The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-27
THE GRIDIRON.
Contemplate Tactics Were Resort
ed to by Yaie-At Best, Football
is u Brutal Sport.

New York. Nov. 26-A dispatch from
Boston to the World says:
Dr. w. A. Brooks, Harvard's chief
coacher, is intensely anxious over what
he considers the contemplate tactics re-
sorted to by the Yale team to disable
Harvard's players in Saturdays game.
He has informed the Yale management
that he will not act as referee in the
fale-Prlnceton game next Thursday. He
says he is so thoroughly prejudiced
against Yale that he cannot consistently
act as a judge of her play.
Frank Hinkey's act in jumping on
WrightinSton when he was lying on the
ground and not trying to move was the
most brutal thing that | ever saw on
the football field,'' he said. There was
absolutely no excuse for it,. Hinkey
should have been disqualified Immediate
ly.
Mr. Moffitt the umpire, told me he
saw the play but did not notice who the
offender was. While / do not wish to
crltieise Mr.. Moffitt, unjustly, must say
qualifying the Yale captain, for there
were only two men near Wrightington t
the time and nobody else had any diff
Guilty in identifying the players:
IF Mr.. MofHtt had done his duty in
that instance, there would have been no
more unnecessary roughness during the
game.
Towards the latter part of the game
do not attempt to. excuse their action
in doing so. They should not have done
it, but the fact remains that If they had
not adopted Yale's tactics there would
not have been a Harvard player left.
Yale set the pace and Harvard was fore
ed to follow"
DR.. Brooks was asked to give his opin-
ion of Referee Boviand's decision against
Harvard's first touch down, Immediately
{ after FairchiIds close miss of the goal,
and his refusal to allow the goal from
the field just at the end of the game.
He replied that he knew of no rule that
would justify his decision. Personally
he considered them very unjust. There
is no court of appeal, so it does no good
to protest and the Harvard coachers are
not using those decisions as the basis for
an excuse for Harvadr's defeat, although
personally they feel that Harvard was
fairly entitled to thirteen points which
We're: Two touch downs and goal from
the field.
But they are outspoken in their con-
demnation of Yale's rough playing, and
especially Captain Hinkey's work.
Wrightington' collar bone is not frac-
tured but there is a bad dislocation which
if anything, is worse than a simple frac-
ture. Neither he nor Charley Brewer
nor Hallowell will be able to play il
| the game against the University of Penn
| sylvania. HaflowelFs nose is broken anc
| Brewers ankle is in a very bad condt
| ton. Captain Emmons may be able tC
play next Thursday. but it is very doubt
full
DR. Brooks said that the coachers felt
deeply indebted to Mr.. Deland for his
assistance in perfecting HarTard's ag
| tics which has frequently been alluded to
were productive of many gains for Har
ward, and there were others that wert
| even better and which would have added
to the interest of the game, if Brewer
and Wrightington had not been disabled
! Mr.. Lathrop's new system of training
| is also heartily endorsed by the coachers
Harvard never sent out a team in better
physical cordition. barring those two
or three who had met with accidents
and this fl ct was apparent at the close
! of the game when the Harvard men were
strong and aggressive. The Harvard
team will rest quietly at Auburndale unit
! Wednesday, when they start for Pennsyl
va