday. The men will be taken to the
training table on Wednesday.
oe,
Ca:
About a Yale Paper_u
It is the aim of the Yale Weekly to give the news and
the views of all Yale—to tell about it, to illustrate it,
to comment on it, and to co-operate with all who are
working for it.
It seeks to cover the entire field, Graduate
and Undergraduate, Academic, Scientific and Professional.
With the co-operation of Yale men everywhere, it has
succeeded in so far commending itself to its constituency
as to be able to say now that it comes under.the eye of a
majority of the entire Yale family.
Tf you are a graduate and are not familiar with the
paper, you are asked to give it a trial.
Undergraduates are reading it more and more each year
as a supplement to their regular journals. |
The subscription price is $2.50 per year.
The office
is at Room 6, White Hall. -The post office address is
Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn.
