THE WEEK IN FOOTBALL.
Who Will Kick?—A Great Amount
of Coaching Needed in the Line.
The last week in football has shown
some development in team work. In-,
terference, in particular, was better in
Saturday’s game. The line, however,
made up almost entirely of green mate-
rial, is very far from being a unit 1n its:
action in any particular play. There
have been constant shifts which have
operated against such a result, but
there will have to be a very fast devel-
opment in this line to put the team
in a form to make a good showing at
either of the big games. A great deal
more line coaching will be necessary
from now on, to do this part of the
work well. Mr. Butterworth and Mr.
Hinkey, with assistance one day last
week from Mr. Wallace, ’89, have ac-
complished a good deal, but the old
plan of a coach, who was expert in his
particular place, for every position on
the team, is apparently the only one
that will round it into form.
The Williams game gave a little
chance for comparison with Harvard.
The result is in one way encouraging,
and, in another, discouraging to Yale
men. The: Williams men were very
emphatic in saying that the Yale play
was much more snappy than that of
Harvard. They also said that Yale’s
defense was not nearly as_ reliable.
The increased score of Yale does not
show superiority, for the Williams men
was weakened by the loss of three of
her best men, all of whom played in
the Harvard game.
ABUNDANT MATERIAL.
There is certainly a comparative
abundance of material. Mr. Cook,
who thinks the football field a very
good chance to pick out good shell
motive power, said, as he looked along
the side lines at the: Amherst game,
that he never saw as much athletic
material together in Yale before. In
addition to this, the same hard work
and enthusiastic spirit have character-
ized the play and the general attitude
of the College. A just criticism of the
game is, that it has been unnecessarily
rough. The practice has developed
several individual scraps, and in the
Amherst game the Yale men were cer-
tainly guilty of some rough, mean
work. The zeal of some players, which
carries them to this unfortunate ex-
trem, will have to be checked if Yale is
either to preserve a good reputation or
to play the best football.
The use of the new tackling machine
is perhaps sufficiently described in the
cuts given elsewhere, which show this
uncanny mechanical creation at two
stages in the tackling process. The
men are generally put through two or
three rounds of this dummy tackling
before the practice and this is followed
by work in getting down the field on
kicking. The total practice lasts for
an hour and a half or two hours.
There has been a good deal of hot
weather and the big men have lost
much flesh.
Up to early this week, the most reli-
able candidate for center remained in-
capacitated on account of his injured
knee, but it was not thought it would
be a serious one. Sheldon, a very ex-
cellent candidate for guard, who was
supposed ‘to be in good condition
| again, was not well enough to warrant
his playing last week. He is trying it
again this week. His trouble seems to
be malaria. Benjamin is still on the
side lines. Captain Rodgers has played
only a few minutes at a time. He does
not seem to experience any bad effects
from the work.
Hazen, the very excellent second
baseman of last year’s nine, and a for-
mer substitute, reappeared at end last
week and did well. His tackling was
good and he showed headwork in the
interference. Hall is considerably
more stocky and strong than last year
and continues to play a fast, hard game.
He is subject to the fault of temper
above stated and was responsible, at
least partly, for a very unpleasant inci-
dent in the Williams game.
Besides Hazen and Hall, who are
both of fair avoirdupois, Slocovitch is
a candidate for end whose physique is
excellent. He has certainly done some
good work and will bear watching,
YW Adar) 6 AiO tee
Dudley and Warren are lively, but light.
Conner, of last year’s eleven, hurt his
shoulder again last week. It is hard
to predict about him.
THE GUARDS.
At guards, Cadwalader and Brown
have done the best work of the week.
At different practice each has been
opposite Chadwick of last year’s eleven,
and, on the whole, neither has suffered
from the comparison. With Sheldon
also in this competition, it is quite
impossible to predict who will fill these
places. Cadwalader is doing better of-
fensive work than at the first part of
the season, but doesn’t show much real
Heffelfingerism yet. He broke his
good record at goal kicking by making
two bad slips in the Williams game.
Let any judgments about tackles go
for the present. It is only proper to
record the fact that that point is not
very strong. When Rodgers gets into
form, one side of the line ought to be
well taken care of. It does seem as if,
between Allen, Marshall, Post, Dur-
ston and one or two other possibilities
of great weight and strength, some-
thing good ought to come for the
other side. This is not speaking by
the card, but it is possible that Cham-
berlin will be put in there. His play
back of the line has been disappointing,
as he starts very slowly.
The quarters are lively, at any rate,
and keep the team going with a rush.
Ely’s injury is a bad one and will prob-
ably remove him from the list of possi-
bilities. DeSaulles, Sullivan and Stod-
dard have all been tried the past week,
with DeSaulles more favorably con-
sidered than either of the other two.
If Kiefer and Corwin keep up the
game they have started, both should be
very excellent light running half-backs.
Kiefer did some unusually pretty work
in the Williams game. Corwin did not
keep up his record there. The former
is his superior in his use of interfer-
ence. Corwin plays with a great rush
and gets out of tangles well, but dis-
penses with his interference quite too
early. Hine has reappeared back. of
the line and is playing in. something
like the style with which. he started
last year and which he did not keep up.
McBride is pretty good at defense,
but who is going to do the kicking?
With Baird and Wheeler both back of
the line at Princeton, this becomes a
very important question at this seat of
learning. :
TWO LATE CHANGES.
The practice of Monday and Tues-
day developed two important changes.
Burr Chamberlin, the center of last
year’s team, who has been playing be-
hind the line this season, was given a,
trial at end and the result was highly
gratifying to the coaches. Charles
Chadwick, who has heretofore always
played guard, was put in at center on
Tuesday and. played a strong game.
YALE 32—-WILLIAMS O.
Yale played her fourth game on Sat-
urday, at New Haven, against the Wil-
liams College eleven and in the two
halves of twenty and fifteen minutes
each, ran up a score of thirty-two
points. The playing of the Yale eleven
was marked by plenty of dash and the
team work was fairly good, consider-
ing the short time the candidates have
been in the field. The Williams line
was weak and Yale’s backs went
through at will. A large number of
gains were also ‘made around the ends,
Kiefer’s runs being a feature of the
game. Chadwell at end played a
strong game for Williams.
The line-up follows:—
YALE WILLIAMS
raven, 1635. eee we sf. €., Utter
PIG Se CRC ia eee: r.e., Risley
Rodgere 1. tice As at, ti, DeCamp
Post, I. t.
Cadwalader, boise, tes Lotz
aoe ps EES eo ae ease vos Bieler
POW fe ees ie.7* Baack
Chadwick, r. g. . ra
AUCH, Fite. s,s: sos ers eck t, Simons
Hale, r. t.
Dudley, The ee oe l.e., Chadwell
Slocovitch, r. e.
Hore T-<.
Boeuies. 41.0)... csc .b., A. Davi
Stoddard, q. b. 2 gee:
Sullivan, q. b.
Kisiery 1 N.S ee b., Branch
Marvin, 1. h. b.
WHREKLY
Beeeyit?. 69 Th Dos bare va oe l.h. b., Seeley
Seamieeli: 1. Ho. cas 3 ss l.h. b., Williams
mecprde, 1. Bcc. 52 «et f.b., Denman
Hine, f. b.
Referee, L. Hinkey; umpire, B.
Corwin 2,
goals from
Chamberlin; touchdowns,
Hine 2, McBride, Kiefer;
touchdown, Cadwalader, 4.
YALE I8—AMHERST 0.
The University football team de-
feated Amherst on Wednesday, Octo-
ber 6, at New Haven by a score of 18
to o. The game was loosely played
and rather uninteresting to spectators
owing to the number of delays, occa-
sioned by various causes. The tackling
of Durston, the running of Corwin and
the work of McBride and Brown were
the points in Yale’s game worthy of
mention. Griffin, Whitney and Valen-
tine did the best work for Amherst.
The line-up:
YALE AMHERST
Seley 1 yi eG 4G r.e., Howard
Hall, l.e.
TOst, 47 See r.t., Elam
Cadwalader, 1. g.......; r.g., F. Dudley
mecPariand. ©)... c., Winslow
Brown, -f:2.655 2. 5 l. g., Fosdick
Palen: 1.¢ 6666 oo as 1]. t., G. Dudley
Durston, r. t. ;
COANEr; fT, GAs eek l.e., Valentine
Eddy, r. e.
PeSatlies; a: oss. 5 52s q. b.,° Pratt
Sullivan, q. b. ?
Csmore,. Tt. h. bess: es l.h. b., Kendall
Auchincloss, r. h. b.
Marvin,.r. h. b.
Kiefer. a. hy D.: . ce tats Bed. Whitney.-
Corwin, ol: i ).i wf. ht b., Godfrey
We Brides 200.5 655.5 55 eS {. b., -Griffin
Touchdowns, McBride 2, Marvin;
goals from touchdown, Cadwalader
3; referee, Burr Chamberlin; umpire,
Louis Hinkey.
YALE IQOI, 6—WILLISTON, 4.
The Freshman football team won the
first game played this season, from
Williston Academy, at Easthampton
Saturday. There was a notable lack
of team work among the Freshmen,
but Atkinson, Thompson and Coy dis-
tinguished themselves by individual
play. The line-up:
IQOI 6 WILLISTON
Van Wickien. “1. €.... 2s. s-: r.e., Kuhn —
Wear, l. e.
payne, Lt... a aoe Fre rt. Pond
Atkinson, 1. t.
7 DOMDSON, 212 eR r.g., O'Neil
A. voune, 1g:
PHCRSON, Coo, ca a .c., Nelson
MIChavasones ree ieasi ee ee l. g., Steele
Mewpott, tts 8 1. t., Griswold
COVE -t. C.) eee ey Sas So l.e, Nutting
Weallacé, acbu si os, fans qd: ba tenetis
Wite;.A Moaees ce. r; hib.f Thomas
Sharkey, fb... 24s Eehe D. alae Send
DeGoyer, r. h. b.
eaewichell, of Bs fe as ek f.b., Moulton
Touchdowns, Sharkey, Curtis; goal
from touchdown, Twichell.
Better Team Work at
Princeton.
[Correspondence of THE WEEKLY.]
Princeton, Oct. 9.—Quite a little pro-
gress has been made in the develop-
ment of the football team at Princeton
during the past week. In the play of
the last few days there has been some
semblance of team work and more life
and snap. Despite the tendency of a
team victorious in the previous season:
to become somewhat indifferent in its
work the following year, most of the
men are indeed showing the right sort
of spirit. But not a man on the team
is showing his last year’s form. The
Rutgers game convinced the Captain
and Soachers that something must be
done at once towards developing some
scheme of systematic team work.
Nearly all the gains made in that game
were almost entirely the results of indi-
vidual efforts.
What has been most pleasing in the
practice of the past week has been the
apparent increase in the strength of the
second, or scrub, eleven, thanks to
some very careful coaching. So much
depends upon the strength of the scrub
team that there will be no let-up in the
attempts to develop it.
Considerable time has also been
spent this week in signal practice, and
in developing new formations. The
ends-back play will again be used this
year, and efforts are being made to se-
cure for it greater immunity from being
easily broken up. New methods of
protecting the full-back on a punt are
also being developed, as is also a some-
THE “BATWING.”
It’s a mighty good tie. The old
Butterfly and the Rugby ties were
criticized by many for an apparent
scantiness. The Batwing gives 4
good, generous bow.
When in England this summer, Mr.
Chase picked up some beautiful
stuff for these, and for other ties,
and it would be worth a Yale
man’s while to take a look at them,
or to send for samples.
CHASE & CO.,
NEW HAVEN HOUSE BLOCK.
Full-grown Men
Re
-THE SUN.
what modified form of drop-kicking.
All of these plays, however, are still in
the experimental stage.
Princeton’s line is practically decided
upon, with the possible exception of
left-end; ‘where Lathrope and Creigh
are fighting it out. Neither of them
are men of Brokaw’s football ability.
The rest of the line will probably be:
Holt, left-tackle; Crowdis, left-guard;
Booth, center-rush; Armstrong, right-
guard; Hiullebrand, right-tackle; and
Cochran, right-end. Booth and Holt
are new men. Holt was a guard on the
Harvard Ninety-Five team, and made a
fine record on last year’s scrub team.
It was an experiment to move him to a
tackle position, but his work so far has
been. quite satisfactory
Back of the line, Wheeler and Ayers
are fighting it out for full-back. Ayers
has developed wonderfully of late. He
_ punts well, but is entirely too slow in
all of his movements. Wheeler is kick-
ing goals from the field with unusual
facility. Baird ig being given a thor-
ough trial at quarter-back. He is cool,
heady, knows the game, and is strong
in returning punts and kick-offs. Ban-
nard and Kelly are again candidates for
their old positions of half-backs.
Neither has shown up in good shape
this ear, Kelly having been quite sick
for several days past. Reiter has plenty
of snap and liveliness, while he is very
skillful in keeping his feet after being
tackled
The practice from now on will be
hard, two halves of increasing length
being played every day. The game
with the Carlisle Indians next Satur-
day will be the first real test of the
team’s ability.
THE ANNAPOLIS GAME.
The game with Annapolis on Sat-
urday, in which Princeton won by the
score of 28—o, disclosed one fact of
considerable importance, namely, that
‘Princeton is weak at the position of
center rush, and that that weakness
must be speedily remedied. Annapolis
had a center weighing only a hundred
and fifty-two pounds, and yet his work
was of such an aggressive character as
to seriously disconcert Booth. Booth
has never been regarded as a star cen-
ter, but his work Saturday was of such
an inferior nature as to make Captain
Cochran ponder as to whether he had
there the best man available for the
position. In that game the backs were
very slow in starting. They, also.
will be given a considerable amount o:
- attention during the coming week.