New-York tribune., 1898-10-02
On THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
COMMENT AND CRITICISM ON THE WORK
AT YALE. PRINCETON. HARVARD.
pENNSYIVANIA AND CORNELL.

have no head coach this season; also that captain
Chamberln and his advisers have been much per-
rlexed where TO obtain trainer for the men 10
,ske the place Of Keene Fitzpatrick. who brought
un the players last year into such superb cond-
,ion Despite these announcements. Yale gradu-
a,es are displaying great amount of anxiety
over the matter. for they quite rightly feel that
enough OF Yale's old-,ime veterans will rally TO
Cantain Chamberlin's support to insure frst-class
coaching and plenty of II, IL there were any one
danger more than another that would menace any
eloyon in the position that Yale's team is to-day
=. vould be overconhdence. II would be only nat
ursl for a team. strong. agile flushed with victory
and with numbers fairly whole TO expect that
yic,orv this year would come without great labor
yale's teams have however. a habit OF seldom get
,,nr overconadent and there is no indication up
% date that they realize anything but the fact that
,hcv must work long and hard. despite their OBJ
,iously brilliant prospects
A spot however that is giving Captain Cham
berlin q bad quarter of an hour every day Is the
keystone Of the whole arch. namely. the work Of
osn,re rush. The doughty Cadwalader has gone.
no. 10 return and has left a 'arge void IN the
middle Of the line The Rev. Mr. Cutten. OF the
Theoloeical School, is trying 10 AL up the hole.
His spirit Is willing. but tho flesh Is weaker than
should be Yale centre-rush's. II will be tough
lob 10 mould Cutten into the man that Cadwalader
vas and / shall he greatly mistaken If do not see
both Harvard and Princeton Try 10 batter down a
hole In the middle OF the blue line Few people
realize the importance Of the centre position ana
the capabilities that centre rush has for good or
for evil for his team Fortunately enough. Cutten,
~ he finally is put at centre. will be hanked prob
.blv bv a pair Of strong guards Yale has been
consistently strong in her guards for years past.
and generally manages 70 have couple or huge
and usty youngsters developing for those places.
Rrovn who Il must he confessed was 'dahdy
last year at right guard. will be moved over 10
the other side so TO strengthen the left Wig
~ the line while Andrews possibly Marshall
will III into right guard Neither Of these men are
veterans in the Yale sense Of the WORD. but either
will i'll tho bill especially as he Will be supported
on the right by Captain ChamberliA As 10 the
end positions. there has been some wringhg oil
hands over the fact that neither Hall nor Hazen
&c hack But Hinkey perhaps the best end rush
that Yale has ever produced. did not have lot OF
Vale men with him at Tonawanda last summer
FOR nothing There several feet end-rushers
who have had nstilled In them the rudiments or
their positions by the great Hinkey. and who are
already showing it in the practice on the Yale
field The men who have done the best work thus
,ar are Schweppe. Coy and also SlocOvltch who
las, year was considered hrst-rate material I
hardly expect 10 pair OF ends equal TO those
that Yale had last year. but the positions VIII pe
cared for all right. Captain Chamberhn Will be a
tower Of strength at right tackle while for left
tackle Durston has. in the preliminary practice.
heen showing UP superbly. II is declared that
Sullivan will play quarter back, and that the Yale
brilliant quarter back OF last year. De Saulles viii
go 10 half-back l can't help thinking that this
will he a mistake Yale has plenty Of frst-rate
balf-back material. while a quarterback who can
run the team as De Saules did last year IS not to
be shifted about lightly. If. however, De Saulles
IS put at half his running mate VIII probably be
Corwin or Dudley and Benjamin, who played a
pretty steady though not brilliant game at half
all last year may be left out In the cold. Al full-
back Mcbride heavier stronger and cooler than
LII. ft.r slrQiT Tqh
A feature that has evidently been aimed at in the
Yale style OF play this year is drop goal-kickng,
about all the backs taking a try at IT. as well as
Captain Chamberlin BILLY" Bull, who Is the best
drop kicker Yale ever had. is going to he In New
Haven most Of the fall. studying medicine and
that is why some OF the Yale backs will have an
unusual opportunity for acquiring the art. on the
whole. Yaies chances at this time OF the year
seem better than Princeton's or Harvards. for a
veteran team good new material, right methods
and hard work must count for something, and
Yale has all these In addition. she will have the
advantage Of playing her last and perhaps most
important game. that with Harvard on her home
grounds
IN THE FIGHTING LINE AT PRINCETON.
Several Of Prnceton's football men have heen
fighting for their country and not all OF them have
yot returned 10 college. but there are enough back
90 say that there Is going TO be a strong fighting
line of Princeton rusheTs this There Is
abroad al Old Nassau spirit Of energy and ac-
tvity that augurs well for the outcome OF the
seasons work Captain Hillebrand seems to nave
inspired his men with moro zest and earnestness
than they have shown for some time. Last season
Princeton had. up to fortnight before the Yale
game a team that played in championship form.
though at times throughout the season II did seem
difficult TO get out Of the men all the work that
they were capable Of In the last two weeks OF
the season Princeton's team down badly. ow-
cf ord III a
too much OF It. Captain Hillebrand and his ad-
visers say that history Is not going 10 repeat Itself
and that Old mistakes are 70 be avoided. II may
be remembered that in the fall of 1883 nearly ten
years ago. Princeton under Captain Poe had a
magnificent team that from both Yale and
Harvard CAPTAIN Poe in command the next
season. as we'll but his team was badly over
whelmed by Yale In like manner two years ago
Princeton had team that fairly showed Yale un-
der but last year with line OF veterans as
nucleus the Princeton men succumbed 10 the blue
line. Princeton's men declare that there were GER
tain mistakes made nine years ago and made last
year that were exactly similar. and they intend
that those mistakes shall never again occur
In addition then. to the advantages that Prince
ton is going TO have this year in the hammer-and-
tongs way in which she is going at the work. there
IS the fact that the New-Jersey college men haze
20 play only one fierce game. and they can there
fore train throughout the season with single end
in view. This Is an immense advantage. ana frlhce-
ton should 10 It that she gains 10 the full the
importance that belongs to 1t. The contest with
Yale comes early in the season, November y. ana
from this time 20 the date mentioned Princeton
can. without let or hindrance pursue a steady on
ward pocy that ought to cuninate on the da'e
Of the game in magnhcenty trained players. An
other advantage that Princeton Will have VIII be
20 meet her old antagonist at Princeton where a
Yale and Princeton game Of football has not been
fought out since away back in the eighties
As ~ riol "a Princeton
has hardly vet had chance to show what L can
do but there seems to he no lack Of hard-headed'
eager men who are enthusiastic to gain famous
name at Old Nassau. From last accounts the