YALE ALUMNI
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COACHES NEEDED.
The Story of the Week Shows the
Lack.
The work of the University Eleven
during the past week, while character-
ized in an increasing degree by the en-
couraging snap and energy which has
marked all the practice this Fall, has
failed to show the technical improve-
ment expected at this time. Clearly
this unsatisfactory state of affairs may
be attributed to the lack of sufficient
instructors from which the candidates
have been suffering, since practice be-
gan in New Haven.
The Yale Eleven of 1808 is a typical
one. Captain and players alike appre-
ciate the weak points in their play and
respect the strength of the Elevens
which they are to meet in championship
matches before the close of another
month. But they and their friends are
beginning to ask with not a little anx-
iety, “Where are the graduate coachers
and advisers?” ;
As has been said repeatedly, there is
an average amount of fair material for
the Eleven, which, if properly trained,
will develop into a team fully up to
the Yale standard. But the task of
whipping it into shape is entirely too
much for one man to handle effectively.
This is practically what Captain Cham-
berlin has had to accomplish without
the assistance of a permanent coach
and with only periodic visits from a few
of the more faithful graduates, he has
done remarkably well to bring the team
to its present form. Last year the call
for help met with a hearty response
and as a result a glorious victory closed
the weeks of discouraging work. While
the situation is not in all ways so
serious as at this time last Fall,. few
people seem to realize that five of the
seven places in the line must be filled
by green and inexperienced men.. And
on the success of the efforts to develop
a good, aggressive line, Yale’s chances
of victory in the final games must de-
pend. The present need is of men who
can look into the work of a line, detect
its weaknesses and set about actively, to
remedy them. Scores of them are num-
bered among Yale’s alumni, and it is
to them that Yale is looking at this
time.
The great dearth of heavy men to fill
the vacant positions in the line and
form an effective scrub was somewhat
relieved on Monday and Tuesday, by
the appearance of Allen, 1900 and
Brock, 1000, of last year’s University
Crew, and by the return of Durston,
00 S. who has been kept out of the
game for the past two weeks on account
of studies. As an offset, however, Mc-
Gee has had to take a rest on account
of his injured knee and Walton is still
prevented from playing because of con-
ditions. Marshall and Brown have been
retained at guard, but the center prob-
lem is apparently no nearer solution
than at the beginning of the season.
Cutten was given considerable attention
on Monday and Tuesday, but his work,
though showing some improvement, is
still far from satisfactory. Of the candi-
dates for the vacant tackle position,
Coek, Durston and McGee have been
receiving most of the attention, al-
though Allen has shown un well during
the short time he has been with the
squad. Coy, Hubbell, Sharpe, Schwep-
pe, Slocovich, Eddy and Thomas have
and
all shown themselves men of average
ability on the ends, with the perference
favoring the first three. The candidates
for end appeared last week with large
squares of red cloth sewed on the back
of their jerseys to enable the coachers
to follow their work more closely.
deSaulles went to West Point on
Saturday, to see the Harvard-West
Point game, and during his absence,
Sullivan filled the vacancy at quarter-
back. He and Winter should both de-
velop into satisfactory substitutes for
the position. McBride has been given
an occasional rest in order to let
Dupee, the leading substitute for full-
back, receive the benefit of practice.
Benjamin, Corwin, Townsend, and Mar-
vin have all been doing fast work at
halfback, but Dudley is apparently slow
in regaining his last year’s form. :
G. F. Sanford, J. O. Rodgers, F. S.
Butterworth and Charles Chadwick,
have been at the Field at various times
through the week to assist in the direc-
tion of the play. On Friday, Mr. San-
ford’s enthusiasm got the better of him.
He rushed into the midst of a mass
formation, regardless of the fact that he
was not dressed for playing, and suf-
fered a rupture of the ligaments in his
right arm.
Yale, 6—Newton A. C., 90.
The Yale Team and substitutes left
New Haven on Friday afternoon for
Auburndale, Mass., and remained until
Sunday afternoon, stopping at the
Woodland Park Hotel. The: trip,
primarily arranged to afford a break in
the monotony of early season work, was
a decided success. On Saturday after~
noon a game was played with the New-
ton Athletic Club at Newton Center.
This is the only game in the vicinity
of Boston included in this year’s
schedule, and in spite of the cold,
drizzling rain, a large crowd was pres-
ent. A detailed account of the match
follows. On Saturday evening the Yale
party was entertained at a banquet given
at the Newton Club. Among the
speakers of the evening were Captain
Chamberlin of Yale, Samuel J. Elder,
"73; George L. Huntress, ’70; A. C.
Walworth, ’66, and W. E. Decrow, ’80.
From a Yale standpoint, Saturday’s
game was very unsatisfactory. During
the first half the ball was almost con-
tinually in Yale’s territory and at no
time within Newton’s thirty-five yard
line. This was due in large part, how-
ever, to the fact that Yale did not try
a single punt throughout the game.
Yale’s principal weakness lay in the in-
ability of the center men to check the
charges of the Newton forwards. On
almost every offensive play they were
driven against the backs, breaking up
the interference before it had gotten
fairly started. Yale’s defense also
failed to show the expected strength.
Early in the game a vulnerable point
was found in the left wing of the Yale
line and the bulk of Newton’s attack
was directed against it with considera-
ble success. The substitution of Brown
Cook materially strengthened
Yale’s line in the second half and the
result was an improvement in the play
of the whole Eleven. The Newton
team, while outweighing Yale and in-
cluding some strong individual players,
suffered greatly from a lack of team
work.
The progress of the game was marred
by an unusually large amount of inter-
ference and off-side play in which New-
—— = ROIs oe
THE BAREHEADED HABIT
Has been more or less affected by students and
others in late years.
It is not yet universal.
Until it is, a good share of the best American
People will persist in
THE KNOX HAT HABIT.
ton was the greater offender. Corwin
of Yale received a painful though not
serious injury to his ear during the
first half and was forced to retire.
Cook and Hawes were ruled off for
unnecessary roughness shortly after the
beginning of the second half.
After Yale’s opening kick-off, which
MacAndrews returned, and a series of
short rushes by Yale, the ball changea
hands twice on off-side play without
material advantage to either Eleven.
Finally Newton secured the ball at the
middle of the field on downs and Cur-
tis got around Yale’s left end for a
twenty-yard gain. Line plunges by Mac-
Andrews advanced the ball to Yale’s
twenty-five yard line, where it was lost
on a fumble. On gains by Benjamin
and Townsend, including a twenty yard
end run by the latter, and two penal-
ties inflicted on Newton, Yale advanced
to Newton’s thirty-five yard line, where
the Athletic Club eleven secured the
ball on downs. MacAndrews punted
and after a number of short gains, Yale
was again unable to make the requisite.
five yards. The Newton full-back again
punted, the ball rolling to within twenty
yards of Yale’s goal, where Sullivan
fellonit. The Yale backs had advanced
some thirty yards up the field when
time was called. -
Coy secured the ball on Newton’s
kick-off, which opened the second half
and aided by excellent interference ran
to the opponent’s thirty-five yard line,
Gains by the Yale half-backs advanced
the ball steadily down the field and
Townsend was finally pushed across the
line for the only touchdown of the
game, from which Brown kicked - an
easy goal. Townsend made a thirty-
yard gain on the play following New-
ton’s short kick-off, but after several
short gains netting twenty yards, Yale’s
chances for another touchdown were
spoiled by an off-side play. Because ot
the continuance of off-side play neither
team secured any special advantage dur-
ing the remainder of the*game, and time
was called with the ball in Newton’s
possession on her own thirty-yard line.
The line-up and summary follows:
YALE, POSITION. NEWTON A. C.
BOAINE ee left-end-right.... _. _.... Horton
McGee
Cook fol left-tackle-right ....... 4 oes
Richards igi basnes
Ale t cer left-quard-right = Paul
Richardson._..._.___-- eenter. fn oe. Russell
Marshall: right-guard-left__._..-.___. Bruce
Chamberlin__-___- right-tackle-left __.......... Nash
Coys. 2s. ges gages right-end-left ___._____. Johnson
Sallivan 22c..c .fe 3. quarter-back 22.245... McGuire
Corwin : ) Wadsworth
Townsend t poe ened left-half-right.._.. } Sears
Benjamin)... 4° right-half-left_.......__... Curtis
Mepride-. 2. full-back______.. MacAndrews
Touchdown — Townsend. Goal from touch-
down—Brown. _ Referee--Jos. Upton, Harvard.
Umpire—J. W. Emory, Brown. Linesmen—H. S.
Kimball, Annapolis, and G. S. Stillman, Yale.
Time of halves—Twenty minutes.
Yale 1902, 12—Hillhouse, 0.
In an interesting game at the Yale
Field, on Wednesday, October 12, the
Freshman team defeated the Hillhouse
High School by a score of 12 to o.
The Freshmen played a fast game,
and executed their masses on guard
and tackle in a creditable manner, but
failed to protect their backs sufficiently
on end runs. Burdick, Adams and
Ward made good gains around the ends,
and Rumsey was repeatedly sent be-
tween end and tackle for many yards.
In the first half, Burdick did excellent
work in the line-bucking, to which
the play was mostly confined. All the
backs except Rumsey were changed in
the second half, and the new men did
well.
The line-up and summary follows:
YALE 1902. POSITION. HILLHOUSE,
Gould. co bts left-end-right 9. Osborn
tad Bese left-tackle-right.._Kunzig (Yale)
MASOOD. eek left-guard-right _._______- Porter
s ;
Sasi sl t ph taint wae Center ci eis Adams
Hooker. 3ite.*: right-guard-left __........-: Morse
Ferguson_.____. right-tackle-left _......._.. J. Hart
reich t SB cts apn right-end-left ;- 2: 0°. Beele
wee t one SE quarter-back._______ Chamberlain
oe I pis eg left-half-right __.......-- R. Hart
Adams
Granberry }-______ right-half-left _..........- Noyes
Lear
RANG AG Ns fullsback=. veo Price
Score—Yale 1902, 12 : Hillhouse H.S.,0. ‘Touch-
downs, Adams. Ward. Goals from touchdowns,
Rumsey (2). Umpire, Mr. Cowles. Referee, Mr.
«. deSaulles. Linemen, Messrs. Smith and Mead.
Time of halves, fifteen minutes,
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Yale 1902, 0—Lawrenceville, 0.
The Freshman Football Team played
the Lawrenceville School on Saturday,
October 11, at Lawrenceville. The
game was evenly contested throughout
and when time was called neither team
had succeeded in scoring.
Yale’s line was very weak and was
completely outplayed by the Lawrence-
ville forwards. The Yale backs played
well individually, but there was an abso-
lute lack of team play. Good tackling
alone saved the Freshmen from defeat.
The Freshmen lined up as follows:
Gould, 1. e.; Murphy and Swan, 1. t.;
Bladgen, 1. g.; Sherman, c.; Hooker,
ti. B55 Pereuson, 1; ts Abbott, 1+. ¢:
Fantke, -gb.;. Burdick, 1... b.;. Hall,
r. h. b.; Rumsey, f. b.
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Athietic Calendar.
Saturday, October 22.—Yale-Carlisle
Indian School game at New Haven.
Tuesday, October 25.—Intercollegiate
Golf Tournament at Ardsley.
Saturday, October 29.—Yale-West
Point game at West Point, N. Y. Fall
track games at New Haven.
Saturday, November 5.—Yale-Chi-
cago Athletic Club game at New Haven.
Saturday, November 12.—Yale-Prince-
ton game at Princeton.
Saturday, November 19.—Yale-Har-
vard game at New Haven.
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