The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-18
ABOUT YALE'S new POLICY


Many Radical Changes Possible-Candi.
dates to Report Mt Yale Field Septem.
Der Io-"Billyn Bull to Take Charge OF
the Backs and slim" Robinson to bt
| Trainer.
The time is now rapidly approaching
when the candidates for the Yale foot
! ball team will be called together. In
another short fortnight Yale field will
| once more resound with the tread of
running feet and the thud of falling
bodies, and almost before one is aware
of it the football season at Yale will
be on
Without a doubt the season thus
opened will prove one of the most i'm
portant in every respect in the history
of Yale. Smarting under the crushing
defeats of the year, in football and 9TH
er branches of athletics. undergraduates
and alumni are determined to create
complete reviva! in Yale athletics.
What new policy will be inaugurated
Is at present but a matter OF conjecture
The conferences between the recognized
leaders in Yale's athletics have been
many and frequent, but secret. Specu-
lation has been rife ever since the foot
ball defeat of last year as to what
would be done. 1t was stirred up afresh
by the loss of the boat race, and 1t has
not been killed by the failure of the
Yale athletes to score point in the in
ternational contest. And to this is add
ed the universal curiosity as to the poll
icy to be inaugurated by President
DWight's successor, Arthur T. Hadley.
But aside from this nothing has really
occurred different from the old estab-
lished policy of Yale.
That something important will occur
is reasonable to suppose. 1t is appar-
ent even to the uninitiated that the
Yale of to-day is not the Yale that it
used to be. Never before has Yale fail
ed so utterly in athletics as this year;
never before has so much interference
by the alumni been evident; and never
before have Yale's affairs attracted
such widespread interest. The cause of
these crushing defeats is not manifest,
although it has been limited at quite
freely.
The nearest approach to plain speak
ing and reaching the root of the trouble
was the outspoken sentiments of a
prominent leader in athletics at a con-
ference held in this city some months
ago. THE pull system he said, impul-
svely, lis at the bottom of it ALL" In
further remarks he showed that he I'M
derstood perfectly that rich men'se sons
at Yale don't make the best athletes, nor
are the winning teams turned out by
captains who are influenced by these
considerations. His utterances We're
not intended to be repeated and so fail
ed in the value they might otherwise
have had, but it was evident al the
time that he was not alone in his way
of thinking,
1t Is this question, undoubtedly, that
has been debated so fully by coaches
and athletic leaders at Yale during the
summer months, and it is therefore safe
to assume that a different system will
prevail after this season.,
Football will be the first to receive at
tention. The question of head coach Is
still undecided, but it is looked upon as
certain that there will be one. The an
nouncement has just been made that |
veteran Jim" Robinson has been APP
pointed athletic trainer, and that Yale |
old halfback Billy" Bull has been ee-
lected to take full charge of the candi- !
dates for positions back of the line. |
Both are valuable men, well fitted for
the positions.
The first call for candidates will be |
issued in a very short time, and on
SEPTEMBER 10 thirty of the old players
Will assemble at the field for the early
practice. They will work until college |
opens, when they will be reinforced by |
other candidates who will be called out
AS is known Captain Mcbride has done |
away with summer practice entirely this
summer, although most Of the old men
we're given footballs for Individual prac-
lice, This action has been commended /
by some and criticised by others, as it
1as always been Yales policy to hold |
summer practice. It's ACCESSIBILITY re-
mains to be seen in the spirit which the
men put into their work
The material for a strong eleven this
year is excellent, although some of the
,ldeSt ana best men have gradua ted. |
Percy Rockefeller was in New
1aven Wednesday on business and ex-
pressed himself as more than hopeful
1t the outlook. Among the men avail
'be are the following who played in
he championship games last fall: Cut
en-, NJ. V. Ely, r. G.. Schweppe, G. n.
1ubbell, M. L. Mcbride, C. T. Dudley,
(. Townsend, F. G. Brown, Stillman
md Coy.
Other likely candidates are Auchin-
oss 100, Fincke '01S, ]. B. Hart '02, J. II.
Wear '0l, Cunha '01, Walden 'O1, Ord
way 90 Phillips 90, Shattuck 90. Whit
ley 'OOS., Sharpe M, s., Wallace O1,
>oyes '01, Dupee '01, Hall '01S, Adams
Of, Thomas '0l, Richardson '01
WEDDING YESTERDAY.
Philip Little and Miss Kate Flaherty were
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