The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-03
YALE MANAGERS RETICENT
WE'LL NOT DISCUSS FUTURE PLANS
 FOR THE BIC ELEVEN.


 --Cadwalader Is to Play Center-Walter Camp Invited to Assist in the Coaching His Opinion of the Big Teams from Har- per's Weekly
 Those in authority are generally very reticent as to the workings of the af- fairs which they have in charge. Such seems to be the policy of the present Yale management. They are not prone 10 divulge anything which will any way ture plans prepared for the Varsity eleven.
 This silence for the past few days has been remarkable. It has been ex- ceedingly hard work to learn anything regarding the system of training to be used for the rest of the present season. Whether the old style of play is to be continued, or whether new tactics are to be adopted and new plays to be de- veloped, remains to be seen.
 The necessity of taking steps for the strengthening of the defensive work is apparent to every one. No one realizes this fact any more than do the coaches, and all efforts this week will be con- centrated for the accomplishment of that feature of the teams work
 It was certainly very wise move for the management to invite the co-opera- tion of Walter Camp in coaching for the rest of the season. MT. Camp and Coach Butterworth held conference at the New Haven house yesterday, and the former has decided to devote all of his spare time to the work of the eleven.
 This news will be received with much joy by all interested in Yale's team. The large experience of MT. Camp in football will be of very great advan- tage at this extremely critical period of the present season. His ability as coach and advisor is well known to all.
 Yesterdays practice was necessarily curtailed because of the steady down. pour of rain Cutten, the big center, who has been worked very hard all sea- son, and peculiarly unfortunate at the same time, had his knee so badly in- jured that his appearance on the field any more this season cannot be depend ed upon
 Big Cadwalader has rapidly recover ed from his recent injuries and will don his football togs not later than Thurs day. He will be tried at center. This is the position which he played on the Lawrenceville school team, and is con- seuuently no novice. Post will also be tried there.
 It is rumored that the game with the Chicago Athletic association team which is scheduled for Saturday at Yale field, has been cancelled. This action it is stated, was taken because of the fear of some of the men being injured so that their playing in the Harvard and Princeton games would be impossi- ble.
 This weeks number of Harper's Weekly has a two-column article from the pen of Walter Camp. It is devoted in the main to the seasons work of the Yale team and comparison of it's worl with that of the other big teams. He speaks as follows:
 Yale, like Harvard, is behind in the development of fast concentrated. weight plays, so that their match vii be more equal contest, although here on the other hand, I do not see how Yale's defence can be made good enough to hold Harvard. Her offen- sive play will be better in execution but not enough of the modern type to go through Harvard's line.
 With no game ahead for the following Wednesday, Yale should have taken advantage of the opportunity the Car lisle game offered for securing the best kind of practice for her team. Instead of short halves of twenty minutes, thir- ty minute periods at least, and per haps still more wisely, the regulation half of thirty-five minutes, should have been taken. Anything short of the al lotted full time can only be by the con- sent of both teams, and either captain can, previous to match refuse tc shorten the halves laid down by rule Then, too, the Indians should hardly have objected, as both last year and this their best game was played in the second half. There is no training that can do the raw recruits of the Yale eleven half the good that every five minutes of hard-fought game pounds into them. It is experience, and, ir football, how much she teaches!
 There was more than one year wher the Pennsylvania game proved the making of the Yale team, and although many Ol ILG pldy eIS dII hot d lC" ol the coaches cried out against the thrice hard games, Yale never was better thar when she had three on her hands, pro- yided the time between was long enough for recuperation. Yale lacks experience this year. The art of de- fence can alone be mastered through the education acquired in games witf outside and unknown organizations tho atro1 ger the better.
 Had it not been for the Brown game Yale would have given up much more { ground to Carlisle. The Cornell game was worth a mint to Princeton. Las years Lafayette game taught Penn. x sylvania more than week of practice Last years Princeton game made ot < Harvard formidable foes for Pennsyl. yania. If on Saturday Yale could have 2 taken Harvard's place and played Cor nell, while the Cambridge men rested E it would be points in favor of Yale's F chances for the 18th. The great trou ble is that coaches have grown fearfu E of the risks of defeat, and by exhibiting that fear have made their charges equally timid, and correspondingly a more easy for opposing teams to drive E into a manic I have seen mah-sounf