New-York tribune., 1901-08-25
YALE'S FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
ALMOST AN ENTIRE NEW TEAM TO BE
CHoSEN-GOOD MATERIAL.

New-Haven Conn, Aug. "A (SpeciaD.-A month
to-day the Yale football season OF 1901 will be
under way. Captain Charles Gould sent out his
orders for the first round up OF candidates this
week, and these will meet at Yale Field on
the afternoon Of September 2s. It is possible that
the will several days previous TO this.
but Captain Gould has not yet decided the exact
date when practice will begin.
With Princeton bending every energy this year
to beat Yale at the annual game. to be played at
Yale Field the latter part of November. and Har-
wards eagerncss to retrieve the defeat OF last fall
at the hands Of the Eli players, Yale has a pro-
gramme before her that will require her best ef-
forts uphold her championship. The season
starts out with Yale the defensive.
Yale suffers heavv losses by graduation. OF the
twelve who carried off the honorS on every
field on which the blue played last season ten
leave college. Yale's great eleven made up OF
Could left end; Blooner, left tackle; Brown, left
guard Olcott centre: Sheldon. right guard; Still
man. right tackle; Coy. right end; Wear and
FinCke quarterbacks Ftncke and Sharpe, left halr-
backs Chadwick, right hafback. and Perry Hale,
fullbaCk. OF these men, Bloomer has been dropped
and has been unable 10 resume his place in col
lese Hale has withdrawn from the postgraduate
school, Sharpe has disqualified himself by coach
ing preparatory school teams, and Brown Olcott,
Stillman. Coy Wear and Fncke have been grad
uated. The only left from last years team
who played in the big games and so could be con-
siiered members OF the team. Captain Gould.
left end; Sheldon right guard. and Chadwick right
half
There is a good chance. however that there will
be more than enough first class players TO go
around Captain Gould viii keep his Old place at
left end, and the other end will go 10 Rafferty,.
MaVse "oIk was OF a phenomenal oTder I4St year;
anu anu VINO was pronounced tAen 70 De coming emu
rush Rafferty, may prove an abler end than Coy
left open but several FIRST class men Will try for
them. Hamn fought Bloomer for left tackle up
1'rt HIGsry $50 I8I ms ms ffI ii5 r,ost 6 oF
a rafD he
VIII take one tackle. and either Weymouth or
appear Weymouth was captain of the freshman
crew last spring and is a veteran football player.
two years. Johnson is one~of the strongest men In
college and while he has not played t9GIb3a @ , ex,
up strong line game.
CANDIDATES FOR THE LINE.
At guard. the heaviest loss TO the team comes in
the retirement of Gordon Brown. for three years
guard and captain last year There is no first class
material to take his place. unless ONeill of last
years freshman team, Goss proves capable At
right guard Dick" Sheldon will play again.
Centre will lose Olcott. sturdy player, though
never of remarkable ability. Last years suesti-
tHte centre Holt Will pEo9apiy MAKE m tLe ne @@ P1aes S
even better than OCott. and II he plays the place
II is behind the line this fall that Yale has the
best assortment of material. While the losses
unusual strength and ability. Who will make
quarter is problem. Wear took care of the snap
the bis games simply because he had acquired a
bad habit of mufhng the catch from a punt. He
was replaced by Fincke They both have now left
college Wiusow to be good man Tor
quarter but ne is big for the place. and would
/ make a better man further down the field Hart IS
n good quarter. but lacks generalishp qualities.
while OF the other men De SSulIes and Morris are
neither of them big enough, though both are good
players. Quarter viii remain open until several
weeks after the season begins.
CHADWICK WILL PLAY AGAIN.
For haIfbacks. Chadwick returns TO take one Of
the positions For the other there several pos
sibuties WHhelmi played a fast game last year,
as did Easton. Ward and Wander PoeL new
man who viii Join the halfoacks will be Cornelius
Dalv who enters this fan. and who Of
Sanford's star Columbia kckers last year while at
Branford Winslow will also be considered At
funback there is expectation that any one will
be found who will eclipse Perry Hale, who was by
all odds the best fullback Yale had had since the
days of Butterworth. Hyde of last year. Will try
for this position, will Wlhelni, while a new
man appears in Weymouth. who may either be
tried at tackle or fulback.